Oxford Insight History has been developed specifically to support the implementation of the NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. It provides a complete teaching and learning program for Stages 4 and 5 to suit your classroom across a range of print, digital and blended resources.Oxford Insight History provides explicit coverage of all History objectives and outcomes identified by the NSW Board of Studies. Student understanding is mapped against course content at each Stage and a range of assessment tools are provided to ensure that deep learning has taken place and to help students successfully meet all required outcomes. Key featuresStunning images and illustrations engage students and support deep inquiry.Each chapter of Oxford Insight History is sequenced according to the NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum: History and structured around a number of key inquiry questions.Content dot points clearly map the learning sequence for students.Source study activities expose students to a range of primary and secondary sources designed to bring the past to life. All sources are accompanied by activities that challenge students to engage with the past and develop a range of historical skills.Review, Interpret, Apply and Extend tasks appear throughout each chapter, providing a range of activities suited to different abilities and learning styles.Checkpoint questions appear at the end of every section and are linked to a content dot point in the NSW History Syllabus. They can be used flexibly – completed orally in class (to support formative assessment) or set as written tests (to support summative assessment).Each Checkpoint is supported by a set of three student worksheets available electronically via Teacher obook assess. These worksheets are graded to support, consolidate or extend students of different abilities and personalise learning in your class.Rich tasks appear at the end of every section. They are open-ended, inquiry-based tasks that often involve an element of fun. They are designed to engage students to develop their specific historical skills.The Historians Toolkit provides a stand-alone reference for all of the historical skills and concepts (can be taught as a separate unit of work or revisited as required).obook provides an interactive electronic version of the Student book in an easy-to-read format. It features multimedia links, interactive learning objects, videos, note-taking, highlighting and bookmarking tools, and live question blocks. obook is compatible with laptops, iPads, tablets and IWBs, and also offers page view (in flipbook format) that can be used offline. assess is an indispensable online assessment tool. Explicitly mapped to the Australian Curriculum, it drives student progress through tailored instruction. Teachers can track the status of assignments, monitor progress with auto-marking assessments, or construct customised tests from the testbank using varied question levels and question types.For all related titles in this series, please click here
