Oxford Insight History for NSW Year 7 Student obook assess includes the following:

• a complete digital version of the Student book with note-taking and bookmarking functionality
• innovative Quizlet content including real-time online quizzes with live leaderboards and fun study activities
• free Oxford Concise Dictionary look-up feature
• interactive activities and flashcard glossaries
• differentiated quizzes featuring interactive, auto-marking, multiple-choice questions
• videos with accompanying worksheets
• weblinks
• inquiry-based Rich tasks designed to engage students to develop their specific historical skills
• differentiated Checkpoint worksheets.

The Historian's toolkit: concepts and skills

PART A - INVESTIGATING THE ANCIENT PAST: AN OVERVIEW (DEPTH STUDY 1)

Chapter 1 Investigating the ancient past

PART B - THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD: AN OVERVIEW (DEPTH STUDY 2)

Chapter 2 Ancient Egypt
Chapter 3 Ancient Greece
Chapter 4 Ancient Rome

PART C - THE ASIAN WORLD: AN OVERVIEW (DEPTH STUDY 3)

Chapter 5 Ancient India
Chapter 6 Ancient China

Dr Bruce Dennett has a PhD in History and a Master’s Degree in Education. He is currently working as a Tertiary Supervisor for Macquarie University’s School of Education. Bruce has more than forty years’ experience teaching Ancient and Modern History in New South Wales secondary schools and at university level. Bruce is an active member of the History Teachers’ Association of NSW (HTANSW) and has been awarded the Premier’s History Teaching Scholarship twice. As well as authoring Insight History, Bruce is one of the lead authors of Oxford University Press’s popular senior history series Key Features of Modern History.

Bernie Howitt is a former lecturer in History and Society & Culture Methods in the School of Education at the University of NSW. Bernie has been teaching History since the 1970s and is the winner of two NSW Premier’s History scholarships. He has worked on syllabus development for both the Board of Studies NSW and ACARA. As well as authoring Insight History, Bernie is one of the lead authors of Oxford University Press’s popular senior history series Key Features of Modern History.

Emily Shanahan has 15 years’ teaching experience and is currently Director of Co-Curricular at Northern Beaches Christian School. This year she has presented at HTA’s 2019 Teaching History Symposium and the HTANSW state conference, as well as two sessions at the National HTA conference. She has received several academic awards for her Master of Educational Leadership, and was awarded a NSW HTA Premier’s History Scholarship for 2020.