Oxford Insight History for NSW Year 8 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 D - THE WESTERN AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD: AN OVERVIEW (DEPTH STUDY 4)

Chapter 7 The Vikings
Chapter 8 Medieval Europe
Chapter 9 The Ottoman Empire
Chapter 10 Renaissance Italy

PART E - THE ASIA–PACIFIC WORLD: AN OVERVIEW (DEPTH STUDY 5)

Chapter 11 The Angkor/Khmer Empire
Chapter 12 Japan under the Shoguns
Chapter 13 The Polynesian expansion across the Pacific

PART F - EXPANDING CONTACTS: AN OVERVIEW (DEPTH STUDY 6)

Chapter 14 Mongol expansion
Chapter 15 The Black Death in Asia, Europe and Africa
Chapter 16 The Spanish conquest of the Americas
Chapter 17 Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples, colonisation and contact history

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.