Stephen Clarke / Luke Bartolo / Lani Blackman / Tim Briscoe / Kay Carroll / Martin Garner / Ashlee Horton / Sasha Joura / Andrew Naylor / Danielle Raffaele / David Thomas
History Transformed equips students with powerful tools and skills to analyse and interpret the past, and to make a connection between history and its relevance to their lives.
Affordable and comprehensive Our affordable Stage resources offer great value for money without sacrificing the depth of content needed to master historical concepts and skills. All syllabus topics are covered for every Depth Study, with selected topics provided in digital-only format to ensure that the print books can be both comprehensive and manageable for students in Years 7–10. Site studies are also included for every topic.
Exceptional source analysis tasks A wide range of primary and secondary sources and accompanying source analysis questions have been carefully selected to encourage students to engage with historical skills in context, including using multiple sources – an essential history skill in higher levels. Additional digital sources include custom-made videos, widgets and image galleries to extend content beyond the capacities of the printed textbook and broaden student understanding of how to ‘read’ a source.
Genuinely reflects the spirit of the NSW syllabus History Transformed for Stage 4 and Stage 5 has been written by experienced NSW teachers who bring an empathetic understanding of the curriculum and of the needs of today’s history classroom to the entire resource package.
Overviews are presented in the text as engaging double page spreads with timelines and maps at the start of each section, and more detailed videos that students can watch in class or at home. Further overview material is integrated where appropriate, with each chapter containing at least one activity that explicitly draws on overview content.
Concepts and skills development are embedded throughout the course in a range of activities that help students to make the necessary connections between the skill and the subject matter. These activities are tagged with the relevant skills and concepts being addressed so that teachers can ensure all syllabus areas are covered.
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A huge range of activities and assessment tools
A range of activities throughout each chapter clearly address syllabus skills and concepts in context. Skills developed across the series are taught with increasing levels of challenge as students progress through the textbooks. Review questions at the end of each chapter section address revision of content covered. These questions have been carefully written to move from recall through interpretation to argument.
Visible Thinking Routines inspired by Harvard’s Project Zero promote student engagement, understanding and independence. Each chapter begins with a Visible Thinking Routine for initial engagement, while an optional end-of-chapter activity encourages students to reflect on what they have learned throughout the chapter.
Other end-of-chapter activities include extended response questions, groupwork and research activities, a creative task, and a cross-curricular task, giving the teacher a wide range of choices when deciding how to consolidate learning for their students.
Instant access to additional material QR codes included in the printed textbook instantly direct students to video and audio sources.
Engaging digital resources The comprehensive digital resources engage students and bring the study of history to life with immersive video and audio sources, widgets, and interactive activities in every chapter.
Powerful Learning Management System (LMS) The tried and tested Learning Management System in the Online Teaching Suite combines task-management tools, and a powerful test generator with a suite of individual student and whole-class reports. Teachers can also choose to view student responses and provide feedback.
Watch an interview with Stage 4 leading author, Stephen Clarke, as he addresses how learning and teaching activities focus on developing historical concepts and skills in a meaningful way.
View a short demonstration of the digital resources:
The Online Teaching Suite combines the Interactive Textbook powered by Cambridge Edjin and its rich digital resources with a suite of supplementary resources and a powerful Learning Management System (LMS). It is accessed through a Cambridge GO teacher account. Your Cambridge Education Resource Consultant will provide access to the Online Teaching Suite if your school has purchased or booklisted one or more year levels.
Access to student Workspace entries and self-assessment allows teachers to easily monitor work, while providing students with the opportunity to alert teachers to problems with specific questions. Teachers can choose to give students access to suggested responses for self-assessment.
The Task Manager function can be used to create a Quick task or a Directed task. The Directed task option allows teachers to set an achievement benchmark for measurable activities that directs students on an activity sequence appropriate to their score.
Quickly create customised tests from a large bank of questions. Tests can be printed or assigned online for automarking, and are suitable for assessment, homework tasks, practice quizzes and trial exams. The Test Generator comes with a set of ready-made tests, and teachers can also share their customised tests with other teachers in the school, building a whole-school assessment bank.
When linked to students using the Interactive Textbook, the Online Teaching Suite records student self-assessment ratings on Review activities and their scores on Quizzes. Reports on individual and class progress are available for download. Data from student Interactive Textbooks will feed directly into the Online Teaching Suite.
Teachers have access to downloadable support resources including scope and sequence documents, editable versions of all activities with suggested responses, PowerPoints, additional worksheets and planning support tools.
Online Teaching Suite (2 year access)
The Online Teaching Suite combines the Interactive Textbook powered by HOTmaths with its rich digital resources, a suite of supplementary resources and a powerful Learning Management System (LMS). It is accessed online through the series portal. Your Cambridge Education Resource Consultant will provide access to the Online Teaching Suite if your school has purchased or booklisted one or more Cambridge courses. The Online Teaching Suite is also available for purchase separately and can be activated using the unique 16-character access code supplied on purchase.
The Online Teaching Suite is available as a two-calendar-year subscription. Your subscription term is defined as follows: if activation occurs between January and July of this year, subscription concludes on 31 December in the following year. If activation occurs between August and December of this year, subscription concludes on 31 December in the year after the following.
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History Transformed equips students with powerful tools and skills to analyse and interpret the past, and to make a connection between history and its relevance to their lives.
Watch an interview with Stage 4 leading author, Stephen Clarke, as he addresses how learning and teaching activities focus on developing historical concepts and skills in a meaningful way.
View a short demonstration of the digital resources:
Dr Stephen Clarke has taught Ancient and Modern History and Languages for 20 years. He has been a Head of HSIE and Head of Teaching and Learning in both the public and independent systems. Steve has lectured and tutored in Ancient History at The University of Sydney and in Education at Western Sydney University and completed his PhD in Classical Athenian history at The University of Sydney.
Luke Bartolo
Luke Bartolo is Head Teacher of Teaching & Learning at a Western Sydney High School and has written for the academic journals Teaching History, mETAphor, and English in Australia, as well as contributing material to textbooks for Into English, Cambridge University Press, and Phoenix Education. He has a strong interest in Indigenous histories both in Australia and the Americas, and he regularly shares resources and pedagogy on his blog at lukebartolo.blogspot.com.au.
Lani Blackman
Lani Blackman is an Ancient History, Modern History and Legal Studies teacher at Barrenjoey High School on Sydney's northern beaches. After a first career in law and teaching a number of university law courses, Lani followed her passion for history and turned to the high school classroom. She has presented at a number of HTANSW conferences and study days and contributed to a number of written and video publications with a focus on China and Russia. Lani has also led a teacher study tour to China.
Tim Briscoe
Tim Briscoe has taught History for seventeen years and is currently Head of History at Santa Sabina College, Strathfield. He has taught Ancient History, Modern History, and History Extension during this time, and has worked on examination boards for both the HSC and International Baccalaureate.
Kay Carroll
Dr Kay Carroll is a Lecturer in History Education and the Director of the Secondary Teaching Program, Western Sydney University. Her current research and teaching interests are History Curriculum and Pedagogy. She has been a former Vice President of the History Teachers’ Association of NSW (HTANSW) and History Educator for Macquarie University, the Australian Catholic University and the University of New South Wales. Previously she has been a HSIE Head of Department and teacher across Catholic, independent and state schools. More recently, she has supported the implementation of the NSW History Syllabus K-10 across Catholic schools. She has published texts and journals in Global Education, Historical Inquiry and Pedagogy.
Martin Garner
Martin Garner teaches English as well as Ancient, Modern and Extension History at Mosman High School on Sydney’s lower north shore. Martin has been teaching for 9 years and has worked as for a number of years as an HSC marker for Ancient History.
Ashlee Horton
Ashlee Horton currently teaches English and History in a western Sydney high school, where she has also worked in various Head Teacher roles. She has experience teaching students from language backgrounds other than English and has contributed material for publication by Five Senses Education on how best to support EAL/D students in the classroom. Ashlee has a passion for both history and literature and strives to inspire this love of the humanities in her students.
Sasha Joura
Sasha Joura is a History and English teacher on the NSW South Coast where she has been teaching at Vincentia High School for ten years. She was a recipient of the 2019 NSW Premier's History Teachers Association History Scholarship and spent time in Western Australia, Sweden, Denmark, and the UK investigating maritime archaeology and how to integrate it in the NSW curriculum. She continues to be enthralled by shipwrecks, Vikings, and making replica artefacts for her classroom.
Andrew Naylor
Andrew Naylor has taught Ancient and Modern history and is currently the Head of History at Wollemi College in Sydney's western suburbs. A love of all things history was too strong and pulled Andrew from a career in business. Particular areas of interest include Roman, Byzantine and Medieval history and the Samurai period of Japan.
Danielle Raffaele
Danielle Raffaele is an early-career secondary teacher with a passion for History and writing. While at university, she won literary prizes for her essays on History, Studies in Religion and Literature and has presented at several academic conferences across Australia. Before her teaching career, Danielle was an academic tutor at a number of universities and coordinated a university course on 'Religions of Asia'.
David Thomas
Dr David Thomas is currently a housemaster and teacher of Ancient and Modern History at Cranbrook School and previously served as the Head of the History Department. David has also been active in the Gifted Education program at Cranbook School and completed his doctoral studies in that area in 2008. He has been a long-serving housemaster and teacher of Japanese. He is a co-author of The Great War 1914-1919 and Russia/Soviet Union 1917-1941, and also co-authored a history of Cranbrook School, published in 1997.
