Ready-to-use digital teaching resources for the history classroom

Downloadable history classroom worksheets

FREE Resources


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Source Criticism Reference Sheet
This is a table of all source criticism skills. A great reference tool for students as it includes hyperlinks to additional information for each skill. (PDF format)
Source Criticism Reference Sheet.pdf
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Source Criticism Skills Poster
This is a visual guide to the source analysis and evaluation skills, presented in a way to aid memorisation. (PDF format)
IOP CAM.pdf
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Student Worksheets


Corroboration and Contradiction Worksheet

Ready-to-use digital worksheet to help student systematically record their notes while learning how to identify corroboration and contradiction between historical sources. It also provides space to create a written to response to demonstrate their learning.

$1.00

Background Research Worksheet

Ready-to-use digital worksheet for background research on any topic. It has blank tables with question prompts to aid successful completion.

$1.00

Source Criticism Worksheet

A ready-to-use table for source analysis and evaluation. There are prompts for each criticism skill with space for individual answers, as well as hyperlinks to additional information for further help with each skill. (Microsoft Word format)

$1.50

Cause and Consequence Graphic Organiser

A table where students can list the causes and consequences (both long and short term) for any given historical event. Great for dealing with complex historical events. (Word Document format)

$2.50

Source Investigation Template

A Word Document template for students to use when conducting a Source Investigation research task. It provides space for six unique sources. The format allows it to be used for any historical topic or student level.

$3.00

Timeline Creator (Years)

A nifty Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that allows the user to enter years and sort events by categories. The spreadsheet maps out the events by category in a tabled view that allows the user to see the relationship between the events. Simple yet powerful.

$4.00

Historical Knowledge Exam Revision Worksheet

A worksheet specifically designed to help student compile all of the necessary information to successfully prepare for the Historical Knowledge component of exams. It has sections where students demonstrate significant people, places, terms, as well as cause and consequences, change on continuity, as well as motives and historical empathy. The format allows it to be used for any historical topic or student level.

$4.00

Historical Research Journal

A ready-to-use digital student research journal that follows the same 9-step research process from the History Skills website. Each research stage has explanations, blank tables and hyperlinks to examples to aid with the completion of essay research. There is space for 10 unique sources, each with its own table for the collection of both direct and indirect quotes. (Microsoft Word format)

$7.00

Classroom Posters


History Teacher Wisdom Posters

28 posters for classroom display with thought-provoking texts in order to generate good discussions in History lessons. Each poster is provided as a PDF file at A3 size, but can be printed larger or smaller, depending on your needs. Preview images of the posters can be found here: https://www.historyskills.com/favourites/quotes/ 

History Teacher Wisdom Posters

$30.00

Online Classroom Access


Year 7 Classroom Teacher Subscription 2024

This provides full access to all current Year 7 teacher resources in the Classroom section of the History Skills website until the end of the 2024 calendar year (31 December 2024).

Current units: Archaeology, Deep Time Australia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China.

 

Preview a list of available lessons here.

 

$25.00

Year 8 Classroom Teacher Subscription 2024

This provides full access to all current Year 8 teacher resources in the Classroom section of the History Skills website until the end of the 2024 calendar year (31 December 2024).

Current units: Dark Ages, Middle Ages, The Tudors, The Reformation, Feudal Japan, Age of Exploration, Fall of the Aztecs, the Inca Empire

 

Preview a list of available lessons here.

 

$30.00

Year 9 Classroom Teacher Subscription 2024

This provides full access to all current Year 9 teacher resources in the Classroom section of the History Skills website until the end of the 2024 calendar year (31 December 2024).

Current units: Birth of Modernity, Industrial Revolution, Australian History, and World War One.

 

Preview a list of available lessons here.

 

$35.00

Year 10 Classroom Teacher Subscription 2024

This provides full access to all current Year 10 teacher resources in the Classroom section of the History Skills website until the end of the 2024 calendar year (31 December 2024).

Current units: Inter-War Years, World War Two, Rights and Freedoms, Cold War, and Popular Culture.

 

Preview a list of available lessons here.

$35.00

Ancient History Classroom Teacher Subscription 2024

This provides full access to all current Ancient History teacher resources in the Classroom section of the History Skills website until the end of the 2024 calendar year (31 December 2024).

Current units: Archaeology, Egypt, Greece, Alexander the Great, Rome, Early Middle Ages, and the Crusades.

 

Preview a list of available lessons here.

$40.00

Modern History Classroom Teacher Subscription 2024

This provides full access to all current Modern History teacher resources in the Classroom section of the History Skills website until the end of the 2024 calendar year (31 December 2024).

Current units: France, America, Russia, Germany, India, Japan, Australia, and the Israel-Palestine Conflict.

 

Preview a list of available lessons here.

 

$50.00

Complete Classroom Teacher Subscription 2024

This provides full access to all current teacher resources for all year levels (Years 7, 8, 9, 10, Senior Ancient History, and Senior Modern History) in the Classroom section of the History Skills website until the end of the 2024 calendar year (31 December 2024).

 

Preview a list of available lessons here.

$200.00


Interactive timelines


Digital History Timelines

Explore history using Timeline Software. Time-travel and visit any history period with a few clicks! Select events to access primary sources and online encyclopedia articles. Create, browse and print interactive timelines using the latest software technology.

 


High School Textbooks


Senior Ancient History for Queensland (Cambridge University Press)

History Skills is proud to be a contributing author for the latest Senior Ancient History textbook for Queensland. Working as part of an outstanding group of authors who have built the product around the 'inquiry approach', I look forward to seeing how this product helps support both students and teachers in the new syllabus.

 

Check out an inspection copy or buy yours today here.

Ancient Rome Textbook

History Skills is a contributing author for the new Ancient Rome senior Ancient History textbook by the History Teachers' Association of Victoria. You can inspect and purchase the text via the following link.