Jonathon Dallimore / Ashley America / Luke Bartolo / Melissa Bright / Kay Carroll / Tom Dunwoodie / Andrew Finlay / Robert Loeffel / Nicole Matthews / Michael Molkentin / Ebony Toth
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:
Jonathon Dallimore began teaching history in 2006. He is currently working as a Professional Officer for the History Teachers' Association of NSW and teaching History Methods at the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong. He has written several texts for the NSW Stage 6 syllabus including Modern History and History Extension.
Ashley America
AJ America is a researcher, educator, and musician. She graduated from The Australian National University in 2017 with First Class Honours and PhB majoring in History. During her studies, she was the recipient of the Lady Isaacs prize, and the David Campbell prize, and was awarded prizes at both the 2015 ANU Student Research Conference and the 2015 Australasian Conference of Undergraduate Research. Since graduating, AJ has worked as a research assistant for Dr. Rosanne Kennedy, tutored multiple courses on twentieth century history at the ANU, and curated a seminar on skills in historical writing.
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.
Melissa Bright
Melissa Bright is a highly engaging Modern and Ancient History teacher working in a high-achieving HSIE faculty at Elderslie High School. She has also been an HSC marker for Modern and Ancient History, and was one of the accompanying teachers on the 2019 NSW Premier's ANZAC Memorial Scholarship Tour. She is also a co-author of Cambridge Checkpoints HSC Modern History and Power and Authority in the Modern World: 1919-1946 - Stage 6 Topics in Modern History.
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.
Tom Dunwoodie
Tom is currently a teacher/librarian at Trinity Catholic College in Goulburn. He has previously served as Head of History for the multi-campus M.E.T Schools in New South Wales. As Campus Coordinator in Goulburn, Tom was Lead Teacher on introducing Harvard’s Visible Thinking Routines, and developing a program fostering self-directed learning. He has attended several universities, most recently obtaining a Masters of Humanities in research from the University of New England, Armidale. Tom is also a co-author of Cambridge’s new title History Transformed Stage 5.
Andrew Finlay
Andrew Finlay is a public high school history teacher in New South Wales. Before entering the education system, Andrew worked for ten years in a variety of museums in Australia and Singapore as a historian, curator and public programming manager. Andrew has degrees in modern history, ancient history, politics, palaeontology, museum practice and education.
Robert Loeffel
Dr Robert Loeffel has taught at Sydney Grammar School for over 15 years. He has also coordinated courses on 19th and 20th century history at the University of New South Wales. He had written textbooks and research works, predominantly on Nazi Germany and World War II.
Nicole Matthews
Nicole Matthews is a HSIE teacher at Narromine High School, in the Central West of NSW.
Michael Molkentin
Dr Michael Molkentin is Coordinator of English, Drama and LOTE at Shellharbour Anglican College and an Adjunct Lecturer in History at UNSW Canberra. He has a PhD in History from UNSW and is the author of four books, in addition to numerous chapters and articles, on the history of military conflict, aviation and air power.
Ebony Toth
Ebony Toth is a passionate Ancient History and English teacher working in a Western Sydney High School. She has presented at the ETA Annual Conference, created units of work for mEsh and is an advocate for challenging her students through Project Based Learning. She loves to travel and has a keen interest for all things ancient Rome and Greek.
