Oxford Big Ideas Geography/History AC - Year 7: Student Book + obook/assess (Print & Digital)

Part of the series Oxford Big Ideas Geography/History Australian Curriculum - Year 7.

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Oxford Big Ideas Geography|History is ideal for semester-based delivery in the Humanities classroom. The series helps students develop deep understandings through a genuine inquiry-based framework.

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Student Book + obook/assess

Features

• Supports the full delivery of all course content within the available class time.
• Enables teachers to adopt a semesterised approach or deliver discrete year-long courses.
• Provides interim Civics & Citizenship and Commerce units for schools (in digital format only), until final ACARA syllabus is released.
• Content tailored to the needs of your classroom — each unit is enhanced by a range of engaging learning resources (such as stunning artwork, maps and differentiated activities) designed to ensure full coverage of the syllabus within the allocated class time.
• Purpose-written content that explicitly intergrates both strands of the Australian Curriculum: Geography and History and includes learning resources cater to a wide range of student abilities and learning styles.

The obook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by ‘page view’. Assess is an indispensable online assessment tool, explicitly mapped to the Australian Curriculum that drives student progress through tailored instruction. As well as containing the student text and study tools, this obook offers virtual case studies including interactive maps and timelines, videos and other interactives.

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Contents

• GEOGRAPHY
• The geographer’s toolkit – concepts and skills
• Unit 1 Water in the world
• Chapter 1 Water as a resource
  • 1.1 How is water used as an environmental resource?
  • 1.2 How does water connect and affect places?
  • 1.3 How much water do we have?
• Chapter 2 Valuing and managing water
  • 2.1 In what ways do we value and manage water?
  • 2.2 How can we overcome water scarcity?
  • 2.3 How do we respond to floods?
• Unit 2 Place and liveability
• Chapter 3 Living in Australia
  • 3.1 Where do we live and why?
  • 3.2 Why are some places more liveable than others?
  • 3.3 How do people connect to different places?
• Chapter 4 Liveable cities
  • 4.1 What makes a city liveable?
  • 4.2 Where are the most and least liveable cities?
  • 4.3 How can we make cities more liveable?
• HISTORY
• The historian’s toolkit – concepts and skills
• Overview 1 Investigating the ancient past
• Depth study 1 Investigating the ancient past
• Chapter 5 Investigating the ancient past
  • 5.1 How is history investigated?
  • 5.2 What sources can be used in historical investigation?
  • 5.3 What methods are used to investigate the past?
  • 5.4 Why is conservation important?
• Overview 2 The Mediterranean world
• Depth study 2 The Mediterranean world
• Chapter 6 Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient Egypt: a timeline
  • 6.1 How did geographical features influence human settlement in ancient Egypt?
  • 6.2 What shaped the roles of key groups in ancient Egypt?
  • 6.3 How did beliefs, values and practices influence ancient Egyptian lifestyles?
  • 6.4 How did contacts and conflicts change ancient Egypt?
• Chapter 7 Ancient Greece
  • Ancient Greece: a timeline
  • 7.1 How did geographical features influence human settlement in ancient Greece?
  • 7.2 What shaped the roles of key groups in ancient Greece?
  • 7.3 How did beliefs, values and practices influence ancient Greek lifestyles?
  • 7.4 How did contacts and conflicts change ancient Greece?
• Chapter 8 Ancient Rome
  • Ancient Rome: a timeline
  • 8.1 How did geographical features influence human settlement in ancient Rome?
  • 8.2 What shaped the roles of key groups in ancient Rome?
  • 8.3 How did beliefs, values and practices influence ancient Roman lifestyles?
  • 8.4 How did contacts and conflicts change ancient Rome?
• Overview 3 The Asian world
• Depth study 3 The Asian world
• Ancient India
  • Ancient India: a timeline
  • 1 How did geographical features influence human settlement in ancient India?
  • 2 What shaped the roles of key groups in ancient India?
  • 3 How did beliefs, values and practices influence ancient Indian lifestyles?
  • 4 How did contacts and conflicts change ancient India?
• Chapter 9 Ancient China
  • Ancient China: a timeline
  • 9.1 How did geographical features influence human settlement in ancient China?
  • 9.2 What shaped the roles of key groups in ancient China?
  • 9.3 How did beliefs, values and practices influence ancient Chinese lifestyles?
  • 9.4 How did contacts and conflicts change ancient China?
• Glossary
• Index

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The Geographer's Toolkit - Concept and Skills

Chapter 1: Water as a Resource

The Historian's Toolkit - Concepts and Skills

Chapter 5: Investigating the Ancient Past