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HSIE 7-10

TROVE - Find and get over 269,186,203 Australian and online resources:
books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.
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Manuscripts, oral history and pictures collections of the Mitchell Library, Sir William Dixson Library and Dixson Galleries.
For Trove Search Guides click here
** Please also see the growing range of physical and electronic resources available from our school library by searching the Oliver Library Catalogue
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Need a Free Tutor?
Campbelltown Library provides free Studiosity online study and assignment help from qualified tutors. Subjects include Maths, English, Science and more.
​If you are not already a member it is well worthwhile to pop into your local branch and join up. It's free!

Visit: Studiosity

Sign in using your Campbelltown Library Card number

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Homework Centre
Don't forget our Homework Centre that runs here in the school library on Thursdays after school. Pop into the library to collect a parent permission form.

Watch: John Green's Crash Course in World History - The Persians & Greeks
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PictureClick to view the territories of Dynasties in China
Geography

Year 7 - Investigating the World

Year 7 - Using Maps
Year 7 - Global Environments
Year 7 - Giant Panda Case Study
Year 7 - Deserts
Year 7 - The San of the Kalahari

Some Useful Links:
Australia's Physical Environments
Changing Australian Communities
Global Issues in the 21st Century
Nation Master - Compare Countries on Just about Anything!
Foreign Aid
Urban Ecologoy Australia
World Fact Book
National Geographic Online
Year 7 & 8 Geography
Go Back to Where You Came From  - Classroom Resources


Where we get our fresh water


History

The Australian Dictionary of Biography is Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. This valuable resource provides concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of the lives of over 12,000 significant and representative persons in Australian history. Men and women from all walks of life are included providing a comprehensive cross-section of Australian society.

Crash Course in World History YouTube Videos
John Green teaches you the history of the world in 42 episodes!


History Skills Year 7

What is History?
Cemetery site study

The Ancient World Year 7 Introduction

Early Human Migration
National Geographic - The Human Journey: Migration Routes
National Geographic - The Genographic Project
The Bradshaw Foundation - Journey of Mankind. Interactive multimedia map
Smithsonian - The Great Human Migration
How Human Migration Works
Encyclopaedia Brittanica - Human Migration

Human migrations map, interactive 2D animation

THE ANCIENT WORLD - INVESTIGATING THE ANCIENT PAST
Ancient Australia
Ancient Egypt
ABC Splash 
The wonders of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt DK Findout
Ancient Egypt Year 7 Introduction
​Ancient Egypt Year 7 Contact and Conflict
Ancient Egypt Year 7 Pharaoh of the Two Lands
Ancient Egypt Year 7 Religion and Gods
Ancient Egypt Year 7 Funerary Customs
Ancient China - Year 7
DK Findout - Ancient China


DK Findout
​DK Findout - The Stone Age
DK Findout - The Iron Age
DK Findout - The Bronze Age
DK Findout - Mesopotamia
DK Findout - Indus Valley Civilisations
DK Findout - Ancient Greece
DK Findout - Vikings
DK Findout - Aztecs
DK Findout - Incas
DK Findout - Mayas
DK Findout - Ancient Rome
DK Findout - The Maoris

DK Findout - Native Americans

Asia and the World: China 1750-1918  
Libguides
First Opium War

The First Opium War

Medieval Europe
Medieval England - daily life in medieval towns
Medieval Towns
Characteristics of the Feudal World
Feudalism
The Medieval Church
Middle Ages Religion
The Crusades
Crusades in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages Torture
Middle Ages Weapons
DK Findout - The Black Death
DK Findout - Castles

The Realm of the Vikings - National Geographic interactive eResource

The Ancient to the Modern World 
Depth Study 4b Medieval Europe (c. AD 590 – c.1500) - A Medieval Calendar
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Royal Seal of Henry IV

THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
The Convict Experience – Mary Reibey
Depth Study 2a: Making a Nation

The Industrial Revolution
A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries - Provides links to some of the significant people and discoveries during the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Industrial Revolution - This site gives information about events leading up to the Industrial Revolution, as well as information about how the Industrial Revolution spread to the USA.
Overview of the Industrial Revolution- This site looks at the consequences of the Industrial Revolution.
Teacher Librarian Help - This site contains a vast collection of resources that will be useful when studying The Industrial Revolution.


Depth Study 3 Australians at War: World Wars I and II

World War I

WWI and Australia - highly recommended NSW State Library resource
Australia and World War I
ABC 3D Gallipoli Landing
Gallipoli – AE2 
Gallipoli and the ANZACS - Veteran Affairs
Conscription Issue
The Conscription Issue Divides Australia
Australian Film WWI Videos
Trench Warfare
Battles of the Wasser – 2 April 1915 and 31 July 1915
Women and war
Experiences of Women
Experiences of Indigenous Australians
Experiences of People of German Descent
What happened to these diggers? 
The Fry Family Story – Service and Sacrifice ​
World War I – The Western Front 
The Western Front and Other Campaigns
Diaries and letters
WWI Enlistment Posters
Recruitment Posters and Propaganda


Gallipoli and the Anzacs
Anzac Landing at Gallipoli ABC 3D documentary site
Gallipoli Campaign
First World War DiariesLetters home from Henry James Wright, an Australian soldier serving with the AIF
Australian War Memorial
Gallipoli – The Sources - Australian War Memorial
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett's diary


Depth Study 6  
The 1930s
The Holocaust ​
Oskar Schindler ​


World War II
The Kokoda Track
The Kokoda Campaign
The Australian Homefront
On The Homefront
Australia and World War II
Cencorship and Propaganda
Women's Roles
Conscription
Enemy Aliens
Indigenous Servicemen
The Fall of Singapore

Prisoners of War

The Vietnam War
Australia and the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War - RSL NSW
The Vietnam War - Australian War Memorial

Libguides Vietnam War

The Khan Academy
The Khan Academy - Aztecs
The Khan Academy - Aztec Empire
The Khan Academy - Incas
The Khan Academy - The Maya
The Khan Academy - The Renaissance
The Khan Academy - Ancient Rome
The Khan Academy - Shoguns, samurai and the Japanese Middle Ages
The Khan Academy - 
Human migration: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific

Shogunate Japan
Feudal Japan: 1185 - 1603
Online Game - Japan's Feudal Society
Edo - Ancient Tokyo
The Samurai - A Brief History
Samarai and Bushido
Feudal Japan: The Age of the Warrior
Japanese Samurai and Shoguns
Japanese Religion and Spirituality
Medieval Japan
http://medievjapan.weebly.com/index.html
http://medievaljapandarcy.weebly.com/index.html
http://veryasian.weebly.com/index.html


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Watch the Video John Green's Ancient Egypt: Crash Course World History 
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Virtual library last updated 4 January 2017
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