Oxford Big Ideas Geography | History Australian Curriculum provides complete coverage of Australian Curriculum: Geography and Australian Curriculum: History across Years 7 to 10.

Each level is packaged in a way that:

• 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.

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.

Features:

• 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 learning styles.
• Provides a complete teaching and learning program at each year level from Years 7–10, across print (student text), digital (obook/assess, teacher obook/assess), and blended (student book + obook/assess and teacher kit + obook/assess) formats. Stand-alone reference sections covering all key geographical and historical concepts and skills from the Australian Curriculum.

About the Authors

Mark Easton has taught Geography, History and English for over 20 years and during the last 15 years has been a contributing author to many geography, humanities and atlas titles. In 2010 he joined Oxford as a geography consultant to work on a range of titles and to support the use of these resources in the classroom. Mark is also the Head of the Humanities Department at St Margarets School.

Maggy Saldais brings fifteen years’ experience in educational publishing to her role as a History author. Maggy has a strong academic background in the discipline of History and a long-held commitment to engaging middle-years students in learning and discovery in her field of expertise.