Looking for a sources based task to introduce Australian in 1914 lined to world war 1. This no prep lesson is a great starter. It also allows you to quickly assess the students preexisting source analysis skills. Each A3 pages contains 1 source with instructions. There is a range of images from enlistment related and general photos of Australian life.

Develop student source skills

Source skills are central skills in historical study that we need to develop in our students. The more exposure to a range of sources and feedback is the fastest way to develop these skills.

This resource includes:

• 20 pages of sources covering the period of 1914 and the Australian declaration of war in 1914 on Germany.
• There is also a blank page to create your own sources.
• Task instruction sheet
• The sources are limited in number to match normal senior school class sizes.

How to use the task:

1. Spread your students out to be sitting alone.
2. Each student gets a start source.
3. They have 3 minutes for the first source
4. Each student annotates the sources, identifying context, people, places, message, usefulness and so forth. They may also write questions that need more research on the sources for other students to consider.
5. After 3 minutes the students rotate the source to the next student (Clockwise).
6. The student then reads and fills in the gaps on the new sources.
7. Repeat until all students have annotated all sources.
8. You will needs to reduce the time foreach sources as the students fill the pages towards the end. By the last source theygenerally only have 1.5 minutes.
9. When they received back their original sources, they will then summaries the important annotations.
10. Teacher led class discussion on selected sources.

Types of sources included:

• Propagada posters
• Photos
• Newspaper articles
• 1 blank template for you to create your own

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