Resourcing the Curriculum – Senior Years

A new curriculum can be exciting, but overwhelming. Having to rebuild a stock of relevant resources is no small task!

With year 11 the first to start on the new Australian Senior Curriculum in 2019, we have added senior content in the LearnPath Community Content Hub (LCCH) to support you as you resource the curriculum.

This content is curated by experienced teacher librarians and is freely available to all LearnPath users, to download, add to your system, build on, and customise.

 

While the LCCH is regularly being added to, guides are currently available for English, Essential English, Literature, Modern History, Ancient History, Geography, Legal Studies, and English as an additional language or dialect.

Available guides

ENGLISH

• Jane Eyre
• The Great Gatsby

ESSENTIAL ENGLISH

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
• Riding the Black Cockatoo by John Denalis

LITERATURE

• A Fringe of Leaves by Patrick White
• Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

MODERN HISTORY

Understanding the modern world

• The French Revolution
• The Industrial Revolution (1750 - 1890’s)
• China, 1937 - 1976

Movements for Change in the 20th Century
 

• Recognition and rights of Indigenous Peoples
• The Civil Rights Movement in the USA
• Women’s movements

Modern Nations in the 20th Century

• Germany, 1918 - 1945 (End of World War I - End of World War II)
• China, 1937 - 1976

The Modern World since 1945

• The Berlin Wall

ANCIENT HISTORY

Unit 1: Investigating the ancient world

 

• Cleopatra
• The ‘fall’ of the Roman Empire in the West

Unit 2: Ancient societies

• China in the Qin and Han Dynasties, 221 BC - AD 220
• Sparta, c. 700 - 371 BC

Unit 3: People, power and authority

• Rome, 63 BC - AD 14
• Athens, 490 - 445 BC

Unit 4: Reconstructing the ancient world

• New Kingdom imperialism, diplomacy and governance, 18-20th Dynasty Egypt
• The Athenian Agora and Acropolis, 514 - 399 BC

GEOGRAPHY

Unit 1: Natural and ecological hazards

• Natural hazards
• Ecological hazards
• Human-environment interdependence

Unit 2: Sustainable places

• Places
• Challenges facing places

Unit 3: Land cover transformations

• Biodiversity
• Climate change
• Land cover change

Unit 4: Global transformations

• International integration
• Global economic powers
• Transport, telecommunications & culture
• World cities

LEGAL STUDIES

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

• Legal Foundations
• Criminal Investigation Process
• Criminal Trial Process
• Punishment and Sentencing

Balance of probabilities

• Civil law foundations
• Contractual obligations
• Negligence and the duty of care

ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE OR DIALECT

• Oodgeroo Noonuccal
• Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung (memoir)

To access the guides go to News > Senior Years

Guides are regularly added to the LCCH, don’t forget to check in throughout the year. And don’t forget to explore some of our other guides relevant to senior students, for example, “Post-school Pathways” and “Health and Wellbeing”.

If you’re not sure how to access and add LearnPath Community Content Hub guides to your system, please contact support@softlinkint.com or LearnPath Solutions Specialist Joel Loveridge joel.loveridge@softlinkint.com, who will be only too happy to help.
If you are not a LearnPath user and would like to know more about LearnPath and the LCCH (and discover more guides like this!) visit the resources below.
To speak to one of our Educational Consultants about implementing LearnPath at your school, contact sales@softlinkint.com.

Not a LearnPath user? Visit the following resources to find out more:

• This video gives a brief (1:27min) overview of LearnPath, Softlink’s information curating tool for school libraries.
• Want to learn more about the LearnPath Community Content Hub? This video (3:35min) provides an overview of the hub, which is included with LearnPath and contains a growing collection of curriculum-aligned content guides curated by experienced school librarians.
• Hear from LearnPath user, Elizabeth Lansdown, in this video case study (2:15min). Elizabeth shares how she is collaborating with teaching staff to produce guides and using LearnPath to provide a one-stop-shop for library resources.
• See a preview of more Content Hub resources in this Blog post - Resources for NAIDOC Week… and beyond