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Year 2: Then and Now: All Guides

REDeLEARN Resources

A Long Time Ago

  • Schools a long time ago
  • Shops a long time ago
  • Travel a long time ago

Clothes People Wore

  • Coats
  • Dresses
  • Hats
  • Shoes

Find out About the Past

  • Books
  • Letters
  • Old newspapers
  • People's stories
  • Photos
  • Videos

Past, Present, Future

  • Daily Life
  • Sacred Places

What Used to be There

  • Old hills
  • Old houses
  • Old rivers
  • Old trees

Accessing REDeLEARN

REDeLEARN

REDeLEARN is specifically for students in K to 6 in Australia.  It contains loads of Australian content, which makes it an ideal resource to support history and geography inquiry units.

REDeLEARN has a huge range of differentiated resources and a couple of neat accessibility features such as the ability to use a dyslexic friendly font and the ability for text to be read aloud.

Most articles have a great selection of images to accompany them as well as activities, quizzes and a glossary.

You can access the K-2 resource and 3-6 resource through:

If you do need the login details, they are:

Username – hutchins

Password – read

Swipe Tool - Tasmania, then and now

Swipe Tool - Tasmania, Then and Now

Spyglass Tool - Tasmania, Then and Now

  1. Devonport (1946 - 2013)
  2. Taroona (1946 - 2013)
  3. New Town (1946 - 2013)
  4. Cambridge (1946 - 2013)
  5. Lilydale (1951 - 2014)
  6. Hagley (1945 - 2014)
  7. Burnie (1950 - 2012)
  8. Deloraine (1948 - 2015)
  9. Exeter (1953 - 2013)
  10. Mole Creek (1970 - 2014)
  11. Oatlands (1946 - 2011)
  12. Queenstown (1946 - 2010)
  13. Woodbridge (1949 - 2011)
  14. Jordan River (1946 - 2013)

Swipe Tool - The Hutchins School

ABC Article: Archaeologists complete largest mass exhumation in Australian history from old cemetery under The Hutchins School (with Swipe Tool of The Hutchins School)

 

Video Resources

'Now and Then' by Fiona Levings

There is a little wooden house in our town. It has been there a while. 

Now, it is Jem's home. Then, it was Doug's home. 

Eighty years can bring a lot of change to a small town...but what about the people who live there? 

Were your grandparents really that different to you?

Teaching Notes