Practical and targeted teacher support is provided in digital format via Teacher obook assess.

obook provides teachers with access to the Student book together with added extras such as teaching programs, lesson ideas, worksheets, class tests and answers to all activities in the Student book.

assess offers the ability to assign interactive quizzes and tests, gather results, and monitor student performance. Teacher obook assess now also offers Dashboard view – an online lesson control centre, allowing teachers to instantly preview, access and assign resources such as videos, interactives, worksheets and tests to students.

With Oxford Big Ideas History Teacher obook assess, teachers can:

• access over 40 editable student worksheets (with answers)
• set up classes
• set assignments
• monitor progress and results
• tailor teaching according to individual student needs
• over 200 pages of Victorian Curriculum content
• over 80 pages of teacher support (teacher notes, answers, curriculum planning, teaching programs)
• videos with supporting worksheets
• 350 self-correcting assess quiz questions

Concepts and skills

Chapter 1 The history toolkit

Unit 1 The European and Mediterranean world

Chapter 2 Introduction to the European and Mediterranean world

Chapter 3 The Vikings

Chapter 4 Medieval Europe

Chapter 5 The Ottoman Empire

Unit 2 The Asia-Pacific world

Chapter 6 Introduction to the Asia-Pacific world

Chapter 7 The Khmer Empire

Chapter 8 Mongol Expansion

Chapter 9 Japan under the shoguns

Chapter 10 The Polynesian expansion across the Pacific

Unit 3 Expanding contacts: discovery and exploration

Chapter 11 Introduction to Expanding contacts: Discovery and exploration

Chapter 12 Renaissance Italy

Chapter 13 The Spanish conquest of the Americas

Glossary

Index

Acknowledgements

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.

Richard Smith is a history teacher at Melbourne Grammar School. He has worked in government and independent schools for over 35 years in both administrative and teaching roles. Richard is presently the Treasurer of the History Teachers Association of Victoria and is immediate-past president. He chairs the National History Challenge for the History Teachers' Association of Australia of which he is a past vice-president and treasurer. In 2010 Richard was honoured with the presentation of the HTAV award for Outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history and to the HTAV.