Blake’s Learning Centres are a wonderful and motivating way for students to practise important skills. This resource consists of 25 Australian History Source Cards that address the inquiry questions for the Year 1 and 2 History strand of the HASS Curriculum.

An Activity Card accompanies each Source Card and features tasks designed to help students engage fully with the topics. Students can use these cards to work independently or in pairs to develop their History inquiry and analysis skills. ACARA codes are shown on each card and activity.

The 25 Source and Activity Cards in this downloadable PDF resource are divided between Year 1 (cards 1–10) and Year 2 (cards 11–25).

The Activity Cards cover the following Historical Skills from the curriculum for each topic:

• Researching
• Questioning
• Analysing
• Evaluating
• Reflecting Communicating.

The downloadable PDF resource also includes:

• 38 printable worksheets
• Student and teacher centre checklists
• Answers