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Books in our Library on Changing Technologies

Great Inventions (series)
Call Number: 608
set of 8: The Automobile; The Telephone; The Bicycle; The Computer; The Light Bulb; The Radio; The Sewing Machine; The Television
Transport Then and Now by Charles Hope
Call Number: 388.09 HOP
History from Photographs (series) by Kath Cox and Pat Hughes
six book set:
Houses and Homes
In the Home
In the Street
Journeys
People who Help Us
School
Australia: Then and Now (series) by Jane Pearson
set of four books:
Australians at Home
Australians at Play
Australians at School
Australians at Work
Australia Past and Present (series) by Johanna Rohan
set of four books:
Home
Work
Play
School
Children in Australian History (series) by Melanie Guile
set of four books:
Little Felons
Another Mouth to Feed
Bush Boys and Girls
Baby Boomers
Decades of Change by Itiel Bereson
set of 10 books from Australia in the 1900s to Australia in the 1990s
Inventions in ... (series) by Ian Graham
4 books: Communication; the Home; Transport; Science and Technology
Now and Then (series) by Monica Hughes
set of four books: Clothes, Toys, Journeys, My History
How Things have Changed (series) by Jon Richards
ISBN: 1844581136
2 books: Clothes and In the Home
When I Was Young (series) by Kimberley Webber
set of six books:
Washing
Cooking and Eating
Shopping
Playing
Getting Around
Going to School
Timelines (series)
Set of three books:
Food
Entertainment
Houses

from Education Services Australia

Back in Time for the Corner Shop
Table of contents:
1.Shopping
2.Food
3.Technology, then and now
4.Money and measurement, then and now
5.Women, then and now
Growing Up in the Early 1900s
Follow a day in the life of working-class children living in The Rocks, Sydney in the early 1900s. How different or similar was their day to yours?
Old School Moves
How did people dance, play, work and move in the past? Watch these clips from the ABC archive.
Playgrounds, billycarts and hot rods

Aboriginal game available from the library: Birrguu matya (Bush game) 794 HEN

Playground by Nadia Wheatley; Ken Searle (Illustrator); Jackie Huggins (Contribution by)
Call Number: 305.89 PLA

Six videos and accompanying teacher notes and classroom activities on six historical objects in the National Museum of Australia.

Visit Scootle for the learning objects that are associated with this topic.

Discovering History: Lower Primary by Jennifer Lawless and Kate Cameron
Call Number: 907 LAW
The Past in the Present: Year 2 by R.I.C. Publications
Call Number: 994.0076PAS
ISBN: 1922116394

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