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A history of South Australia

This resource uses an interactive timeline to scroll through identified dates in South Australia's history. It is most suitable for students in year 5.

Structure and features

The 'Changing Worlds: A South Australian history website' provides a range of artefacts for students to explore. These artefacts exist in the South Australian Art Gallery and the South Australian Museum.

It establishes students as 'time travellers' who explore South Australian history by examining the artefacts.

  • Access the 'Time travellers' guide', and use the set of questions to explore the significance of a range of artefacts at different stages of South Australia's history.

For teachers

The questions will enable students to explore a range of:

  • historical artefacts
  • changes in SA over time 
  • Aboriginal perspectives
  • different ways history has been recorded.