Based on the content descriptions and elaborations of the Australian History Curriculum, this series aims to give students a sound understanding of the prople and events that have shaped Australia's society, culture and landscape and how their own life and personal history fits into a broader context. Features well-presented information, multi-model stimulus texts (recounts, biographies, portraits, retrieval charts/tables, maps, illustrations, photographs, timelines, breakout boxes, lists, journal entries and eyewitness accounts), activities and topic reviews with both factual review and inferential questions.