Australian 1920's History - Money, Men and Markets Source Usefulness Worksheet

Hi, I have updated the resource with a new slide deck introduction and a source examination skills worksheet to compliment the source usefulness sheet.

Product Purpose and Benefits:

• Introduce and reinforce source usefulness through real Australian primary sources
• Build skills in analyzing content, provenance, bias, and intended audience
• Scaffold critical thinking with sentence starters, visual prompts, and guiding questions
• Perfect for exam prep, inquiry tasks, or historical writing practice
• Encourages connection between propaganda, migration, and economic recovery in interwar Australia
  

What’s Included in This Resource:

1. Editable Slide Deck – “Understanding Source Usefulness”

The lesson begins with a teacher-guided slide deck that introduces key concepts of source usefulness, including content and provenance, bias, perspective, and purpose, with sample questions, sentence starters, and modelled examples to support discussion and explicit teaching of historical thinking skills.

2. Source Evaluation Worksheet

After the slide deck, students apply their learning to a structured, scaffolded worksheet focused on two real sources.

Students are guided to:

• Evaluate each source’s content (what is being said/shown)
• Analyse the provenance (who, when, where, why)
• Make informed judgments about usefulness for understanding the event
• Use evidence to support their evaluation in a clear, written format

3. Source Usefulness Activity

Worksheet designed to deepen understanding.

This task encourages students to:

• Examine the surface and subtext of both sources
• Explore tone, language, and visual cues

• • Build confidence in engaging with unfamiliar source types

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