HSIE
Find additional advice on learning from home in HSIE. Students should ensure they are communicating regularly with their school and classroom teacher via your preferred digital platform for up to date advice on their course.
Key advice for students learning at home
- Year 11 and year 12 students should remain abreast of current issues as they pertain to Aboriginal histories and cultures.
- Students should begin or continue to work on their local community/comparative case study using virtual collaborative technology if suitable.
- Year 12 students should continue to work on their major project, keeping their log up to date with detail of the work they are completing.
- Students should continue to work on any assessment tasks they have been assigned.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to self direct your learning in the chosen options outlined by your teacher in your course guide/subject outline.
- Use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure your learning and take notes in your preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz yourself and maintain your knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practice questions for topics already covered in order to revise.
- Online Multiple - choice questions can also be accessed at NESA.
Other advice
Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of topics/content that is no longer part of the course, if you are completing past exam questions.
See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for students learning at home
- Year 11 students may use the time away from school to work on the Historical Investigation task.
- Year 12 students should continue to work on any research-based assessment tasks or recommended readings assigned by teachers.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to self direct your learning in the chosen options outlined by your teacher in your course guide/subject outline.
- Use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure your learning and take notes in your preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz yourself and maintain your knowledge.
- Access NESA syllabuses and past papers to practise questions for topics that you have already completed.
- Students can revise from NESA online multiple-choice questions.
Other advice
Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of topics/content that is no longer part of the course, if you are completing past exam questions.
See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for students learning at home
- All students should continue to revise content already covered.
- Year 11 and year 12 students should remain abreast of current issues as they pertain to influences on the business environment and particularly as they may be applied as business case studies.
- Students should continue to work on any assessment tasks they have been assigned.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to self direct your learning in the chosen options outlined by your teacher in your course guide/subject outline.
- Use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure your learning and take notes in your preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz yourself and maintain your knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered. Link to past papers
- Online multiple-choice questions can also be accessed at NESA.
Other advice
Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content.
See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for students learning at home
- All students should continue to revise content already covered.
- Year 11 and year 12 students should remain abreast of current issues as they pertain to issues relating to the economic world.
- Students should continue to work on any assessment tasks they have been assigned.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to self direct your learning in the chosen options outlined by your teacher in your course guide/subject outline.
- Use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure your learning and take notes in your preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz yourself and maintain your knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered. Link to past papers.
- Online multiple-choice questions can also be accessed at NESA.
Other advice
Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content.
See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for students learning at home
- Ensure you are practising all required geographical skills. These can be practised and marked from past papers available from NESA.
- Year 11 students may use the time to develop their SGP task, specifically focusing on identifying their research topics and conducting research and collecting secondary data.
- Year 12 should continue working on any assessment tasks they have been assigned by teachers.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to self direct your learning in the chosen options outlined by your teacher in your course guide/subject outline.
- Use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure your learning and take notes in your preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz yourself and maintain your knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered.
- Online multiple-choice questions can also be accessed at NESA.
Other advice
Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content.
See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for students learning at home
- Continue to work on your major project, utilising digital libraries and databases (if you haven't already, sign up for the State Library of NSW to gain access to JSTOR and other humanities databases) to continue your research.
- Utilise the media around any issues to do with history that you encounter - engage with articles and social media relating to the key questions in Constructing History, creating summaries and mini case studies to further develop your understanding. Ensure you can link the contemporary examples that you gather with ancient and/or modern historiography.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to self direct your learning in the chosen options outlined by your teacher in your course guide/subject outline.
- Use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure your learning and take notes in your preferred style.
- Access past papers to gauge the style and range of questions that may be asked and use them as a tool to create summaries and brainstorms around possible responses.
Other advice
Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of topics/content that is no longer part of the course, if you are completing past exam questions.
See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for students learning at home
- All students should continue to revise content already covered. Year 11 and year 12 students should remain abreast of contemporary issues as they pertain to legal issues in Australia.
- Students should continue to work on any assessment tasks they have been assigned.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to self direct your learning in the chosen options outlined by your teacher in your course guide/subject outline.
- Use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure your learning and take notes in your preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz yourself and maintain your knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered.
- Online multiple-choice questions can also be accessed at NESA.
Other advice
Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content.
See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for students learning at home
- Year 11 students may use time away from school to work on the Historical Investigation task.
- Year 12 students should continue to work on any research based assessment tasks or recommended readings assigned by teachers.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to self direct your learning in the chosen options outlined by your teacher in your course guide/subject outline.
- Use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure your learning and take notes in your preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz yourself and maintain your knowledge.
- Access NESA syllabuses and past papers to practise questions for topics that you have already completed.
- Students can also revise from NESA online multiple-choice questions.
Other advice
Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of topics/content that is no longer part of the course, if you are completing past exam questions.
See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for students learning at home
- Year 12 students should continue to work on their Personal Interest Project, bearing in mind its due date of Monday 3 August.
- Ensure that you keep up to date with possible changes to assessment dates through the NESA website.
- Year 11 may use their time to revise content already covered.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to self direct your learning in the chosen options outlined by your teacher in your course guide/subject outline.
- Use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure your learning and take notes in your preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz yourself and maintain your knowledge.
- Students should also access past papers from NESA and practise questions for topics already completed. Link to past papers.
- Online multiple-choice questions can also be accessed at NESA.
Other advice
Students should remain aware of all expectations in relation to completing their Personal Interest Project (PIP).
Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes to the nature of the content being covered.
See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.
Key advice for students learning at home
- All students should continue to revise content already covered.
- Year 11 and year 12 students should remain abreast of current issues as they pertain to issues around religion in the world.
- Students should continue to work on any assessment tasks they have been assigned.
- Use the syllabus as a guide to self direct your learning in the chosen options outlined by your teacher in your course guide/subject outline.
- Use reputable websites, educational videos and textbooks/academic texts to structure your learning and take notes in your preferred style.
- Use apps such as Quizlet to create practice questions of varying types to quiz yourself and maintain your knowledge.
- Access NESA past papers to practise questions for topics already covered.
- Online multiple-choice questions can also be accessed at NESA for Studies of religion and Studies of religion II
Other advice
Check the syllabus on NESA's website and be aware of any changes being announced that affect examination content.
See NESA news for updates and contacts regarding assessment.