This 15 slide Year 7 History lesson sequence introduces students to the material and archaeological evidence of Deep Time Australia. The resource helps students analyse artefacts, sites, and oral histories using a consistent source‑analysis framework, showing how evidence is interpreted, what it reveals, and what its limitations are. The first section (slides 1–8) builds core knowledge. It opens with an inquiry question asking how we know what life was like in Deep Time Australia. Students examine rock art, tools, archaeological sites, environmental data, and oral histories, each explored for what it shows, what historians infer, and what it cannot tell us. The sequence includes a slide addressing reliability and limitations and closes with a synthesis slide drawing together how different forms of evidence combine to build historical understanding. The second section (slides 9–15) provides a bank of learning activities for teachers to use across multiple lessons. Each activity slide includes a clear student task, a suggested timeframe, and a brief teacher note on purpose and differentiation. The activity bank includes source analysis, discussion and debate, creative and divergent thinking, structured writing, and additional tasks such as sequencing evidence, annotation tasks, retrieval starters, and consolidation checks. The transferable skill is source analysis; Deep Time Australia is the vehicle.

This resource is provided as non‑editable PDFs and is not designed as editable PowerPoints. Teachers can upload slides to their LMS, print selected pages for classroom use, display them to support discussion, analysis, and writing, or upload them to presentation or design platforms if they wish to adapt the material (formatting may vary depending on the program).