This 15 slide Year 7 History lesson sequence prepares students for a summative historical inquiry on Deep Time Australia. The resource supports structured research, analytical writing, and evidence‑based argument through clear scaffolds, exemplars, and feedback tools. The first section (slides 1–8) builds core knowledge. It opens with an inquiry question asking how historians construct arguments about the past. Students examine the components of historical inquiry: question, research, evidence, interpretation, and argument. The sequence includes explicit writing instruction, model paragraphs, and guidance on selecting and evaluating evidence. The section closes with a synthesis slide outlining expectations for the summative task. 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 self‑assessment frames, peer feedback protocols, retrieval starters, and consolidation checks. The transferable skill is historical inquiry and analytical writing; 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).