Tuesday, August 30, 2005

The National History Challenge

The National History Challenge is an initiative from the History Teachers Association of Australia for full time students from years 5-12. It is a research based competition giving students a chance to be an historian!
The 2004 theme for the National History Challenge is Celebrations in Australian History. Celebrations encourage students to investigate, analyse and record a story of celebration for submission into a selection of eight categories. Categories include National Events, In War and Peace and Celebrating Heritage - all to encourage and inspire students to learn about their community and explore their own past. The student's choice of stories can be personal or on a more national level but must be a 'celebration' of Australian history.
For the first time, The History Channel is the exclusive sponsor of the category, Celebrating Australian Film. The scope of this category covers a broad range of angles from the silent to the sound era, the growth and development of Australia's film industry; its actors, directors or producers. Australia's film industry has a full and rich past, which to this day boasts world class standards with sort after directors and actors.
The History Channel will air a line-up of programmes relevant to Celebrating Australian Film to assist students in researching their projects, provide ideas and insights into the subject. The line-up includes the fascinating story of Australia's feature film industry from 1906 to 1976 in Sunshine & Shadows - 70 Years of Australian Movies and the three part documentary History of Australian Cinema.

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