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Singapore: From settlement to city-state

• Throughline: How did Singapore develop into what it is today?

• Generative Topics: Early Beginnings, c.1300-1819
• Singapore’s links with Majapahit; Melaka; Johore-Riau Sultanate, c.1300–1819
  
• Evidence of early Singapore

• Understanding Goals:
• Term 3 Week 1
  
• what was the early history of Singapore?
• Term 3 Week 2
• how did archaeology and other sources help to reconstruct Singapore’s early history?
• how importance were new evidence to the interpretation of the historic past?

• Performances
  
• Approach:
  
• Thinking Skills: Inference & comparison skills
• Economic Lteracy: Singapore has benefited from free trade
• Activities:
  
• IT: The Singapore Story (CDROM), Vanishing Trades (CDROM)
• Print: Early Singapore 1300s- 1819 Evidence in Maps, Text and Artifacts
• Assignments:
  
• Teachers Resource pp.4 to 5 and 24
  
• Teacher’s Resource p.25
• Teacher’s Resource pp. 28-31