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Year 2 History · Historic places in my area

Name: ______________________

Date: ____________

1. Which of these is a clue that a building is old?
- ☐ (a) A new coat of paint
- ☐ (b) A date carved above the door
- ☐ (c) A car parked outside
- ☐ (d) Solar panels on the roof
2. What is a monument?
- ☐ (a) A type of food
- ☐ (b) A structure built to remember a person or event
- ☐ (c) A shop
- ☐ (d) A road sign
3. Whose Country is the land your town is built on?
- ☐ (a) Nobody's
- ☐ (b) Only the council's
- ☐ (c) The local Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples'
- ☐ (d) The first person who built a house there
4. How should we behave at a historic place?
- ☐ (a) Climb on everything
- ☐ (b) Write our names on the walls
- ☐ (c) Take bits home as souvenirs
- ☐ (d) Stay on paths and follow the signs
5. Things from the past that people value and want to keep are called…
- ☐ (a) heritage
- ☐ (b) rubbish
- ☐ (c) weather
- ☐ (d) technology
6. A building has 2000 carved on it. How many years old is it in 2026?
7. A metal or stone sign that gives information about a place is called a ____.
8. A word that means 'important and worth remembering' is ____.

Answer sheet

1. A date carved above the door — A carved date often shows when a building was built.
2. A structure built to remember a person or event — A monument helps people remember a person or event.
3. The local Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples' — All of Australia is the Country of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
4. Stay on paths and follow the signs — Being respectful helps keep historic places safe for the future.
5. heritage — Heritage means valued things from the past.
6. 26 — 2026 − 2000 = 26.
7. plaque — Plaques tell us about a place or event.
8. significant — Historians call important places and events significant.