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Settlement in Australia

Knowing Understanding Applying Analysing Creating Evaluating

1. Brainstorm all you know


1. Explain why convicts
about the Aboriginal 1. Make a poster of Early
were sent to Australia 1. Investigate the reasons
Verbal people. Australian Settlement Establishing a New Colony
2. Write a diary entry from why people were
2. Create a mind-map on 2. Design a travel.
the point of view of an transported to Australia. Design and create a multimedia advertising campaign
I enjoy reading, Australian settlement. brochure for Sydney
early Australian 2. Investigate the
3. List the basic needs of Town. to educate people and to encourage them to move to
writing and Explorer. literature that describes
the first settlers. 3. Read Lizzie Nonsense your new colony before disaster strikes.
3. Discuss Aboriginal the culture of the
speaking 4. Read a selection of
resistance to the
Jan Ormernd. Make a
Aboriginal dreamtime poster comparing Aboriginal people.
establishment of a
stories. What are the Lizzies life to your own.
British colony. The year is 2020. Antarctica is melting. The sea level is
common features of the
rising and all the settlements located along the Australian
stories you read?
Coastline will disappear. You have been selected as part
1. Search for information 1. Research rations of the
about the number of First Fleet. Calculate the of a group to find a suitable place to start a new colony in
Mathematical Central Australia. What will you need to take and do to set
convicts on the first rations for a day.
1. Covert the travelling time 1. Arrange the ships of the up a colony in a sparsely populated area?
I enjoy working fleet. 2. On a world map, show
of the first fleet from First Fleet according to
2. Create a dot-graph, the travel path of the
with numbers and months to weeks and size and cargo. Your group needs to:
showing the number of First Fleet. Add grid
weeks to days.
science convicts sent over on references for where the - Organise what they wold take and explain why
ships between the years fleet started and they chose each item
1788 and 1800. finished. - Select a site and explain why the location would be
Visual/Spatial 1. Compare how needs
suitable for the new colony
1. Research and re-create 1. Draw pictures showing - Discuss how you would work with the Indigenous
1. Create a collage were met in 1790 and
I enjoy painting, some sketches of like as a convict, soldier, people
consisting of images to in the present. Show
Australian plants and Aboriginal, free-settler or
drawing and advertise the Swan research in a Venn
animals by Joseph government official.
River Colony. Diagram.
visualising Banks. 2. Why is Aboriginal Art
special?
Kinaesthetic 1. Present to the class
1. Design a board game providing details on
1. Investigate and explain
I enjoy doing 1. Look at posters, photos
1. Research traditional 2. Construct a timeline
why the early
related to Australian how the game is played
Aboriginal dances, and showing changes to Colonisation. and the type of
hands-on and pictures of Early
what they mean. Re- people and places as a
settlement in Western
2. Create a headline for a
Australian Settlement. Australia needed to information about the
activities, sports enact one of the dances. result of colonisation. newspaper article about first settlement that has
expand.
and dance the First Fleet. been included.

Musical 1. Create your own


1. Why is music important 1. Listen to analyse 1. Perform a song, dance
1. Read Bound for Botany 1. Discuss the language traditional Aboriginal
in the Aboriginal culture? pieces of music with a and/or rap about
I enjoy making and Bay and other Early
2. Create a rap that
spoken by convict
settlement or
musical instrument
Australian songs. settlers. 2. In a group, compose a convicts or settlement.
listening to music expresses the feeling of transportation theme.
Convicts Rap.
the First Settlers.
1. In groups, list all the 1. Organise the 1. Research punishment 1. Prioritise and give
Interpersonal 1. Explain the 1. Prepare a report on the
feelings you think the experiences of these and work options in the reasons for a list of
consequences of British Aboriginal people before
Aboriginal people would people into hardship Swan River colony, feelings the Aboriginal
I enjoy working have had when the invasion for the the European settlers and opportunities in the prospects for release people would have had
British arrived. Aboriginal people. arrived in Australia. new settlement. and treatment of when the British
with others 2. Describe the hardships 2. Compare the convicts. arrived.
encountered by the First similarities and 2. Reflect on what life 2. Discuss how relations
Settlers in New South differences between would have been like if could have been
Wales. the Aboriginal people the British did not settle different between the
and the colonists. in the Swan River British and Aboriginal
Colony. people.
3. Review a diary of a
convict.
1. Construct a newspaper
story related to an
1. Read Beth: The Story
incident in the life of a
of a Child Convict.
1. Visualise sharing a meal settler or convict.
1. Examine how you would Analyse why Beth was
Intrapersonal with an Aboriginal tribe. 2. Imagine you are a 1. Research what it meant
1. Describe the life of the react if you were sent to Australia.
What might this look convict, write a poem to pardon a convict.
Aboriginal people. sentenced to 2. Using Beth: The Story
I enjoy working by 2. Describe the life of the
like?
transportation. Create a of a Child Convict,
about your life and Why would convicts be
2. Describe the routes misery. pardoned?
myself convicts on the ship. word cloud describing research smallpox.
takes by explorers and 3. Create your own
these feelings. Look at how smallpox
hardships faced. Dreamtime story. This
effected England and
may be a PowerPoint
Australia.
presentation, a play or
re-told to the class.
Native Animals in Crisis!
Naturalist 1. Illustrate and label an 1. Investigate the culture
1. Research sketches by 1. Write a description of the of the Aboriginal people
animal or plant species. Create a presentation to share what you know about a
Joseph Banks of OPossum animal. and their relationship
I enjoy caring for Australian plants and Describe its appearance,
Describe its specific native animal with your class, and to raise
appearance, habits and with the land, plants awareness that the species is threatened. Try to inspire
plants and animals animals. habits and habitat. and animals.
habitat. members of the community to act!

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