Australian Curriculum History – Why colonies were established – Year 5 digital unit

Description

This is a 26-page ebook from the Australian Curriculum History series that covers:

Reasons (economical, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800. (ACHHK093)

Elaborations

Investigating reasons for the establishment of Van Diemen’s Land.
Investigating reasons for the establishment of Western Australia.
Investigating reasons for the establishment of Norfolk Island.

Key inquiry questions

How did Australian colonies develop over time and why?
What do we know about the lives of people in Australia’s colonial past and how do we know?
How did colonial settlement change the environment?
What were the significant events and who were the significant people who shaped Australian colonies?

Historical skills

Sequence historical people and events (ACHHAS098)
Use historical terms and concepts (ACHHS099)
Identify questions to inform a historical inquiry (ACHHS100)
Identify and locate a range of relevant sources (ACHHS101)
Locate information related to inquiry questions in a range of sources (ACHHS102)
Compare information from a range of sources (ACHHS103)
Identify points of view in the past and present (ACHHS104)
Develop texts particularly narratives and descriptions which incorporate source material (ACHHS105)
Use a range of communication forms (oral, graphic, and written) and digital technologies (ACHHS106)

Historical concepts

Cause and effect
Significance
Continuity and change
Empathy
Perspectives

Take a trip through history and learn how the past has helped shape today, with this engaging, content-packed seven-book series covering the Historical knowledge and understanding strand for each year level. Students will be enthralled learning about the first circumnavigation of the globe, Australia’s first people,migrants who have crossed the sea for a new life, and much more.

Three student activity pages which consist of:

a stimulus text to inform students about the theme and to promote discussion
an activity page related directly to the text but requiring research, evaluative comprehension and application of historical skills
an additional activity page which may be either a continuation of the previous page or an extension activity related to the topic but not directly related to the text
a fact file on each of the two activity pages that provides an interesting or unusual fact related to the topic

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