Concepts for developing understanding The content in the history sub-strand provides opportunities for students to develop historical understanding through key concepts including sources, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathy and significance. The curriculum in this year provides a study of colonial Australia in the 1800s. Students learn about the reasons for the founding of British colonies in Australia and the impact of a development or event on one Australian colony (continuity and change, cause and effect). They examine what life was like for different groups of people in the colonial period (sources), and explore the reasons for their actions (cause and effect, perspectives, empathy). They examine early migration, settlement patterns, people and their contributions, significant events, and political and economic developments (sources, continuity and change, significance, empathy). Students are also introduced to the concept of sources as they analyse sources to compare information and points of view in the past and present (sources, perspectives). Inquiry Questions (source: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au)
Posters highlighting the main impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
A puzzle related to key concepts of the NAIDOC theme.
A puzzle related to key concepts of the NAIDOC theme.
A puzzle related to key concepts of the NAIDOC theme.
A worksheet for students to reflect on the NAIDOC theme as it relates to them.
An educational poster providing a rationale for teaching an Aboriginal perspective of Cook's landing in Australia.
An educational poster providing a rationale for teaching Australian children about Aboriginal maths.
An educational poster providing a rationale for teaching Australian children about Dreaming stories.
An educational poster providing a rationale for teaching Australian children about traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander toys.
An educational poster providing a rationale for teaching Australian children about the Aboriginal warrior, Pemulwuy.
An educational poster providing a rationale for teaching Australian children about early contact in Australia.
A printable Land Rights Word Search worksheet for your upper primary school students to complete.
A Land Rights jumbled words printable worksheet for your students to complete in your classroom.
A printable Land Rights Crossword worksheet for your students to complete in your classroom.
A printable Land Rights Timeline worksheet for your students to complete in your classroom.
A Venn diagram template designed to allow students to compare and contrast the pros and cons of Indigenous peoples helping miners and the establishment of the Native Police Force during the Australian Gold Rush.
A template students can use to reflect on immigration to Australia while researching their own family ancestry.
A creative writing newspaper project in which students design and write the front page of an imagined newspaper from the Australian Gold Rush era.
An inquiry project in which students research personalities from the Australian Gold Rush and portray them as part of a Living Wax Museum.
A worksheet that enables students to design and share a story using still frame images.
A Y-chart template students can use to reflect on what working on the goldfields looked like, sounded like and felt like.
An interactive gold-panning game in which students explore scenarios of reward, penalisation and inequality.
A comic strip activity that explores how people progressed from trade to currency.
A 16-slide teaching presentation about the events leading up to and including the Eureka Stockade and the positive and negative impacts it had on Australian politics and people.
A 10-slide teaching presentation that explores immigration and diversity during the Australian Gold Rush and how it shaped the multicultural Australia we know today.
An 11-slide teaching presentation discussing the impact the Australian Gold Rush had on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
A 13-slide teaching presentation about the political struggles gold miners faced in their efforts to obtain wealth.
A 17-slide teaching presentation that explores the challenges, hardships and glory of a life spent digging on the Australian goldfields.
A teaching presentation that explores the origins of the Australian Gold Rush.
A 13-slide teaching presentation that includes interesting facts about gold, why it is such a prized metal, and how its use shaped modern currency and trade.
A flip book designed to integrate interesting facts about Australian history into a unit of learning.
Thirty-one content-specific vocabulary cards for a word wall based on the Australian Gold Rush.