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Colonial Australia - History Word Wall Vocabulary
36 vocabulary cards to use in the classroom when learning about Colonial Australia.
Display these Colonial Australia Word Wall Vocabulary cards when learning about Australian History.
There is a blank sheet provided at the end for any extra words that your students may want to add.
Words include:
Australia, colony, colonies, conflict, gold licence, gold rush, activists, migrant, eureka, migrate, racism, migration, humanitarians, internal exploration, infrastructure, Governor La Trobe, alluvial gold, Eureka stockade, trooper, governor, economic, political, stockade, social, leads, population, miners, rebellion, entrepreneurs, experiences, anti-immigration, resistance leaders, multicultural society, Lambing Flat riots, British and colonisation.
NSW Curriculum alignment
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCHHC084
Describe perspectives and identify ideas, beliefs and values of people and groups in the past
- VCHHK090
The effects of a significant development or event on a colony
- VCHHC084
Describe perspectives and identify ideas, beliefs and values of people and groups in the past
- VCHHK090
The effects of a significant development or event on a colony
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACHASSK108
The impact of a significant development or event on an Australian colony
- ACHASSK107
The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) and how the environment changed

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