Year 4 First Contact
Why Did The Great Journeys Of Exploration Occur?
The Dawning of the Era of Exploration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yExw1YNK27U
Age of Exploration and Discovery
http://www.ducksters.com/history/renaissance/age_of_exploration_and_discovery.php
BBC Christopher Columbus
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/christopher_columbus/
Columbus Game
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/walk/index.shtml
The Spanish Quest For Terra Australis - State Library Resource
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/queiros/index.html
Australian History Website
http://australianhistorymysteries.info/resource-zone/primary-exploration/index.php
Journey of the First Fleet
youtube video links:
Early Explorers of Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxKtrrNlQoQ
Christopher Columbus Discovers America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvcb1IK6aw0
Unit Outline Link
Duyfken 1606 Replica - Linked directly to Curriculum
http://www.duyfken.com/Schools/Links_to_Australian_curriculum
Unit of Work- First Contact
Timeline Maker
http://www.softschools.com/teacher_resources/timeline_maker/
How Aborigines came to Australia
http://panique.com.au/trishansoz/aborigine/aborigin.html
Aboriginal culture the oldest continuous culture
Aboriginal culture before white colonisation
http://www.aboriginalculture.com.au/index.shtml
Aboriginal medicine
Some animals that Aboriginals lived with thousands of years ago:
My Place TV series
http://www.abc.net.au/abc3/myplace/
Aboriginal language map
http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/
Dust echoes -animations of indigenous stories
Indigenous Language Map
http://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia
Aboriginal Desert Art
http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1436318/connecting-with-aboriginal-desert-art
Why Did Europeans Settle in Australia?
State Library Resources
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/services/learning_at_the_Library/curriculum_stages/stage2.html
Female Convicts of the First Fleet
What was the nature and consequence of contact between Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people and early traders, explorers and settlers?
- Terra Nullius fact Sheet
- http://www.racismnoway.com.au/teaching-resources/factsheets/10.html
- My Place first contact videos
- http://www.abc.net.au/abc3/myplace/
- Disease & population loss
- http://www.australianstogether.org.au/stories/detail/colonisation
- Text of formal apology
- http://www.racismnoway.com.au/teaching-resources/factsheets/70.html
- Skwirk Consequences of British colonisation for Aboriginal People
- http://www.skwirk.com/p-c_s-17_u-504_t-1361_c-5239/qld/sose/colonisation-resources-power-and-exploration/british-colonisation-of-australia/consequences-of-british-colonisation-for-aboriginal-people
- Coastal Aborigines in the 1920s
- http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4358901.htm
- 1967 referendum giving Aborigines right to vote
- http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs150.aspx
- Indigenous land rights
- http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/land/native-title#toc3
- SorryDay speech video
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKWfiFp24rA
- Aboriginal life expectancy statistics and facts
- http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/health/aboriginal-life-expectancy#axzz3uWtMiZer
- Famous Aboriginal people & role models
- http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/famous-aboriginal-people-role-models#axzz3uWtMiZer
- Aboriginal sporting achievements
- http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/sport/#axzz3uWtMiZer
- Video of Cathy Freeman winning gold medal
- http://www.olympic.org/videos/cathy-freeman-takes-gold-in-sydney