Humanities and social sciences / Year 4 / Knowledge and Understanding / History

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Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

Curriculum content descriptions

Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their experiences following arrival (ACHASSK085)

Elaborations

investigating reasons for the First Fleet journey, including an examination of the wide range of crimes punishable by transportation, and looking at the groups who were transported
investigating attitudes to the poor, the treatment of prisoners at that time, and the social standing of those who travelled to Australia on the First Fleet, including families, children and convict guards
investigating daily life in the Botany Bay penal settlement and challenges experienced by the people there and how they were managed

General capabilities

Critical and creative thinking
Intercultural understanding

ScOT terms

Convicts, Penal transportation, Colonies, First contact

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