HASS F-6 / Year 4 / Skills / Interpreting, analysing and evaluating

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This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series and follows the fictional experiences of Alice, a young girl in 1828 in Australia. In this clip, she learns about the convict history of Freddie as she and Freddie work to ‘fix’ a pig race. There is an accompanying set of downloadable worksheets. One history-related ...

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This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series. It is about the experiences of young boys Henry and Franklin in 1788 in Australia. In the late 19th century, laws about when and how long children could work were very different to today; this video shows what that working experience might have been like. There is ...

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In 1770, Captain Cook got secret instructions to find the ‘Great South Land’ and subsequently The Endeavour sailed into Kamay Botany Bay, the land of the Gweagal people. How did the Gweagal people meet Captain Cook and his crew? How did they communicate? What happened over the eight days that Captain Cook stayed in Botany ...

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This resource guides students through an extended school-based or local investigation focussed on waste and materials using the five-step sustainability action process. The resource supports the investigation of a real-world issue or problem. Students develop and implement a chosen sustainability action and then evaluate ...

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This resource guides students through an extended school-based or local investigation focussed on kitchen gardens using the five-step sustainability action process. The resource supports the investigation of a real-world issue or problem. Students develop and implement a chosen sustainability action and then evaluate and ...

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This is a 1911 black-and-white sepia-toned photograph, taken by Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) at the South Pole, of a dog team hitched to a loaded sled on the snow. A figure dressed in Arctic-style cold weather gear stands beside the sled and a Norwegian flag is stuck in the snow. Apart from three other dogs tethered behind ...

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Many ancient cultures studied the night sky, and we know this because it is reflected in some of the earliest stories we have on record. Learn about one of these stories in this video. Other than the Dreamtime stories, what other evidence might there be that the Aboriginal people studied the stars?

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This is a photo-engraving, approximately 52.5 cm x 69.0 cm in size, depicting two men in front of a farm greeting a party of visitors. It shows Edward Henty shaking the hand of Major Thomas Mitchell, who is on horseback. They are watched by a man standing on the left-hand side and by four members of Mitchell's party on ...

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Aboriginal Tasmanians had inhabited Tasmania for over 40,000 years before the arrival of European settlers. What do you think life was like for Aboriginal Tasmanians before then? Why might have they embarked on a war, called the 'Black War', once settlers began arriving in Tasmania, despite existing relatively peacefully ...

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This is a coloured printed invitation to a conversazione celebrating the Commonwealth of Australia. It measures 30.2 cm x 37 cm. At the bottom is the wording, 'THE GOVERNMENT OF VICTORIA requests the honor of the presence of Mr W J Ferguson MLA and Mrs Ferguson at a Conversazione in the Exhibition Building on the Evening ...