HASS F-6 / Year 5 / Knowledge and understanding / History

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This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series and tracks the fictional experiences of Davey, a young boy in 1838 in Australia. In this clip, we see Davey and his friend witness a bushranger on the run from some local soldiers, and they misdirect the soldiers to ensure his swift escape. This clip depicts Davey's ...

• TLF-IDM009346

This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series and tracks the fictional experiences of Johanna, a young girl in 1848 in Australia. There is an accompanying set of downloadable worksheets. One activity asks students to consider the ways in which houses in the 1840s reflected their owner's wealth and status. Another ...

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This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series and tracks the experiences of young boys Ben and Leck in 1858 in Australia. This clip shows the boys working together to repair a broken clock. They discuss a racist slur about Chinese people that Ben has heard from an adult. In this clip we see Ben and Leck working ...

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This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series and tracks the experiences of young girls Minna and Adelaide in 1868 in Australia. In this clip, Minna and Adelaide confess to stealing the lantern from the Chinese family in town. There is an accompanying set of downloadable worksheets which focus on some of the rules ...

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This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series and tracks the experiences of young girls Minna and Adelaide in 1868 in Australia. In this clip, the children play the nineteenth century game 'Bloody Mary' and scare each other with stories about what she is like. Minna is offered some money for a dare. There is an ...

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This 3-minute film clip is from the ABC My Place series and tracks the experiences of young boys Henry and Franklin in 1878 in Australia. In this clip, the boys invent 'The spoon cranking dough churner' to make working life easier for their friend. There is an accompanying set of downloadable worksheets which focus on inventions ...

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What were the Gold Rushes? Why did people from all over the world get ‘gold fever’? What was life like on the Ballarat goldfields of Victoria, on Wada Wurrung Country? With so many different groups of people, how did everyone get along? Did First Nations people mine gold too? What was the Eureka Stockade? How did the Gold ...

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This module provides resources and interactive classroom activities for studying colonial Australia in the nineteenth century. Students engage with texts, images, and objects to learn about the significant events and people that shaped the Australian colonies, and the effects of colonisation on the environment. The resource ...

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This unit of work has been written to support the book Albert Namatjira in which award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira tells the life story of his great-grandfather, Albert Namatjira, one of Australia’s best-known artists. This unit includes practical ideas for using this book in your classroom.

• TLF-IDR3297

This is a black-and-white print, measuring 17.7 cm x 21.6 cm, created from a wood engraving. It shows two men seated on a horse-drawn, two-wheeled buggy. Nine miners are gathered by the buggy, awaiting the delivery of letters, reading letters or newspapers and exchanging news. Although not visible on this image, the title ...