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HASS F-6 / Year 5 / Knowledge and understanding / History
Curriculum content descriptions
the impact of the development of British colonies in Australia on the lives of First Nations Australians, the colonists and convicts, and on the natural environment (AC9HS5K02)
Elaborations
- investigating colonial life to discover what life was like at that time for different inhabitants (for example, a First Nations Australian community and a European community, a convict and a free settler, a “squatter”, a sugarcane farmer and an indentured labourer), the challenges they faced and responses they made in terms of clothing, access to food and water, leisure, paid and unpaid work, use of technologies, shopping or trade, language, housing and children’s lives
- mapping settlement patterns in the 1800s, noting factors that shaped these patterns (for example, geographical features, climate, access to land for farming and grazing, water resources, the discovery of gold, transport and access to port facilities) and the impact these settlement patterns had on the local environment and its ecosystems (for example, comparing the present and past landscape, and the flora and fauna of the local community, including introduced species)
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ScOT terms
Frontier conflict, Aboriginal history, Social history, Colonies, Torres Strait Islander history, Rail transport