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The First Fleet - dataset collections

Dataset The First Fleet - dataset collections

TLF ID M007943

The dataset provides information about 780 of the convicts transported to Australia on the First Fleet ships 'Alexander', 'Charlotte', 'Lady Penrhyn', 'Friendship', 'Prince of Wales' and 'Scarborough' in 1788. The dataset includes information on items such as the convict's name, occupation, crime, date of trial and term of transportation. The dataset is in MS Excel format.

Tags: convict convictions
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Educational details

Educational value
  • Provides raw data about some of the convicts who sailed on the First Fleet transportation ships for students to explore, question and analyse.
  • Provides information, where available, about the convicts such as their name, background, date and place of trial, crime, term of sentence, name of ship on which the convict sailed, departure date and date of death.
  • Links to explanatory notes about sources of the data and definition of terms, and provides further resources.
  • Provides opportunities for teachers to devise a range of learning tasks using raw data for different learning areas and year levels.
  • Links to units of work that integrate the dataset into challenging learning activities in Mathematics and History.
Year level

4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12

Topics Aboriginal history Cultural interaction Crime Tables (Data) Migration Australian history Column graphs Sampling (Statistics) Data analysis Data representation Data collection Mode Reasoning Critical thinking Colonies Penal colonies International trade Data continuity Penal transportation Convicts First contact Evidence Spreadsheets Explorers Exploration Picture graphs Torres Strait Islander history Discrete data Categorical data Authenticity (Texts) Significant people
Learning area
  • Humanities and social sciences
  • History
  • Mathematics

Other details

Contributors
  • Author
  • Name: State Library of New South Wales
  • Organization: State Library of New South Wales
  • Description: Author
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Name: State Library of New South Wales
  • Organization: State Library of New South Wales
  • Description: Author
  • Address: NSW, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: State Library of New South Wales
  • Organization: State Library of New South Wales
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: NSW, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: https://data.gov.au/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Generic
Learning Resource Type
  • Online
Rights
  • With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and where otherwise noted, material presented on data.gov.au is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence