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Exploring Kamay

Learning objects Exploring Kamay

TLF ID M025769

This resource explores the landscape of Kamay Botany Bay, as well as the technology discovered by the crew aboard the HMB Endeavour in 1770. This resource is one part of the 'Endeavour – eight days in Kamay' resource.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • This resource can be used by students as part of a guided inquiry or for independent inquiry, depending on the ability of the students. The resource draws heavily on primary sources including excerpts from 1770 journals, sketches and illustrations, as well as contemporary videos and photographs.
  • The resource comprises three sets of activities, organised as three tabs. Activities within each tab can stand alone and do not need to be completed sequentially.
Year level

7; 8

Topics Aboriginal peoples Cultural interaction Creating texts Decision making Pollution Word meanings Asia Maps (Geographic location) Attitudes Australia Australian history Canoes Values (Psychology) Water resources Data representation Data collection Landforms Human settlements Reasoning Natural heritage Terrorism Evidence Judgement Impartiality Text types Fieldwork Geographical information systems Chronological order Causality Historical periods Referencing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Historical inquiry Historical sources Research questions Sense of place Wellbeing
Learning area
  • Humanities and social sciences
  • Geography
  • History

Other details

Contributors
  • Author
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: author
  • Contributor
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: author
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: Data contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Publisher
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: Publisher
  • 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
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © State of New South Wales, Department of Education.