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History Year 5 Level Description
The Australian Colonies
The Year 5 curriculum provides a study of colonial Australia in the 1800s. Students look at the founding of British colonies and the development of a colony. They learn about what life was like...
Key enquiry questions
- What do we know about the lives of people in Australia’s colonial past and how do we know?
- How did an Australian colony develop over time and why?
- How did colonial settlement change the environment?
- What were the significant events and who were the significant people that shaped Australian colonies?
Historical Knowledge & Understanding
The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony; for example, explorers, farmers, entrepreneurs, artists, writers, humanitarians, religious and political leaders, and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples. (ACHHK097)
- investigating the contribution or significance of an individual or group to the shaping of a colony in the 1800s (eg groups such as explorers or pastoralists; or individuals such as Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth, G.J.Macdonald, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, Caroline Chisholm, Saint Mary MacKillop, Peter Lalor, James Unaipon)
- exploring the motivations and actions of an individual or group that shaped a colony.