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Units – Stage 3 Early White Settlement

Subjects:

Art, Language Arts, Social Studies

Grades:

5, 6

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Resources

Guided reading

In Days Gone By – Reading Rigby Australian History, Levels 4 – 10
Titles:
- By Horse and Buggy
- Our First Town
- A Road For Everyone
- The Wreck of the Quetta
- Smithy
- Saddlebags to Satellites
- Eureka Stockade
Concepts: change, development, technology, growth, time span, explorers
Focus: people, places, events, transport, communication
Questions:
- What happened?
- When did it take place?
- Who was involved?
- Why was it important?
- What effect does it have on people today?
Activities:
- Read aloud books on:
  - famous Australians -
  - historical fiction -
  - biography -
  - past eras -
- Research – Use the above and other texts
- Build timelines
- Trace history of Australia through Australian literature
  - The Devil Stone. H Francis
  - A Swag of Stories. L Garfield
  - The Green Wind. L Gleeson
  - Enora and the black crane. A Meeks
  - Playing Beatie Bow. Ruth Park
  - Dick Roughsey books
  - A Saddle at Bontharambo. H Samuel
  - Lillypilly Hill. E Spence
  - Midnite. Randolph Stow
  - Storm Boy. C Thiele
  - My Place. N Wheatley

Shared Reading

Ashton Scholastic History of Australia, Clark, Hooper & Ferrier: Bound for Botany Bay p. 24-26
Australia and New Zealand Enclyclopedia – First Fleet
The Story of Australia, H. Blanche: The Voyage Out of the First Australian Settlers p.17-24
School Magazine V N The Convict Boys of Old Sydney, Beverley Earnshaw
History of Australia, Clark, Hooper & Ferrier: Finding the Fourth Side p. 18-23
James Cook 1770-1970 (Untitled booklet)

Comprehension

Story of Australia V 1 Discovery, Tim Cattell
Skillbuilders Reading Comprehension Level B. Aylward.
- Captain Cook’s journal p. 40
- A painful fall (Midnite) p.56
- Boy in a storm (Storm Boy) p. 58
Explorers of Australia, S & R Coupe
- The Unknown South Land
- Portuguese and Spanish Explorers
- Early Dutch and English Explorers
- The Wreck of the Batavia
- Abel Tasman
- James Cook
Kangaroo Creek Gang Present From the Past
- Video and activities booklet
  - Captain James Cook
  - Navigation
  - The Birthday Present
  - Building the Endeavour Replica
  - Not So Fresh
  - Word Sleuth
Comprehension Checkpoints, Book 3, Norman & Fletcher
- James Cook p. 8
The First Fleet and Early Sydney, Leyden Resource Book
Skillbuilders Reading Comprehension Level C. Aylward
- Our continent p. 28
- Australia’s flag p. 62

Close

Close in on Themes Book 1, H Fletcher p. 1-6
- Dirk Hartog
- Abel Tasman
- William Dampier
- James Cook,
- The discovery of Australia
- Word Search
Close in on Themes Book 1, H Fletcher p. 7-17
- The beginning
- The First Fleet
- The First Settlement
- Problems of the first settlement
- Convicts: Transported to Australia
- Convicts: Set to work
- First Fleet Wordsearch

Research

Communities, David Mahony, Indigenous Australians p 44-55
Communities, David Mahony, Settler Communities p 56-76
Australian History John & Anna Tilbrook (BLM Macmillan Resource Library)
Our Great Land Leanne Roles & Lynn Lockett (Australian history BLM)
Aboard Endeavour: Cook’s Voyage 1768-1771, Bruce Stannard
Map History of Australia, Wynd & Wood
Heritage Maths Richard & Hilaire Lyon

Word Lists

Music

Australian History in Song: Bound For Botany Bay. Edwards & Baker
Djipana
Farewell to Old England Forever
Bound For Botany Bay

Poetry

Wild Colonial Boy

Videos

Kangaroo Creek Gang Present From the Past Video and activities booklet

Excursions

Old Sydney Town
The Rocks
NSW Art Gallery

Computers

Explorers database
Notorious Ned
First Fleet database
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego,
Kids Pix
Clarisworks

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