Description
Available for Digital Download
Formatted for Windows or Mac
School Price
$40 with an unlimited site licence
(An unlimited site licence allows installation on a server network and/or any number of computers within the school, including personal computers of enrolled students, and allows students to retain, and/or burn to disk, a working copy of their project for their personal record.)
The First Fleet – History Project is centered on a twelve minute audio-visual narrative that combines drawings, narration, music and sound effects to give a broad overview of the first British fleet to Australia.
The First Fleet – History Project is designed to fully meet the requirements of the F-10 National History Curriculum for Australian schools at Year 4 and Year 5.
The program develops students’ historical knowledge, understanding and skills in response to the key inquiry questions of the F-10 National History Curriculum for Year 4 – First Contacts.
- Why did the great journeys of exploration occur?
- What was life like for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples before the arrival of the Europeans?
- Why did the Europeans settle in Australia?
- What was the nature and consequence of contact between Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples and early traders, explorers and settlers?
and Year 5 – The Australian Colonies
- 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?
