History Program First fleet

Term 3, Year 4, Winthrop PS

ACARA
First Contacts

Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their experiences following arrival. (ACHHK079)

The journey(s) of AT LEAST ONE world navigator, explorer or trader up to the late eighteenth century, including their contacts with other societies and any
impacts. (ACHHK078)
Historical skills

Sequence historical people and events (ACHHS081)

Use historical terms (ACHHS082)

Pose a range of questions about the past (ACHHS083)

Identify sources (ACHHS216)

Locate relevant information from sources provided (ACHHS084)

Identify different points of view (ACHHS085)

Develop texts, particularly narratives (ACHHS086)

Use a range of communication forms (oral, graphic, written) and digital technologies (ACHHS087)

Lesson
First circumnavigation
Map journey
Journal

Description
Read text and use to map journey on atlas
Research the rest of the journey and do in a different
colour

Australia on the map

Who saw it first and Dutch
influence
Placenames in Australia

Using the text from last week and further research of

your own create a journal from Ferdinand Magellans
point of view.
Watch video:
Individual activity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=35&v=OxKtrrNlQoQ
Read text and discussion
Questions about text
Create your own flag with Dutch influence. What would
your flag of Australia look like and its name.
Research and use text to label map of Australia

Captain James Cook and

settlement of Australia
Timeline

Read text and create a timeline poster

Video about James Cook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVYueGy0IMQ

Class layout
Read a whole class on
the mat, choose pop
sticks.
Mapping journey
individual at desks.
Individual activity at
desks

Read as a whole class

Students to highlight
as reading

High achievers
List interesting things
the sailors claimed to
see on this voyage

Resources
P39, 40

Find meanings of any

P41
new vocabulary found
throughout text
Look Western
P44
P45
Australia Museums
shipwreck gallery and
make a list of artefacts
Put the names of the
places in Australia
now
Questions

P47, 48, 49

First Fleet journey

Map journey of First Fleet
Research data base

First Fleet who were the

convicts
Research a First Fleet
convict who became
successful.
Diary.

Read text and watch video of My Place ABC

BTN video about first fleet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnUNEkMsjfY
Use an atlas to map the journey of the First Fleet
Access first fleet data base and find information about 2
profiles
http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/search.aspx
note: search by ship name only to bring up a list of
names
Watch video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZDo_9yd1l4
Read text
See list of convicts and research information about
them.
Chose a convict and write a diary as them. This will be
used for presentation later in term.

Individual activity to
complete timeline
Read as a whole class
Students to highlight
as reading
Individual activity to
complete mapping
and research of 2
profiles

Find out what life was

like for the First Fleet
in Port Jackson.
Food, housing,
punishment, work,
free time.

The First Fleet journey

p51.
Atlas
Map of world.
Dates to map.

Read silent individual

Prepare for
reading
presentation
Individual activity to
Type diary
complete research and
write article

Who were the

convicts of the First
Fleet? P55.
Questions and names
of convicts to choose.

Whole class discussion

Individual activity

Type recount

Notes from excursion

Individual activity

Find new vocabulary

P56 and 55
in the text (p55) and
write what you think it
means and dictionary
meanings

Individual
presentations.
Reading diary with
their costume and
props

NA

Before excursion activity

8

Excursion Recount
Fremantle Prison and
Maritime Museum

First Fleet who were the

convicts
Comparing life before and
after transportation

10

Convict presentations

Assessment

Write a recount of the excursion from last week

Brainstorm and discuss interesting things from excursion
prior to writing
Draft and thinking time
Writing time
Watch exerts from Oliver Twist to show life in Britain.
Use text and laptops to research life in London and
Sydney Cove after transportation. Compare shelter,
food, water, weather, daily life.
Explain where you would have preferred to be and why.
Use recount/diary to create a presentation as a convict
and telling about your life
Costumes and props from home

Recount/diary of a
convict (from week 7)

Formative
Anecdotal/formative:
Mark student work as completed
Rubric:
Class rubric with ongoing record
Summative:
Oral presentation

Teacher resource: Australian Curriculum History: First contacts, RIC Publications