AC9HS4K02 Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

the causes of the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788

Elaborations

• 1 examining the journeys of one or more explorers who sailed parts of the route to Australia, such as Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan, using navigation maps to reconstruct their journeys, in order to investigate how exploration and knowledge of routes allowed for the later feasible settlement of Australia
• 2 examining journeys of the Australian coastline of one or more explorers (for example, Dirk Hartog, Abel Tasman, James Cook, Comte de la Perouse, Willem Jansz) using navigation maps to reconstruct their journeys, in order to investigate the possibility of countries settling Australia to expand their empires
• 3 describing the journeys of James Cook, and that of Joseph Banks, and their role in the establishment of a British colony in Australia, including reference to Cook’s “secret instructions”
• 4 investigating the reasons for the colonisation of Australia, including Britain needing a penal colony, the impact of the American War of Independence, the creation of a base in the global south and resources

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