AC9HS4K04 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 effects of contact with other people on First Nations Australians and their Countries/Places following the arrival of the First Fleet and how this was viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion

Elaborations

• 1 investigating contact between First Nations Australians and people from different continents (Asia and Europe) before 1788; for example, the repulsion of the Dutch at Cape Keerweer in 1606, trade, sharing of ideas and technologies
• 2 exploring early contact of First Nations Australians with the British, including individuals such as Pemulwuy, Windradyne and Bennelong, and considering the differing perspectives of the interactions between Europeans and First Nations Australians, and how interactions could be interpreted as negative for one group and positive for the other
• 3 examining paintings and accounts by individuals involved in exploration and colonisation to explore the impact that British colonisation had on the lives of First Nations Australians; for example, dispossession, dislocation and the loss of lives through frontier conflict, disease, and loss of food sources and medicines, the embrace of some colonial technologies, the practice of colonial religion, and intermarriage between colonists and Australian First Nations Peoples

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