Years 4 - 5 · History · Unit Plan · $10.95 AUD
First Fleet and Australian colonies inquiry pack for Year 4–5 History and HASS, styled as a hand-charted mariner's log. This premium multi-page resource guides students through the 1787–1788 voyage from Portsmouth to Sydney Cove using a dated DD/MM/YYYY timeline, a compass-rose mapping task, and a structured primary-source analysis scaffold built on who/what/when/why questioning. A carefully framed three-perspectives task invites students to consider the voyage through the eyes of a convict, a naval officer, and the First Nations peoples of the Sydney region, with the dispossession of Country acknowledged sensitively and factually at an age-appropriate level. A gold-rush economics mini-activity connects the early colony to the 1850s boom, wages, and migration, developing chronology, cause-and-effect, and continuity-and-change concepts. Aligned to Australian Curriculum v9 knowledge and inquiry-skill descriptors (AC9HS4K01, AC9HS5K01–K02 and the HS4/HS5 inquiry strands), the pack includes ruled response space, a vocabulary bank, an inquiry rubric, a complete answer key, and teacher notes with cultural-safety guidance. Ready to print for classroom or relief use, it supports differentiated whole-class, small-group, and independent learning across several lessons.
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