Creating a Colony
This worksheet outlines an assessment task that is designed to help your students better understand what factors lead to the development of Australian settlements, specifically where they are located.
This worksheet was created as part of a larger Year 5 History unit designed to cover the history up to federation, including:
- Early First Nations history
- Captain Cook and the First Fleet
- Early colony and convict life
- The Frontier Wars
- The gold rush
- Bushrangers
- Eureka Stockade
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand the nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including First Nations Australians) and how the environment changed.
- We are learning to understand the role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony.
- We are learning to understand the reasons (economic, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800.
- We are learning to understand the impact of a significant development or event on an Australian colony.
- We are learning to understand the nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) and how the environment changed.
- We are learning to understand the reasons people migrated to Australia and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony.
Curriculum alignment
AC9HS5K03
9
The role of a significant individual or group, including First Nations Australians and those who migrated to Australia, in the development of events in an Australian colony
AC9HS5K02
9
The impact of the development of British colonies in Australia on the lives of First Nations Australians, the colonists and convicts, and on the natural environment
AC9HS5S05
9
Develop evidence-based conclusions
AC9HS5S01
9
Develop questions to investigate people, events, developments, places and systems
AC9HS5K01
9
The economic, political and social causes of the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800
AC9HS5S04
9
Evaluate primary and secondary sources to determine origin, purpose and perspectives
AC9HS5S02
9
Locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources in a range of formats
AC9HS5S03
9
Evaluate information and data in a range of formats to identify and describe patterns and trends, or to infer relationships
AC9HS5S07
9
Present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions
ACHASSI099
8.4
Examine different viewpoints on actions, events, issues and phenomena in the past and present
ACHASSI098
8.4
Examine primary sources and secondary sources to determine their origin and purpose
ACHASSI101
8.4
Evaluate evidence to draw conclusions
ACHASSI100
8.4
Interpret data and information displayed in a range of formats to identify, describe and compare distributions, patterns and trends, and to infer relationships
ACHASSI097
8.4
Sequence information about people’s lives, events, developments and phenomena using a variety of methods including timelines
ACHASSI096
8.4
Organise and represent data in a range of formats including tables, graphs and large- and small-scale maps, using discipline-appropriate conventions
ACHASSI095
8.4
Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary sources and secondary sources
ACHASSI105
8.4
Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions
ACHASSI094
8.4
Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges
ACHASSK109
8.4
The reasons people migrated to Australia and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony
ACHASSK106
8.4
Reasons (economic, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800
ACHASSK108
8.4
The impact of a significant development or event on an Australian colony
ACHASSK110
8.4
The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony
ACHASSK107
8.4
The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) and how the environment changed
GE3-4
old
Acquires, processes and communicates geographical information using geographical tools for inquiry
HT3-4
old
Describes and explains the struggles for rights and freedoms in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
HT3-3
old
Identifies change and continuity and describes the causes and effects of change on Australian society
HT3-5
old
Applies a variety of skills of historical inquiry and communication
HT3-2
old
Describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time
HT3-1
old
Describes and explains the significance of people, groups, places and events to the development of Australia
VCHHC086
Explain the causes of significant events that shaped the Australian colonies, contributed to Australian Federation and the effects of these on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and migrants
VCHHK088
The social, economic and political causes and reasons for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800
VCHHK090
The effects of a significant development or event on a colony
VCGGC090
Interpret maps and other geographical data and information using digital and spatial technologies as appropriate, to develop identifications, descriptions, explanations and conclusions that use geographical terminology
VCHHK089
The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced changing patterns of development, how the environment changed, and aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
VCGGC089
Represent the location of places and other types of geographical data and information in different forms including diagrams, field sketches and large-scale and small-scale maps that conform to cartographic conventions of border, scale, legend, title, north point and source; using digital and spatial technologies as appropriate
VCHHK092
The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping and changing a colony
VCGGC088
Collect and record relevant geographical data and information from the field and secondary sources, using ethical protocols
VCHHC085
Identify and describe patterns of continuity and change in daily life for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, ‘native born’ and migrants in the Australian colonies
VCHHC083
Identify the origin, content features and the purpose of historical sources and describe the context of these sources when explaining daily life in colonial Australia, reasons for migration and causes and effects of Federation
VCHHC087
Explain the significance of an event and an individual or group that influenced change in the Australian colonies and in Australian society since Federation
VCHHC082
Sequence significant events and lifetimes of people in chronological order to create a narrative to explain the developments in Australia’s colonial past and the causes and effects of Federation on its people
VCHHK091
The causes and the reasons why people migrated to Australia from Europe and Asia, and the perspectives, experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Extensions
This worksheet works well with some of the physical and human geography components included in the Year 5 geography unit ‘Australia’s Connections to the World’.