The Era of Exploration Assessment Task
This assessment has been created to align with the Year 4 Australian Curriculum HASS Inquiry Skills, Knowledge and Understandings for History. Students demonstrate their understanding of the causes of the British colony in Australia in 1788. In addition, they demonstrate their knowledge of world exploration, great explorers and what life was like in Britain during the 1700s.
Learning goals
- We are learning to understand 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.
- We are learning to understand the journeys of world navigators or explorers up to the late eighteenth century.
Curriculum alignment
VCHHC066
Sequence significant events in chronological order to create a narrative about one navigator, explorer or trader and Australian settlement
VCHHC070
Identify and explain the causes and effects of European settlement and exploration
VCHHK079
The journey(s) of a significant world navigator, explorer or trader up to the late eighteenth century, including their contacts with and effects on other societies
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.