Amazing treasure trove of activities and source materials to help you to further explore the world of 18th and 19th century convict transportation from Britain to Australia. A variety of teaching and learning strategies should be used to assist students to reflect on their own learning. Although these resources focus primarily on history, the Voyage Game has many curriculum connections in subject areas such as English, Mathematics, Science, Visual Arts, Computer Science and Technology as well as the cross-curriculum priorities.

What is Historical Literacy and why teach it?

While most kids today are fretting about the latest iPad or sneakers, children in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century routinely shouldered much of the responsibility of family life — particularly if the working male in the family fell ill or died. Author Edwin Barnard has written a book looking at the lives of the largely forgotten element of the colonial period; working class children.