This site can be used as a resource to further build on the work done using the interactive indigenous language map. The resource is a section of The Australian Museum’s website entitled Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney. There are various categories on the page including ‘Introduction to Aboriginal Sydney’, ‘Research Projects’, ‘Fish and fishing’, ‘Canoes’ and ‘Food from the sea’.

Of particular interest though, in relation to the indigenous language map, are the categories ‘Place names’ and ‘Clan names and language groups’. In the ‘Place names’ category there is a place names chart. This chart gives the names of current locations in and around Sydney such as Manly Cove or Chowder Bay and provides the Aboriginal name equivalent for that location. Teachers could provide students with a blank map of Sydney and get groups of students to identify a number of different locations and provide the Aboriginal name for those locations. Then each group could contribute their findings to a large blank map on the wall to provide a detailed map of Sydney with Aboriginal names of every location.

This site is also a great resource for painting a broader picture of Aboriginal culture in coastal Sydney in the sense that it explores what the diet of these people were like and how they went about catching their food with traditional fishing gear such as net bags, spears and canoes.

To follow on from this activity teachers could invite an Aboriginal community leader form the local area to the school. The community leader could potentially teach the class a traditional song, sung in their native language. Once students had learned the traditional song, they could perform it to another class or in school assembly. This activity would satisfy outcomes in the creative arts syllabus under MUS3.1. Students could then hold an interview with the community leader, asking any questions they have in regards to Indigenous culture. This activity would also satisfy ‘Speaking and Listening’ outcomes for stage 3 in the English syllabus.

What was life like for the First Fleet? Great background information for primary teachers. The historian Grace Karskens will give a lecture at the State Library NSW in April. Click on link for details.

Explore this online map of Australia in 1798-1803 in the time of Matthew Flinders.

Very interesting maps of early Australia.

there were many different methods that they used to get here. some of them include maps photos and books.

this sight is useful because it has the journals of the first fleet

Diarys' and Pictures made by convicts. in 1788 and beyond.

This interactive timeline technology allows you to create a mashup using maps, text, video and pictures.

Create a story of Australia's history using this online interactive timeline technology that allows you to combine maps, photos, video and text.

Another useful online digital collection for teaching history. 

An insight into the early exploration of Australia and Cooks discoveries with reserence to the importnace of the Endeavor Journal in documenting this. 

There are some great focus questions and exploratory questions provided for teacher to use. The questions address the importance of the artifact to history, how Indigenous people might react to Cook and a deconstruction of a cartoon. 

HSIE Lesson Activity: The class watches the video clip and then i independently answer the comprehension questions, so they have time to consider what they have learnt. They as a class they teacher models 'mantle of the expert' where the "students are given expert status to explore"... the newly learnt information (Gibson and Ewing, 2011, p.53). The teacher becomes a visitor to the national library in Canberra where the journal is held and wants to find out all about the journal. So the teacher asks the students who are now the 'experts' investigative questions to learn about the journal (these questions hark back to the discussion questions the students answered independently after viewing the clip so they have already thought through a response). 

Alternate video links: http://www.nationaltreasures.com.au/treasures/endeavorj/downloads/endeavorj_pr.mp4

http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/module/217/

Useful link to an art history lesson idea:

http://www.nationaltreasures.com.au/treasures/endeavorj/further_art.html

Extension information on Captian Cook for further research: 

http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/module/1313/

http://www.filmaust.com.au/captaincook/

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/captaincook/

http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/module/1155/

Great for HSIE Stage 3

This website contains great information which I believe would be appealing to students as it is about the 'secrets' and hints that were made about Captain Cook and his voyage.There is a 'treasure' which are secret maps of Cook's as well as diary entries. There is a lot of text, but I believe it will be interesting as students are to decode the information to find what secrets Cook was hiding in the letters provided. There are extracts from Cook's secret instructions as well as Lord Morton's hints to Captain Cook. The questions that are provided on the website require higher order thinking especially as the answers need to be thought of based on the text, instead of finding the answers in the text as a simple comprehension. I quite like the associated classroom activities for primary school as it provides a range of different activities under the headings: Remember, understand, communicate, create, investigate & ICT. I think it is good that there are a range of activities as it allows the teacher to assign different activities to students who can only work effectively in one learning form for example or for those who need extra practice with computers or public speakign for example. As a result of this, it does touch on literacy outcomes and in turn increasing the range of students abilities, especially for NAPLAN preparation. The National Library of Australia has created these resources in a way that makes students feel like they are investigating and important, rather than just doing work or comprehending which is very important.

An excellent resource for educators to use in their lesson planning.

A great resource to explain the origins of English culture and language of Australia.

Description of what is on this site:

Directed and produced by Rachel Perkins, an Arrernte woman from Central Australia, First Australians, specifically Episode 1, excellently  'explains changes in the community and family life' experienced by the Aboriginal peoples at the time of the arrival of the First Fleet and beyond. This episode 'evaluates the effects of these' changes 'on individuals' such as Bennelong. The information at http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/terra_australis/education/bennelong/bennelong_extracts.pdf could prove a useful follow-up resource. This is one of the resources selected using selection criteria such as whether the creator of the work is Aboriginal.

The effects of these changes on groups of Aboriginal people are illustrated, such as those experienced by the Aboriginal people of Warang (Sydney). It also enables the audience to evaluate the effects of these changes on 'environments' due to British settlement. Allen Madden from the Gadigal Clan, talking of Captain Philip, explains that "...immediately he orders trees to be chopped down and land to be cleared..." (Perkins, 2008).

A teaching idea:

Children could be asked to write down what stands out to them as they watch the episode, after which time they pair and share and then share their partners response with the class. Teacher can display mind-map of ideas on interactive whiteboard and students can research one of the first Australians mentioned in the episode and present some of the ideas in the mind map in relation to CCS2.2, from the perspective of that first Australian.

An idea for an assessment task:

In order to assess the learning of the students on how well they can fulfill the HSIE outcome CCS2.2, perhaps after giving them a few lessons to research the changes and their impacts, I would ask them to write a speech from the perspective of a particular Aboriginal person or group. 

Literacy strategy/links to English KLA:

This could also fulfill some of the outcomes for the English K-6 Syllabus such as EN2-6B in that writing a speech requires students to 'distinguish between different forms of English' as they 'plan and deliver short presentations'.

References:

Hunter, J. (1788). The Taking of Colbee and Bennalong.

Retrieved from the State Library of NSW website: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/terra_australis/education/bennelong/bennelong_extracts.pdf

Perkins, R. (Director and Producer). (2008). First Australians

[Motion picture]. Australia: Blackfella Films.