history - Australian colonies
Key Inquiry Questions:
What do we know about the lives of people in Australia’s colonial past and how do we know?
How did an Australian colony develop over time and why?
How did colonial settlement change the environment?
What were the significant events and who were the significant people that shaped Australian colonies?
What do we know about the lives of people in Australia’s colonial past and how do we know?
How did an Australian colony develop over time and why?
How did colonial settlement change the environment?
What were the significant events and who were the significant people that shaped Australian colonies?
click on the links below to help your investigations
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More links on indigenous life
"Dust Echoes" ABC website Animated Dreamtime Stories
"My Place" Website
Invasion and Resistance Kit– BOS
Colonisation - Era 1
First Australians -SBS Timeline of Aboriginal Impact
A Letter from Bennelong
"My Place" Website
Invasion and Resistance Kit– BOS
Colonisation - Era 1
First Australians -SBS Timeline of Aboriginal Impact
A Letter from Bennelong
Lives and Stories of COlonial Women in Australia
In your groups you will investigate the lives of one of five different colonial women; Trukanini, Theresa Sutcliffe Mort, Mary Windeyer, Caroline Chisholm or Lola Montez.
You will need to share back with the class:
- the key moments/ big ideas about her life
- what it has helped you to learn or infer about life in the Australian colonies
- what it has helped you to learn or infer about life for colonial women
Click on the link below to engage with their story and look at their portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, Australia and then use the other links to learn more about the life of your Colonial woman.
START HERE - education.abc.net.au/home#!/digibook/1401161/lives-and-stories-of-colonial-women
Read the 'Prologue' and then go to the chapter for your Colonial woman.
THEN - click on the image of your Colonial woman to read more about her life.
You can also click the links under her image to learn more.
You will need to share back with the class:
- the key moments/ big ideas about her life
- what it has helped you to learn or infer about life in the Australian colonies
- what it has helped you to learn or infer about life for colonial women
Click on the link below to engage with their story and look at their portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, Australia and then use the other links to learn more about the life of your Colonial woman.
START HERE - education.abc.net.au/home#!/digibook/1401161/lives-and-stories-of-colonial-women
Read the 'Prologue' and then go to the chapter for your Colonial woman.
THEN - click on the image of your Colonial woman to read more about her life.
You can also click the links under her image to learn more.
More links on convict and colonial life
State Library ‘Discover Collections’
Convicts & British Government in Australia
Colonial Life Images Livebinder
A Convict Story - CLIC Interactive
Convict Love Tokens
Lives and stories of Colonial Woman
Women in Colonial Times
Convicts and the British Colonies
A day in the life of a convict
Convicts & British Government in Australia
Colonial Life Images Livebinder
A Convict Story - CLIC Interactive
Convict Love Tokens
Lives and stories of Colonial Woman
Women in Colonial Times
Convicts and the British Colonies
A day in the life of a convict
MOre on The impact of settlement on local Aboriginal peoples and the environment
Watch Episode 23 ‘The Encounter’ from “My Place website” (Aboriginal perspective)
Mapping Aboriginal Settlement 1770-1850 (impact of colonisation on the Aboriginal settlements)
Mapping Aboriginal Settlement 1770-1850 (impact of colonisation on the Aboriginal settlements)
More links to do with the gold rush and bushrangers
USEFUL 'NON-INTERNET' RESOURCES
Remember -
if you open up the PDFs and they are sideways on the screen then you need to click the Ctrl and ] buttons together.
if you open up the PDFs and they are sideways on the screen then you need to click the Ctrl and ] buttons together.
BOOK - 'Life on the Goldfields' - Doug Bradby (multiple copies available in Stage 3 classrooms)
Scanned pdfs from book - 'Society and Environment Book F'
- Australia Strikes Gold
- Gold finds around Australia
- Life on the Goldfields
- The Goldfields and the Aboriginal People
- The Chinese
- Women on the Goldfields
- Significant Individuals (Caroline Chisolm, Peter Lalor, Ben Hall and Paddy Hannon)
- The Eureka Uprising
- Mining and the Environment
Scanned pdfs from the book 'Targeting Society and Environment - Upper Primary'
- Effects of the Gold Rush on people - Part 1
- Effects of the Gold Rush on people - Part 2
- Political effects of the Gold Rush
- Life in the cities during the Gold Rush
Scanned pdfs from other books
- 'The Australian Gold Rushes - Gold Fever' - Kimberley Webber
- 'The Gold Rushes' Part 1 - John and Jennifer Barwick
- 'The Gold Rushes' Part 2 - John and Jennifer Barwick
- 'The Gold Rushes' - Life on the Goldfields - Ann Parry
- 'The Gold Rushes' - The Discovery of Gold - Ann Parry
Scanned pdfs - The Beginnings of the Gold Rush
- 'Discovering Gold' - Getting to the Goldfields - Olga & Mark Fox
- 'Gold Rush' - The discovery of Gold - John & Jennifer Barwick
- 'Gold' - Australia's First Gold Rushes - Brian Carroll
- 'Lure of Gold' - Gold Rush - Anthony Sedunary
- ' Lure of Gold' - All About Gold - Anthony Sedunary
- 'The Gold Rushes' - The Gold Rushes - John & Jennifer Barwick
- 'The Gold Rushes' - Before the Rush - John & Jennifer Barwick
- 'Life on the Goldfields - In Britain - Doug Bradby
- 'Life on the Goldfields - Living There' - NSW Department of Primary Industries
Scanned pdfs from book - 'Society and Environment Book F'
- Australia Strikes Gold
- Gold finds around Australia
- Life on the Goldfields
- The Goldfields and the Aboriginal People
- The Chinese
- Women on the Goldfields
- Significant Individuals (Caroline Chisolm, Peter Lalor, Ben Hall and Paddy Hannon)
- The Eureka Uprising
- Mining and the Environment
Scanned pdfs from the book 'Targeting Society and Environment - Upper Primary'
- Effects of the Gold Rush on people - Part 1
- Effects of the Gold Rush on people - Part 2
- Political effects of the Gold Rush
- Life in the cities during the Gold Rush
Scanned pdfs from other books
- 'The Australian Gold Rushes - Gold Fever' - Kimberley Webber
- 'The Gold Rushes' Part 1 - John and Jennifer Barwick
- 'The Gold Rushes' Part 2 - John and Jennifer Barwick
- 'The Gold Rushes' - Life on the Goldfields - Ann Parry
- 'The Gold Rushes' - The Discovery of Gold - Ann Parry
Scanned pdfs - The Beginnings of the Gold Rush
- 'Discovering Gold' - Getting to the Goldfields - Olga & Mark Fox
- 'Gold Rush' - The discovery of Gold - John & Jennifer Barwick
- 'Gold' - Australia's First Gold Rushes - Brian Carroll
- 'Lure of Gold' - Gold Rush - Anthony Sedunary
- ' Lure of Gold' - All About Gold - Anthony Sedunary
- 'The Gold Rushes' - The Gold Rushes - John & Jennifer Barwick
- 'The Gold Rushes' - Before the Rush - John & Jennifer Barwick
- 'Life on the Goldfields - In Britain - Doug Bradby
- 'Life on the Goldfields - Living There' - NSW Department of Primary Industries
Muslim cameleers in early australia
http://www.cameleers.net/
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2011/07/australias-afghan-cameleers/
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2011/07/australias-afghan-cameleers/
Chinese migration in Australia
Chinese Migration
Images of Chinese migrants on the goldfields
Chinese migrants on the Goldfields - reactions, stereotyping and more - see this page as well as other links on the left of the website
The Chinese Question
The White Australia Polic
Images of Chinese migrants on the goldfields
Chinese migrants on the Goldfields - reactions, stereotyping and more - see this page as well as other links on the left of the website
The Chinese Question
The White Australia Polic