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Welcome to the Colonial Australia Library Research Guide

This research guide is for Year 5 students learning about Australia in the 1800s, also known as the colonial era.

Port Arthur Prison in Tasmania. Image by bangkokflame from Pixabay

The research guide includes:

How To Use the Research Guide

Click on the tabs at the top of the guide to see a list of resources of that type. There are four types of resources:

  1. General Reference
  2. Library Books
  3. Search Engine
  4. Web Resources

Click on the link under the heading of the resource to view that resource.

Click on the link under the heading to view that resource in a new tab.

Each resource has a rating – Easy, Medium, or Hard.

Rating EasyRating Medium

Rating Hard

 

 

Each resource has a set of instructions on how to use it for your research. These can be found below the description of the resource.

You can find the instructions for using a resource directly below the description of the resource.

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