Learning Intentions

Inquiry Question

What were the significant events and who were the significant people that shaped Australian colonies?


Task Description

Research significant people and events from the 1800s in Australia. Create a What If? Scenario that changes history. Describe what would have happened if this scenario became reality.

EXAMPLES

What if … gold was found in the town of Burra, South Australia?

What if … Ned Kelly had not been captured at Glenrowan?

Inquiry Process

Stage 1 – Identify

Brainstorm questions and key words you could use to research.

Stage 2 – Locate

Use the Library Research Guide to learn about significant events and people in colonial Australia.

Stage 3 – Evaluate

Evaluate the resources selected for your research.

Stage 4 – Apply

Use your knowledge to create a What If? Scenario. Describe what would have happened if this scenario became reality.

Stage 5 – Reflect

Reflect on the inquiry process.


Learning Intentions: Students

Knowledge and Understanding

I can describe how important people and events shaped Australian colonies.

Cross-curriculum Priority

I can explain how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People were affected by the people and events that shaped Australian colonies.

Technology

I can use search strategies to find information that is useful and appropriate.

I can use technology safely and responsibly.

Critical and Creative Thinking

I can ask questions that help to guide my research.

I can identify useful and appropriate information and ideas.

I can organise the information that I find.

I can use my imagination to create new ideas.

Literacy

I can read, view, and listen to information.

I can understand and respond to information.


Learning Intentions: Teachers

Knowledge and Understanding

ACHASSK108 The impact of a significant development or event on an Australian colony.

ACHASSK110 The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony.

Cross-curriculum Priority

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures OI.6 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples live in Australia as first peoples of Country or Place and demonstrate resilience in responding to historic and contemporary impacts of colonisation.

ICT Capability

Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when using ICT

Students recognise intellectual property, apply digital information security practices, apply personal security protocols, and identify the impacts of ICT in society.

Investigating with ICT

Students define and plan information searches, and locate, generate, select, evaluate, and access data and information.

Critical and Creative Thinking

Inquiring – identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas

Students pose questions, identify and clarify information and ideas, and organise and process information.

Generating ideas, possibilities and actions

Students imagine possibilities and connect ideas, consider alternatives, seek solutions, and put ideas into action.

Literacy

Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing

Students navigate, read and view learning area texts, listen and respond to learning area texts, and interpret and analyse learning area texts.

(Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2010 to present)