This is where you’ll find more detailed information about the topic. There are also different perspectives you will need to explore. After scanning through the list you also need to decide the focus for your research.
Consider the following questions:
What information do you really need?
How relevant is it to the area of your focus?
How credible is the source of your information?
(The information process, 2020)
Remember to reference your work while taking notes. This will avoid looking for references later on.
1.Why did the great journeys of exploration occur?
This site appears to be designed by students for students. It contains relevant information in an easy to understand format. It would be good practice to check infromation sources/ references. You may like to consider how you would like to present your research findings.
(Why did the great journey’s of exploration occur?, n.d.)
http://45launchpad.weebly.com/year-4-why-did-the-great-journeys-of-exploration-occur.html
2.Dirk Hartog
Concise and reliable, this link contains highly relevant information about Hartog, his voyages and the authority he was given by the Dutch rulers. You might like to navigate other areas of this site for other explorers in the region at the time.
(Dirk Hartog lands off Western Australia, n.d.)
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/dirk-hartog-lands-off-western-australia
3.Defining moments Timeline National Museum of Australia
An excellent site with interactive features to keep you curious and engaged with the content. The timetline begins before 1600 and continues to 2010 highlighting important events in the history of Australia.
(Defining moments Timeline National Museum of Australia., n.d.).
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/defining-moments-timeline
4.Objects through time.
Images of interesting artefacts belonging to earlier explorers. Possibly of some cultural relevance and importance.
Consider the following:
What may have prompted the voyages by early explorers?
What evidence supports yours assumptions?
(Objects through time, 2010)
http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibition/objectsthroughtime-history/1600s-1700s/index.html
5.The map of the world… but not as we know it.
An opportunity to look at a world map which is over 500 years old.
Consider the following:
Are there differences between this map and current maps?
What are the differences?
Can you think of a reasong why there might be differences?
(The map of the world… but not as we know it, n.d.)
https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/Resource/LandingPage?ObjectId=9b0de8aa-38b7-484c-880a-d4ba97ea2067
6.Explorers of Australia and nearby Islands
Provides brief details of a list of European explorers to Australia.
(Explorers of Australia and nearby lands, 2000)
https://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/australia.shtml
7.How the Wiradjuri people of Central West NSW survived first contat with European settlers by Micaela Hambrett
Provides a different perspective to European settlement.
Consider the following:
What were initial relations like when European settlers first arrived?
Were there changes in the relationships over time?
What were these changes?
How did this happen?
Is it important to udnertand different cultural practices? Why/why not?
(Hambrett, 2018)
8.Indigenous Perspectives of Cook visits.
Offers a brief description to the arrival of Captain Cook and outlines a different reality of what took place.
Consider the following:
Why is it important to question what we read?
How do we know when information is reliable?
What can we use to help with checking if information is true or not?
(Indigenous Perspectives of Cook Visit, 2020)
https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/indigenous-perspectives-of-cook-visit/12176674