Year+4+Topics

=Year 4 Topics= World History, Movement of Peoples, European Exploration of the World and Colonization to 1800

The Year 4 curriculum introduces world history and the movement of peoples. Beginning with the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, students examine European exploration and colonisation in Australia and throughout the world up to the early 1800s. Students examine the impact of exploration on other societies, how these societies interacted with newcomers, and how these experiences contributed to their cultural diversity.

Key inquiry questions

 * 1) Why did the great journeys of exploration occur?
 * 2) What was life like for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples before the arrival of the Europeans?
 * 3) Why did the Europeans settle in Australia?
 * 4) What was the nature and consequence of contact between Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples and early traders, explorers and settlers?

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 * Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
 * **__ Indigenous water craft and navigation, and coastline exploration __**
 * **__ Macassan visitors __**
 * **__ Reasons for European exploration in regions near Australia __**
 * **__ Vasco da Gama __**
 * **__ Ferdinand Magellan __**
 * **__ Mapping Australia's Coastline __**
 * **__ Torres Strait Islanders __**
 * **__ Dutch explorers __**
 * **__ Abel Tasman __ 1616 **
 * **__ Dirk Hartog __ 1619 **
 * ** Wreck of the Batavia 1629 **
 * **William Dampier 1688 **
 * **__ Sir Joseph Banks __**
 * **__ Captain James Cook __**
 * **@Lapérouse**
 * **__ First Fleet, convicts and early Sydney __**
 * **__ Captain Arthur Phillip __**
 * **__ Norfolk Island __**
 * **__ Convicts __**
 * **__ Rose HIll, Paramatta, and the Government Farm __**
 * **__ Cadigal people and Eora peoples __**
 * **__ Nanberry __**
 * **__ Arabanoo __**
 * **__ Bennelong __**
 * **__ Pemulway __**
 * **__Truganini__**
 * **__Watkin Tench__**
 * **__David Collins__**
 * **__ Matthew Flinders, George Bass, Nicholas Baudin __**

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