Year+5+Topics

=The Australian Colonies=

The Year 5 curriculum provides a study of colonial Australia in the 1800s. Students look at the founding of British colonies and the development of a colony. They learn about what life was like for different groups of people in the colonial period. They examine significant events and people, political and economic developments, social structures, and settlement patterns... These concepts may be investigated __within a particular historical context__ to facilitate an understanding of the past and to provide a focus for historical inquiries.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography @http://adb.anu.edu.au/

Macmillan publishers have an excellent series Stories from Australia's History, by Melanie Guile, telling the stories of explorers and famous achievers in graphic novel form. Titles include "Mary Mackillop" and "Eyre's Expedition Across the Nullarbor". They have proved to be good motivators at this year level.

=The Founding of the Colonies=
 * __**Reasons (economic, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800.**__
 * **__Reasons people migrated__**
 * **__New South Wales (Sydney 1788)__**
 * **__Tasmania 1803 (Hobart 1804)__**
 * **__Victoria 1803 (Melbourne 1835)__**
 * __**Queensland (Brisbane 1824)**__
 * **__Western Australia (Perth 1829)__**
 * **__South Australia (Adelaide 1836)__**
 * **__Northern Australia (Darwin 1869)__**

=Important Developments or Events=
 * __**Frontier conflict**__
 * **Gold Fever in Australia and the Eureka Stockade**
 * @The River Murray and its history
 * __**Exploration of the Interior**__
 * **__Overland Telegraph__**
 * **__Railway System__**
 * **__Wool, Farming and Drought__**
 * **__Whaling__**

Convict or Colonial presence

 * **__Factors that influenced patterns of development__**
 * **__Convicts__**
 * The reasons people migrated to Australia from Europe and Asia,
 * Experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony.
 * **__Colonial Life__**
 * **__Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples__**
 * **__How the environment changed__**

====The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony; for example, explorers, farmers, entrepreneurs, artists, writers, humanitarians, religious and political leaders, and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples.==== =Famous people in Colonial Australia=
 * __**Henry Sutton, Inventor**__ Illustrated article in "Australian Heritage" Magazine
 * **__Lawrence Hargrave, Inventor of Flying Machines__** Illustrated article in "Australian Heritage" Magazine
 * Flynn of the Inland and the Flying Doctor Service Illustrated article in "Australian Heritage" Magazine
 * Caroline Chisholm
 * **Saint Mary McKillop**
 * Henry Lawson - a writer whose stories and poems in the journal "The Bulletin" were widely read in Australia and helped to develop the concept of the Australian Outback as the true Australia, regardless of the fact that most Australians lived around the coastline.
 * C. Y. O'Connor and the Golden Pipeline

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