Links with the National History Curriculum
The Centre promotes its exhibitions and artefacts to primary school teachers as a 'hands on' learning option linked to the National History Curriculum.
Year | Key Inquiry Questions | Historical knowledge & understanding |
2 |
- How have changes in technology shaped our daily life?
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- The impact of changing technology on people's lives (at home & in ways they worked, travelled, communicated and played in the past)
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3 |
- Who lived here first and how do we know?
- How has our community changed?
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- The importance of Country and Place to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples who belong to a local area (focus on one language group)
- One important example of change and one of continuity over time in the local community (eg: transport, work, education, natural & built environments, entertainment, daily life)
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4 |
- What was life like for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples before the arrival of the Europeans?
- 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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- The diversity of Australia's first peoples and the long and continuous connection of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples to Country/Place (land, sea, waterways and skies) and the implications for their daily lives
- The nature of contact between Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and others and the effects of these interactions on for example families and the environment
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5 |
- What do we know about the lives of people in Australia's colonial past and how do we know?
- How did colonial settlement change the environment?
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- The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and how the environment changed
- The impact of a significant development or event on a colony (eg: frontier conflict, the gold rushes, the Eureka Stockade, internal exploration, advent of rail, expansion of farming, drought)
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