Date: Week 3

Level: Year 5

Unit: Humanities and Social Sciences

Time: 30 mins

Lesson #5

Curriculum
(Year Level Statement that this lesson is building towards)

Year 5 Level Description

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.
The content provides opportunities to develop historical understanding through key
concepts including sources, continuity and change, cause and effect,
perspectives, empathy and significance.
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.
The history content at this year level involves two strands: Historical Knowledge and
Understanding and Historical Skills. These strands are interrelated and should be
taught in an integrated way; they may be integrated across learning areas and in ways
that are appropriate to specific local contexts. The order and detail in which they are
taught are programming decisions.

Assessment of Learning
(List all assessment and state if it is formative or summative)
Assessment as learning:

Students use strategies to answer questions based on what they already know
Teacher is able to ask questions to gain students understanding

Lesson Objectives:
(Key Knowledge and Skills students should achieve in the lesson)
Students create an understanding of where people travelled from to get to Australia and
what their journey would have been like.
They are able to locate a Country on the map and place connections to Australia
Australian Curriculum Content Descriptors
Historical Knowledge and Understanding
Reasons (economic, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after
1800. (ACHHK093)
Historical Skills
Identify points of view in the past and present (ACHHS104)

Students Prior Knowledge:

Students own research of Australia as a colony
Who immigrated to Australia
Why would people want to immigrate (Push and Pull factors)

LESSON STRUCTURE:
Time

Introduction & Motivation:

5mins

Look at ways people travel

Ask students to raise their hands if anyone has been
on a holiday, pick a few students to tell us where they
have been ask them how they travelled to get there?

Teaching Approaches &

Resources
Gather information about
the present and relate it to
the past

Gather a rage of responses including plane, car and

boat (ship).
Ask students whether they think people in the 1800s
would have travelled this way to get to Australia?
How would they have travelled to get here?

Time

Main Content:

15mins

Explain that immigrants have come from all over

the world to live in Australia and have travelled
great distances. Look at the website as a class and
pin places to Australia to show how far they have
travelled.
Start by asking students to get out the research
they have done from their books and ask if they
can tell me where some of Australias immigrants
come from (If no one can come up with an answer
give hints to lead them to Britain, Scotland,
Ireland).
Get one student to come up to the front and pin it
on that country and drag the point to Australia to
see the travel distance.
Continue until a few answers have been given.
Ask students
- How do they think they travelled to Australia
- Would it be different now if they were to
travel here?
- Would they have travelled in the straight
direction?
- Who had to travel the greatest distance
- Who would have had the roughest journey

Teaching Approaches &

Resources
Students will look at the
information they have collected
in the previous lesson about
what groups or individuals
have immigrated to Australia
and use that information for
part of the lesson
Website http://mapmaker.education.nati
onalgeographic.com
Attached Sheet to show where
people have immigrated to
Australia from.

Support and/or Extension

Activities
Lesson is directed by the
teacher and support will be
given to all students
throughout the lesson.

Time

Conclusion:

10mins Open Google Earth

- Choose a student to pick a country that we
previously pinned on the Map
- Look at parts of that country and its land now
in Google Earth
- Ask students to point out what kind of houses
they see or any interesting landmarks
- Once students have looked at the current land
ask them if they think this would be here in the
1800s why/why not? What might have been
here instead?

Teaching Approaches &

Resources
Google Earth
Relating the land now back
to the 1800s

Evaluation
Did students understand the lesson?
Were students engaging with the lesson and content?
Did students answer questions asked of them?
How could this lesson be improved?

Safety Considerations

Ensure all students are sitting at their desks with chairs tucked in and sitting
properly
No students should be wandering around the room