Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre, Kamay Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell
Overview
Students will use a variety of sources to investigate significant developments, events, and their impact on Australian colonies. They will utilise historical artefacts, photographs and other resources which will provide a window into the past. This will help clarify the factors that influenced settlement patterns in Australia, with a particular focus on Kamay Botany Bay National Park.
Outcomes
HT3-1 describes and explains the significance of people, groups, places and events to the development of Australia
HT3-2 describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time
HT3-5 applies a variety of skills of historical inquiry and communication
Key inquiry questions:
What do we know about the lives of people in Australia's colonial past and how do we know?
How did an Australian colony develop over time and why?
How did colonial settlement change the environment?
What were the significant events and who were the significant people that shaped Australian colonies?
Student will:
visit Alpha farmhouse to study and sketch the features, whilst learning about artefacts which give us clues as to how people lived in the past
consider and question the impact of settlement on Aboriginal people and their environment
explore the rock platform food resources
study the sculptures and learn about totems through the whale dreaming story
use GPS devices to collect historical facts/perspectives
Learning across the curriculum content
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
Sustainability
Critical and creative thinking
Information and communication technology capability
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