Victorian Curriculum - Year 5 TERM: 1 DURATION: 8 weeks
Concept: Responsibility/Critical Thinking Subject Focus: History
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING: The voices of the past shape our nation and provide lessons for the future.
Historical Concepts and Skills
Chronology
Sequence significant events and lifetimes of people in chronological order to create a narrative to explain the developments in Australia’s colonial past and the causes and effects of Federation on its people (VCHHC082)
Continuity and change
Identify and describe patterns of continuity and change in daily life for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, ‘native born’ and migrants in the Australian colonies (VCHHC085)
Cause and effect
Explain the causes of significant events that shaped the Australian colonies, contributed to Australian Federation and the effects of these on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and migrants (VCHHC086)
Historical significance
Explain the significance of an event and an individual or group that influenced change in the Australian colonies and in Australian society since Federation (VCHHC087)
Historical Knowledge
The Australian colonies
The social, economic and political causes and reasons for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800 (VCHHK088)
The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced changing patterns of development, how the environment changed, and aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (VCHHK089)
The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping and changing a colony (VCHHK092)
Australia as a nation
The stories and perspectives of people who migrated to Australia, including from one Asian country, and the reasons they migrated (VCHHK095)
Significant contributions of individuals and groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and migrants, to changing Australian society (VCHHK096)