Investigating pastoral settlement in Australia in the nineteenth century by analysing the National Museum of Australia's Settlers and Settling In module

Topic: History, Studies of Society and Environment, English
Type: Curriculum materials
Years: 8-12

Key Curriculum Links: Time, Continuity and Change; Culture; Natural and Social Systems; Investigation, Communication and Participation.

Explores the nature of nineteenth pastoral settlement in eastern Australia. Students use the images in the unit of work to create their own story of pastoral settlement in Australia at that time.

The student activities included in this unit cover the following topics:

• Activity 1: Imagining a sheep station
• Activity 2: What themes in Australian history does your property tell you about?
• Activity 3: Interrogating museum objects from a nineteenth century pastoral property
• Activity 4: Testing your ideas
• Activity 5: Identifying gaps in your story
• Activity 6: How is a museum display created and curated?
• Activity 7: Telling your story of nineteenth century pastoral settlement in Australia

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