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Topic: History, Studies of Society and Environment, Indigenous Studies, Media Studies
Type: Interactive website
Years: 9-12
Key curriculum links
Time, Continuity and Change; Culture; Natural and Social Systems; Investigation, Communication and Participation.
Activities
Bells Falls Gorge Virtual Reality Interactive
The National Museum of Australia has a display area on the nature of the contact between Aboriginal people and those who arrived after 1788 and moved into frontier areas. The contact varied from place to place. It could involve conflict or cooperation. Displays in the Museum show this variety of responses. However, there has been controversy about one of the sections, the 1823-1825 'Wiradjuri War' in the Bathurst area of New South Wales.
The display raises issues about how we know what we know about the past.
Students can take a tour of this display and decide for themselves what they think. They can also analyse the display further by calling up a set of criteria and questions that help them to analyse the display.
Finally, they can look at some of the conclusions of observers, and decide for themselves what they think about the display.
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To access the HTML version of the interactive click here.
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