First Fleet - Colonisation

First Peoples

Lessons to Build Understanding

Contact

First Peoples

First Australians

Aboriginal People and Place

The Encounter

Frontier Wars - click

First contact: a contemporary Aboriginal perspective - click

Oscar's Sketchbook

First Fleet

Draw a Ship - click

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Convicts and Their Descendants - click

The Convict Voyages - click

Female and Child Convicts - click

Click to view - First Fleet’ and ‘Early Colonisation inquiry approach created by M Whiteley 2009

AC lesson - click

Click to view - explores the European contact and fear and anger, women and children etc

Why?

Why - Click

BTN First Fleet Activity Pack

The Prison Hulks - click

Babakiueria - exerpt

A great discussion starter, explore other's perspectives.

Click to view - a super discussion starter

Stolen Children - another perspective to discuss - click

First Fleet

Art Lesson

First Fleet Timeline

The Voyage Game

S2 Fleeting Past Notebook

First Fleet Maps App

First Fleet Journal Idea

Adapt to the First Fleet

Ideas

Governor Phillip and the Eora

Governor Arthur Phillip was the first governor of New South Wales. His treatment of the indigenous Aboriginal people was initially friendly as he made efforts to get to know the Sydney Eora Aboriginal people. These early gestures though, were undermined by the displacement of Aboriginal people further inland to make room for white settlers. Watch this interesting clip as it explains the many facets of Phillip's dealings with the indigenous Aboriginal population in the early years of Australia's settlement by colonists.

First Fleet - AC Unit

What Was Life Like?

First Fleet Online

First Fleet - Ships

First Fleet - Convicts

First Fleet Convict List

Provisions List

Journals of The First fleet

First Fleet Fellowship

Colonisation - Resources

Convicts

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Teacher Text books - click to view and you are even able to view the entire book to gather ideas to use. Click

A Convict Story

Convict and Colonial Australia

Convicts in Australia

Oscar's Notebook

Flip through the 40 pages of a sketchbook which belonged to Oscar, a young Aboriginal man who grew up in Queensland in the 1880s. The drawings in Oscar's book appear to present an autobiographical account of his life, with Indigenous scenes and cross-cultural contact.

Convict Love Token

The National Museum of Australia has 314 convict love tokens in its collection. These tokens were made by convicts around the time of their sentencing and were given to friends and loved ones as mementos. View both sides of every token, read transcriptions, leave comments or ask questions on our dedicated website.