Jibbon journey

Outcomes

• Students describe and explain how significant individuals, groups and events contributed to changes in the local community over time (HT2-2)
• Students describe and explain effects of British colonisation in Australia (HT2-4)
• Students apply skills of historical inquiry and communication (HT2-5)

Content

History – community and remembrance

Students:

• identify the original Aboriginal languages spoken in the local or regional area
• identify the special relationship that Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples have to Country and Place
• respond to Aboriginal stories told about Country presented in texts or by a guest speaker

History – first contacts

Students:

• identify the original inhabitants of Australia and create a timeline indicating their longevity in Australia of more than 50,000 years
• investigate, drawing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community representatives (where possible) and other sources, the traditional Aboriginal way of life, focusing on people, their beliefs, food, shelter, tools and weapons, customs and ceremonies, art works, dance, music, and relationship to Country

History uses sources to construct narratives of the past

Outcomes

• describes Aboriginal Peoples’ obligations to Country, Culture and Community HS2-ACH-01
• explains how people lived in the past, how navigation connected the world, and what life was like in the Sydney Cove penal settlement, using sources as evidence HS2-HIS-01

Content

Aboriginal Peoples have the oldest living continuous Cultures in the world

• Examine how Aboriginal Peoples have engaged in Cultural exchange and trade across NSW
• Investigate the interactions of individual Aboriginal People with traders and navigators from outside Australia
• Examine NSW sites of archaeological evidence of the oldest living continuous Cultures in the world
• Explain how the arrival of the First Fleet affected Gadigal Peoples