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Discuss the reasons for the First Fleet journey, including an examination of the wide range of crimes punishable by transportation, and looking at the groups who were transported
Discuss the treatment of prisoners at that time, and past and present views on the colonisation of Australia; investigating the daily lives and social standing of those who travelled to Australia on the First Fleet, including families, children and convict guards
• using historical terms when talking about the past (for example ‘penal’, ‘transportation’, ‘navigation’, ‘frontier conflict’, ‘colonisation’)
• posing questions about the First Fleet (for example 'Why did the First Fleet travel to Australia?' 'Who was on it?' 'What were their stories?' 'What was the journey like?')
• identifying sources to investigate the story of the First Fleet and its arrival, such as paintings, maps, written records/accounts
• exploring different stories about contact experiences and early penal life to discover the thoughts or feelings of the people at that time (for example convicts, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, convict guards, free settlers)
• recounting the experiences of an individual based on researched facts (for example a biography, diary or journal of a navigator or convict on the First Fleet)
• creating charts, pictorial stories, maps, digital and oral presentations to explain the past • making a podcast that features a story from the First Fleet