CONTEXT

Year 4 Unit Plan covering Term 3 Unit Title: First Contacts Addressing Curriculum Key Inquiry Question: “What was the nature and consequence of

contact between Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples and early traders, explorers and settlers?”

UNIT OVERVIEWLesson 1: Discovery – Narrative Inquiry

What is discovery?

Nim’s Island

Word chart and discussion

Connection to Curriculum:

• Use historical terms (ACHHS082)

• Pose a range of questions about the past (ACHHS083)

• Identify different points of view (ACHHS085)

Lesson 2: Discovery – Historical Inquiry

Who claims to have discovered Australia, and why did they discover Australia?

Connection to Curriculum:

• Sequence historical people and events (ACHHS081)

• Pose a range of questions about the past (ACHHS083)

• Identify different points of view (ACHHS085)

Lesson 3: - Discovery – Socratic Method

How did colonisation make life better or worse for Aboriginals and settlers in 1788?

T-charts (better/worse for Aboriginals and settlers)

Consider:• How did the settlers

change Australia when they arrived?

• What did they bring with them (eg. animals, tools, weapons, housing, agriculture and beliefs and ideas)?

Connection to Curriculum:

• Identify different points of view (ACHHS085)

• Sequence historical people and events (ACHHS081)

• Use a range of communication forms (oral, graphic, written) and digital technologies (ACHHS087)

UNIT OVERVIEWLesson 4: Invasion-Narrative Inquiry

What is invasion?

View clip:The Encounter by Jane Yolenhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01SKUjCCVGU

Complete word chart and discussion

Connection to Curriculum:

• Use a range of communication forms (oral, graphic, written) and digital technologies (ACHHS087)

Lesson 5: Invasion – Narrative Inquiry

How does it feel to be invaded?

Enactment of invasion by an authoritative figure

Discussion on how did that enactment make you feel?

(The Encounter by Jane Yolen read during guided reading sessions)

Connection to Curriculum:

• Identify different points of view (ACHHS085)

Lesson 6: Invasion –Combination of inquiry processes

What has changed today? Crossing cultures poster interpretation

Students will view two posters, one depicting life before European settlers arrived, and then one that depicts Australia in 2000 from an Aboriginal perspective. Facilitate a comparison between 1788 and 2000, and beyond.

Connection to Curriculum:

• Sequence historical people and events (ACHHS081)

• Use historical terms (ACHHS082)

• Pose a range of questions about the past (ACHHS083)

UNIT OVERVIEWLesson 7: Impact – Philosophical Inquiry

First Fleet has arrived: What is life like now?

Y-chart:Looks like, Sounds like, Feels like

Connection to Curriculum:

• Use a range of communication forms (oral, graphic, written) and digital technologies (ACHHS087)

Lesson 8: Impact –Philosophical Inquiry

Take a role

Students choose to be either a white settler or Aboriginal child that experienced the arrival of the first fleet.

Students will write a letter to a family member describing the event.

What do you see, hear, smell and how do you feel?

Connection to Curriculum:

• Use a range of communication forms (oral, graphic, written) and digital technologies (ACHHS087)

• Develop texts, particularly narratives (ACHHS086)