Bloom’s Taxonomy - British Colonisation of Australia - Stage 2

Bloom’s Six Thinking Levels	First Inhabitants	Explorers Before Settlement	Conditions in England	The First Fleet	Colonisation	Consequences for Aboriginal People
Remember 1 point	•Write down as many facts about the Eora people as possible. •Recount an Aboriginal dreamtime story.	Name the European explorers who visited Australia before colonisation. Mark their journeys on a map.	•List some of the crimes people were imprisoned for. •Tell what a prison hulk was and what it was used for.	How many ships were in the fleet and what were their names? Map the route taken by the First Fleet.	Describe what the landscape would have been like for the first settlers. Paint or draw it.	List the consequences of the arrival of the British on the Aboriginal people.
Understand 2 points	•Draw a story map to illustrate how the Eora people lived. •Tell the main idea of a dreamtime story.	Research and write a report on one of these explorers - Jansz; Torres; Hartog; Thijssen; Tasman; Cook	•Describe what life was like in England before the First Fleet. • Explain why transportation was used as a form of punishment.	Research 1 of the convicts & write a factual recount which includes the reason they were transported, where they were sentenced, length of sentence, ship they were on, age & other statistics.	Make a Y chart for each type of person living in the first settlement. e.g. convict, soldier, settler, officer.	Describe how the lives of the Eora people were changed by the arrival of the British.
Apply 3 points	•Make a diorama showing the important features of the lives of the Eora people. •Illustrate a dreamtime story.	Devise at least five interview questions you could use to find out as much about Cook’s voyage as possible.	•Write a news report on a trial in England in the early 1700s. Include the crime and sentence. •Write an acrostic poem titled ‘Transportation’.	You have been appointed quartermaster for the ‘HMAS Supply’. List the provisions you would take on the 8 month journey to feed 100 people.	Illustrate and write a news report on Captain Phillip’s landing at Port Jackson.	Construct consequence charts for the Eora people: •loss of land •colonial rule
Analyse 4 points	•Compare the lives of the Eora people to our lives today. •Use a Venn diagram to compare 2 dreamtime stories	Make a flowchart to show the early exploration of Australia before colonisation. Include graphics and text.	•Explain why the poor living conditions in England led to so many people committing crimes. •Compare punishments then with punishments today for similar offences.	Examine a database of the members of the First Fleet and make a graph to show their role. Were they Convicts? Soldiers? Sailors? Settlers? Officers?	Write a letter from a member of the first settlement to a family member back in England. Tell them about life in the colony.	Why do the British refer to the First Fleet as colonisers but the Aboriginal people refer to them as ivaders?
Evaluate 5 points	•Give your opinion of a dreamtime story’s message. Could it have happened? Give your version.	Give your opinion. Should Captain Cook have claimed the Great South Land as uninhabited for Britain? Give reasons.	•What would have been a better solution to locking up all the people who committed crimes because they were poor?	What changes would you recommend to Captain Arthur Phillip to improve conditions on the ships to prevent loss of life of the members of the First Fleet.	Carry out a PMI on life in the first settlement. Offer solutions to the Minuses.	How has the colonisation of the British effected Aboriginal people of today?
Create 6 points	•Design a book suitable for an infants class to learn about the Eora People. •Write your own dreamtime story.	Suggest ways in which life might be different if another country had colonised Australia from early discoveries.	Write a play and perform it to show conditions in England before the First Fleet. •Write a poem or song about a prisoner who has just been told they are being transported to Australia.	Suggest the best types of foods available today that could have been taken on the voyage that would not go off and would keep everyone healthy.	You are Captain Phillip. Design a plan for the settlement to house convicts and free settlers.	Create a policy that would have allowed the British and Aboriginal people to have lived in harmony.

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