Local History Unit Focus This unit provides students with the opportunity to study their local area in relation to the information provided about historical events. Students are encouraged to make detailed studies of their local community, its people, its plants and animals and its history. Students are able to develop an understanding of significant places in Australia and their community and the history behind them that makes them so important. Unit Topics
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• Food Sources for Traditional Aboriginal Australians ......................................................... 36 – 38 • Aboriginal Trade Routes...................................................... 39 – 41 • Heritage Places .................................................................. 42 – 44 • Cemeteries ......................................................................... 45 – 47 • Comparing Histories ........................................................... 48 – 51 • Sacred Site – Uluru ............................................................ 52 – 53 • Advertisements .................................................................. 54 – 56 • Pictures and Photographs ................................................... 57 – 60
Outcomes and Indicators Change and Continuity
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• identifies the contributions of significant people and events to local community heritage • collects and uses primary and secondary sources to investigate the history of their community • explains why some natural and built features in the local area are heritage sites and why they are valued • demonstrates an understanding that different groups may have different points of view about changes in the local community • compares different versions of local history, beginning with the Aboriginal community that lives/lived in the area • identifies the effects of change on the environment • identifies continuing and changing roles, practices, traditions and customs of men and women in the community • listens to life stories of Aboriginal people • uses historical language when referring to source material • distinguishes between primary and secondary source material when acquiring information • compares their local history with that of another local area • discusses Aboriginal place names
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Describes events and actions related to the British colonisation of Australia and assesses changes and consequences. • sequences significant events related to human occupation in Australia • investigates the local area to identify the peoples who originally lived there and those who live there now
Cultures CUS2.3
Explains how shared customs, practices, symbols, languages and traditions in communities contribute to Australian and community identities. • examines the different perceptions that people living within a community have of that community • identifies some customs, practices and traditions of their local community, beginning with the Aboriginal people • gives some reasons why their local community is different to others and why it is of value and should be respected
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Local History