First Voyages
First Voyages
Explore the voyages of Britain’s Matthew Flinders and France’s Nicolas Baudin who, from 1801 to 1803, produced the first charts of the southern coast and completed the map of Australia.
Use the interactive map and discover the notes and illustrations Flinders’ and Baudin’s artists and scientists made on their voyage.
First Voyages
Curriculum
Year 3
AC9HS3S01 – develop questions to guide investigations about people, events, places and issues
AC9HS3S02 – locate, collect and record information and data from a range of sources, including annotated timelines and maps
AC9HS3S03 – interpret information and data displayed in different formats
AC9HS3S04 – analyse information and data, and identify perspectives
Year 4
AC9HS4K02- the causes of the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788
AC9HS4K05 – the importance of environments, including natural vegetation and water sources, to people and animals in Australia and on another continent
AC9HS4S01 – develop questions to guide investigations about people, events, places and issues
AC9HS4S02 – locate, collect and record information and data from a range of sources, including annotated timelines and maps
AC9HS4S03 – interpret information and data displayed in different formats
AC9HS4S04 – analyse information and data, and identify perspectives
Year 9
AC9HH9K01 – the causes and effects of European imperial expansion and the movement of peoples in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the different responses to colonisation and migration
AC9HH9K02 – the key social, cultural, economic and political changes and their significance in the development of Australian society during the period
AC9HH9K03 – the causes and effects of European contact and extension of settlement, including their impact on First Nations Peoples of Australia
AC9HH9K04 – significant events, ideas, people, groups and movements in the development of Australian society
AC9HH9S01 – develop and modify a range of historical questions about the past to inform historical inquiry
AC9HH9S02 – locate, identify and compare primary and secondary sources to use in historical inquiry
AC9HH9S03 – identify the origin and content of sources, and explain the purpose and context or primary and secondary sources
AC9HH9S04 – explain the usefulness of primary and secondary sources, and the reliability of the information as evidence
AC9HH9S06 – compare perspectives in sources and explain how these are influenced by significant events, ideas, locations, beliefs and values
AC9HH9S07 – analyse different and contested historical interpretations