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This activity is linked to the National Profiles, Level 4, Studies of Society and the Environment.
  • Discuss with students the importance of explorers keeping a diary. Would we have know how various ill-fated expeditions had ended if not for diaries?
  • Research diary entries by explorers from Captain Cook to William Hovell
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National Profiles, Level 4, Studies of Society and Environment
Time, Continuity and Change

A student
  • Describes important events and ways of life in some periods of Australia’s past
  • Constructs a timeline of some main events and major periods in history
  • Describes an event of occasion in history from a particular point of view

Place and Space

A student
  • Identifies and locates places with similar features such as climates, landforms, land use of vegetation and uses this information to describe the association of features within them
  • Describes how the different things people believe in, value and become involved with influence the ways they use places
  • Describes the different views that individuals and groups have about issues to do with the care of places

Culture

A student
  • Describes aspects of Australian history over the past 200 years, and organisations today, from the Australian Indigenous person’s viewpoints
  • Describes the roles, rights and responsibilities of members of a cultural or social group

Resources

A student
  • Describes factors that affect resource use and development
  • Shows the different ways that information is used by people to make and record decisions

Investigations, Communication and Participation

A student:
  • Identifies the types of information needed for a task and the various sources that can provide it and decides how these sources will be used
  • Selects, combines and uses information from a wide range of sources for a set task

Develops and decides on suitable ways to help make decisions and solve problems for a range of group tasks

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