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This activity is linked to the National Profiles, Level 4, Studies of Society and the Environment.
Materials:
Where are we, Mike? worksheet
electrical equipment, tape recorders, video recorders
Method
Have students research and identify three journals from different explorers. Have them choose a weeks worth of entries from each journal. Photocopy the weeks entries and paste them into their book.
Brainstorm with students all the different things explorers took with them on these journeys.
Have them complete the Where are we, Mike worksheet.
Students are to use modern technologies: video recorders, tape recorders, etc. to record their journal entries.
Further Research
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Why were these explorers called explorers in a land that was already mapped by the Indigenous people?
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Why werent Indigenous people recognised as the true explorers of this country?
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Discuss how many of these explorers would not have survived if not for their Indigenous guides
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Parallels can be drawn from early attitudes to Indigenous people in Australia to native guides who took expeditions up Mt Everest
National Profiles, Level 4, Studies of Society and Environment
Time, Continuity and Change
A student
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Describes important events and ways of life in some periods of Australias past
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Constructs a timeline of some main events and major periods in history
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Describes an event of occasion in history from a particular point of view
Place and Space
A student
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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
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Describes how the different things people believe in, value and become involved with influence the ways they use places
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Describes the different views that individuals and groups have about issues to do with the care of places
Culture
A student
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Describes aspects of Australian history over the past 200 years, and organisations today, from the Australian Indigenous persons viewpoints
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Describes the roles, rights and responsibilities of members of a cultural or social group
Resources
A student
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Describes factors that affect resource use and development
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Shows the different ways that information is used by people to make and record decisions
Investigations, Communication and Participation
A student:
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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
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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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