LEARNING INTENTIONS: Australia - Relationships and Diversity

LEARNING INTENTIONS: Australia - Relationships and Diversity  To consolidate knowledge about the First Fleet and its place in Australian History using Some of Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences  To identify and describe the outcomes and consequences of this event.

*CHOOSE AND COMPLETE ANY THREE ACTIVITIES IN YOUR IS1 BOOK -

Block 1 – How did the First Fleet get to Australia?

Verbal/ Write an interview for someone who was transported to Linguistic Australia, telling a journalist about the route Intelligence travelled and the conditions on board the ship. (You decide the length!)

Block 2 – Who came to Australia?

Draw a Venn diagram and record in the part-circle on the left, all Logical/ the crimes that you wrote down. Interview a couple of other Mathematical people, write down all the ‘crimes committed’ that they wrote down Intelligence on the right. Write those crimes that you both listed in the middle. Write an answer to this question: Why do you think these were the crimes that you listed in common?

Block 3 - What was life like in the new settlement?

Choose your answer to ONE of these questions: Visual/ ~How did the new settlement treat the Spacial Aborigines? Intelligence ~How did the military treat the convicts? Convert your answer on that ONE question into picture form.

Block 4 – Who was the youngest convict?

Logical/ Draw a bar graph to compare the sentences Mathematical of children to those of Intelligence adults. What conclusions can you draw about the justice system in Britain at the time? Write your conclusion in a sentence under the bar graph.

Block 5 – Interesting Mysteries...

~Create a photograph (using your own camera) based Visual/ on something you found out in this block. You could Spacial get some friends to dress up and pretend to be First Intelligence Fleet people OR ~Find a very old photograph that could represent First Fleet people AND paste thought bubbles onto TWO people. In the bubbles, write a realistic and appropriate thought that they may be having at that time, based on something you found out in this block.

Block 6 - How Useful is a History Database? Verbal/ Create a crossword puzzle containing the words: database, Linguistic prejudice, historical, relationships, diversity. You may include Intelligence other words from Block 6 too.