Module

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: English for Year 7 students. The module is designed to introduce students to a variety of texts on the theme of cultural perspectives and to enable them to understand how authors, poets and cartoonists reflect their own cultural perspectives through their chosen medium.

Topic

British tea culture, imported with the arrival of the British in Australia in 1788, has been adapted by Australians into something distinct from its roots. One of the key early differences is the use of the ‘billy’, a lightweight metal can used most commonly for boiling water or cooking over a campfire.

Topic

The history of dance performance in Australia, as with all the performing arts, precedes the arrival of settlers from other nations.

Topic

Media, information and digital literacy, by their most basic definitions, relate to a person’s skills and ability to locate, create, use and engage critically with information in a range of formats.

Topic

Colonial settlers brought with them to Australia the concept of four distinct seasons. While this works for much of southern Australia, non-Indigenous people in the other parts of Australia identify seasonal change as wet and dry.

Topic

Danish architect Jørn Utzon (1918–2008) bold vision reshaped Sydney’s skyline and inspired the world.

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Direct action can be separated into two categories: civil resistance and civil disobedience.

Module

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 10 students.

Module

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences for Year 4 students.

Topic

As captain of the newly built Eendracht, Dirk Hartog was bound for the East Indies in 1616, along with other VOC ships.