AUSTRALIA's First Inhabitants
"In this lesson you will investigate how Australian Aborigines lived prior to colonisation and compare it to their current lifestyle."
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This is a short video on Indigenous Australians
Task Overview
Your task is to investigate how colonisation has changed the lifestyle of Indigenous Australians (ACHASSK107). You will need to use the links below to help you in your investigation. You must first answer the following inquiry questions on the worksheet provided below.
INQUIRY QUESTIONS:
Once you have answered these questions, you must draw a picture of how Indigenous Australians lived before colonisation and after. You must annotate these images to describe what you have drawn.
INQUIRY QUESTIONS:
- What are the origins of Aboriginal Australians?
- Where do they come from?
- What unique characteristics do they have?
- What sort of lifestyle did the Indigenous Australians have before colonisation?
- How did they get food?
- Where did they live?
- What did they value?
- What language did they speak?
- How did colonisation change their lifestyle?
- What did they eat now?
- Were they still nomadic?
- What issues were caused by colonisation?
Once you have answered these questions, you must draw a picture of how Indigenous Australians lived before colonisation and after. You must annotate these images to describe what you have drawn.