History k-10 Syllabus 2012

Topic 6d: Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples, Colonisation and Contact History
The nature of colonisation of ONE Indigenous community such as North America, the Pacific region, China, Africa, South-east Asia or South Asia
Students:

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  define the concepts of invasion, occupation, colonisation and settlement
  
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  describe the main features of the chosen Indigenous culture prior to colonisation
  
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  explain how and why colonisation occurred
  

The nature of contact following colonisation of the chosen Indigenous people
Students:

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  describe the key aspects of contact between the Indigenous people and the colonisers
  
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  using a range of sources, describe some of the differing experiences of contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples such as impact of disease, land disputes, dispossession, frontier wars
  
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  describe and assess the life of ONE of the chosen Indigenous people in contact with the colonisers
  

The consequences of the colonisation of the chosen Indigenous people
Students:

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  explain the results of colonisation for the chosen Indigenous people and non-Indigenous peoples
  

The nature of British colonisation of Australia
Students:

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  recall the nature of early British contact with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia
  
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  describe the differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relationships to Land and Country
  
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  using a range of sources, describe some of the differing experiences of contact between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Aboriginal peoples
  
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  outline the developments in government policies towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to 1900
  
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  describe and assess the life of ONE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individual in contact with the British colonisers
  
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  explain the results of colonisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Aboriginal peoples to 1900
  

A comparison of the colonising movement
Students:

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  compare the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' experiences of colonisation with those of the chosen Indigenous culture