Year 4 Independent History Tasks by Alwyn McNamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks This is where you will find your tasks for History this term en-us 2017-06-28 05:36:36 UTC 2023-03-14 10:27:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Timeline task mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/177619069 Re watch the Aboriginal History timeline.

Complete the timeline sheet using information from the video clip.

When the timeline appears click on the lights shining from the map and watch some of the clips/read some information.

Record 2 or 3 interesting facts you learn from each time period on the worksheet.

Glue it into your book.]]> 2017-06-28 05:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/177619069 Group task mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/177619083 Go to this week's Padlet Group Task.

Complete the task as a group poster on one piece of butchers paper.

Work together to make sure you are all participating and not doubling up on information.]]> 2017-06-28 05:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/177619083 Task 1 mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/177619907 Display this picture.
Discuss: * What is this?

* How is it different from a map of the world today? 

* Why do you think it looks like this? 

* What do you think this means about the world at that time?

]]> 2017-06-28 06:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/177619907 Task 2 mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/177620800 Group task - Click on this link to go to the group task. Find your group and present the information on a group poster.]]> 2017-06-28 06:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/177620800 Mrmcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/180211684 2017-08-06 23:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/180211684 Task 1 mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183587100 Display this map displaying the different voyages explorers took around Australia. Look carefully of the dates of each voyage and discuss as a class who they think 'discovered' Australia.

Students copy these routes onto a map of Australia - listing the years and the names of the explorers. ]]> 2017-08-30 03:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183587100 Discovering Australia Worksheet mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183587982 2017-08-30 03:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183587982 Who is this? mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183588146 Display this image and have the students discuss who they think this may be. Use clues from the picture to talk about what his role might have been.]]> 2017-08-30 03:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183588146 Watch mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183588332 Watch and discuss the following YouTube clip of Cook's voyage]]> 2017-08-30 03:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183588332 Map Cook's journey mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183588392 Students map Cook's journey onto large butcher's paper and then do sticky post-it notes of VIP (very important points) about his journey and display these alongside the map in the classroom.]]> 2017-08-30 03:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183588392 What do these scenes depict? mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183596528 Look carefully at these pictures. What can you see? What do these pictures tell us? What do you think is going on in these pictures.]]> 2017-08-30 05:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183596528 Watch this clip explaining about the relationship between the USA and England mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183596954 2017-08-30 05:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183596954 Read and Respond mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183598010 Read the attached information about the USA War of Independence and what that meant for the British practice of exporting convicts to the USA.

Students write 5 facts they learned in their books.]]> 2017-08-30 05:38:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/183598010 Sentences mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/195880082 Flogging for a pair of boots]]> 2017-10-11 05:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/195880082 The Voyage Game mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/195880528 2017-10-11 05:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/195880528 Prison Hulks mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/195880927 Watch this clip and answer the following questions in your book.

1) What is a prison hulk?
2) Why did London need prison hulks?
3) What changes did they need to make to the boats to enable them to be prison hulks?
4) What was life like on the prison hulks?
5) Describe a day as a convict on a prison hulk.]]> 2017-10-11 05:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/195880927 Convict Hulks mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/195881531 2017-10-11 05:23:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/195881531 Transportation mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/195881961 Watch this clip.
Write 5 facts you learned in your book under the heading 'Transportation'.]]> 2017-10-11 05:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/195881961 The First Fleet mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199307735 Read this First Fleet Overview. Record one important fact per paragraph in your book under the heading 'First Fleet'.]]> 2017-10-21 23:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199307735 First Fleet Newspaper Article mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199308089 Here is a newspaper article from 1786 about the decision to send convicts to Australia. 

Read the article and write 5 things you learn about the trip. Then complete the following sentence:

* If I lived in London in 1786, my thoughts on transporting convicts to Australia would be....]]> 2017-10-22 00:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199308089 Map of First Fleet Voyage mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199308317 Look at this map of the voyage taken by the First Fleet. ]]> 2017-10-22 00:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199308317 Mapping the Voyage mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199308391 2017-10-22 00:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199308391 BTN - First Fleet mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199308847 Watch this recap and continuation of information on the journey taken by the First Fleet. 

Write 5 important facts about the journey in your books.


]]> 2017-10-22 00:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199308847 Arriving in Australia mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199309629 Read the information but more importantly look at the drawing from 1788 of the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney.

Write a description of what Sydney looked like in 1788.
Include in your description how you might feel if you were a convict and this is what you saw when you arrived.]]> 2017-10-22 00:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199309629 Ships of the First Fleet mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199309908 Choose a First Fleet boat and make an information mini poster on a blank sheet of A4 Paper.

You need to include the following:
* A picture of the ship
* The name of the ship
* The number of people who were on the ship - how many were convicts, officers etc.
* Any information on what else the ship may have carried (supplies etc)
* Any other interesting facts (like the size of the ship, the Master of the ship etc)]]> 2017-10-22 01:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199309908 Captain Arthur Phillip mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199309993 Captain Arthur Phillip was the man in charge of the First Fleet. 
Read the information on this website about Arthur Phillip and write 5 facts about the man who brought the First Fleet to Australia]]> 2017-10-22 01:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199309993 The Journey mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199309994 Watch this to see what it was like onboard the First Fleet and about the places they stopped at along the way. 

Take notes in your book as you watch.]]> 2017-10-22 01:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199309994 Preparing for the journey mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199310440 Watch this clip to get an idea of what the ships were like and what supplies they prepared for the journey.]]> 2017-10-22 01:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199310440 First Fleet lands in Australia - from the Indigenous perspective mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199310858 Watch this clip to get an idea of what the First Fleet landing was like for the Indigenous people living around Sydney Harbour.

After watching the clip, write a diary entry as if you were an Aboriginal person first sighting the First Fleet in the harbour. ]]> 2017-10-22 01:35:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/199310858 Early Days of Sydney Town mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/210722637 http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/english/continuum/earlysydney.pdf]]> 2017-11-28 02:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/210722637 mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/210723217 http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/history-female-convicts-first-fleet/female-convicts]]> 2017-11-28 02:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/210723217 Pemulwuy mcnamara https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/210725543 http://www.myplace.edu.au/decades_timeline/1800/decade_landing_20.html?tabRank=2&subTabRank=2]]> 2017-11-28 02:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mcnamara/Year4historytasks/wish/210725543