Captain Cook: Destructive coloniser or Interpid explorer?
Resource Description
This evidenced based unit of work includes the introduction to some early explorers preceding Cook and international rivalry of the day. It explores original excerpts from Cook’s diaries to analyse his insights and reflections.
It includes information on values and attitudes of the day that were included in the law as legal and proper behaviour in international relations, and considers the modern term Terra Nullius for students to ultimately consider: was Cook a brilliant navigator and intrepid traveller, or a destructive coloniser?
This unit provides approximately eight to ten sessions of approximately 50 minutes duration each suitable for Years 9-10.
Contents Included:
1 x Teacher reference detailed lesson plans inclusive of Learning Intentions and links to the Australian National Curriculum v9
1 x power point
1x 6minute video
9 x worksheets plus 2 teacher reference answer sheets
Links to Australian National Curriculum 9
Making and transforming the Australian nation (1750-1914)
Knowledge and Understanding
AC9HH9K04 “significant events, ideas, people, groups and movements in the development of Australian society”
AC9HH9K01 “the causes and effects of European imperial expansion and the movement of peoples in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the different responses to colonisation and migration”
Skills
AC9HH9S02 “locate, identify and compare primary and secondary sources to use in historical inquiry”
AC9HH9S04 explain the usefulness of primary and secondary sources, and the reliability of the information as evidence
AC9HH9S06 “compare perspectives in sources and explain how these are influenced by significant events, ideas, locations, beliefs and values”
AC9HH9S07 “analyse different and contested historical interpretations”
AC9HH9S01 develop and modify a range of historical questions about the past to inform historical inquiry
AC9HH9S05 analyse cause and effect, and evaluate patterns of continuity and change
Communicating
AC9HH9S08 create descriptions, explanations and historical arguments, using historical knowledge, concepts and terms that incorporate and acknowledge evidence from sources