Australian Society and Environment: Year 4For children aged 9 to 10 years or year 4. It covers the history of discovering Australia and the explorers for each state. It then focuses on the environment and the local communities and local council structures. |
Contents
The Dutch visit the Great South Land | 1 |
CULTURE | 2 |
Cook and the east coast | 4 |
Aboriginal resistance | 11 |
Way of life of early settlers | 14 |
The effects of colonisation on Indigenous peoples | 17 |
Australias first successful farmer | 20 |
Review | 23 |
Queensland major features | 66 |
Bass Strait island communities | 69 |
Modifying the environment | 72 |
Review SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES 1 Local councils 2 | 76 |
Suppliers of goods in communities 3 | 81 |
Your community services 4 | 84 |
Cooperation in communities | 87 |
Producers and consumers responsibilities | 90 |
The first European migrants | 25 |
Early settlement Victoria | 27 |
Aboriginal communities before colonisation | 30 |
Torres Strait Island communities 4 | 33 |
5 | 36 |
Early settlement Queensland | 37 |
6 | 39 |
Our heritage | 44 |
Early settlement Northern Territory | 47 |
Early settlement Western Australia | 50 |
Review ENVIRONMENT | 54 |
Spotlight on a local community | 57 |
New South Wales major features | 60 |
Victoria major features | 63 |
4 | 64 |
Major advances in the twentieth century | 92 |
Recent technological change | 96 |
Money and our community | 99 |
4 | 102 |
7 | 104 |
17 | 106 |
20 | 107 |
27 30 | 108 |
37 | 109 |
47 | 110 |
60 | 111 |
66 | 112 |
78 | 113 |
99 | 114 |
Common terms and phrases
114 SOCIAL SYSTEMS 50c coin Aboriginal advances in transport animals Answer these questions Answers for Unit Answers will vary areas Bass Strait Botany Bay Brisbane Captain Cook colony Complete this paragraph consumers convicts Coober Pedy cooperate council CULTURE Unit Diemen's Land diseases Dividing Range Early settlement early settlers England European explorers farming Find fish Flinders Free settlers fresh gold Government House indigenous label List lived mainland meat Melbourne Moreton Bay Mount Kosciuszko mountains Murray River names Norfolk Island Northern Territory opals Ovens overland parks Pelsart plants Port Jackson Port Phillip Bay Possession Island Queensland Reef Research Rockhampton sailed ships South Australia South Land South Wales Street STRUCTURES Unit suppliers supply Sydney Cove SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES Tasmania Torres Strait Islanders town trees True or False twentieth century Van Diemen's Land Victoria Websites Western Australia Wilsons Promontory Winwoods words