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Stage Two Resources 

This page directly relates to the Stage Two HSIE Syllabus points: 

HS2-ACH-01 describes Aboriginal Peoples’ obligations to Country, Culture and Community and

HS2-GEO-01 explains how people care for Australia’s environments and participate in Australian society, using geographical information

Aboriginal Peoples have the oldest living continuous Cultures in the world

  • Examine how Aboriginal Peoples have engaged in Cultural exchange and trade across NSW

  • Investigate the interactions of individual Aboriginal People with traders and navigators from outside Australia

  • Examine NSW sites of archaeological evidence of the oldest living continuous Cultures in the world

  • Explain how the arrival of the First Fleet affected Gadigal Peoples

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People have used navigation to connect with other places and people

  • Compare journeys and reasons for significant voyages of global navigation

  • Describe how Willem Janszoon, Dirk Hartog, Abel Tasman, Macassan traders and Lieutenant James Cook connected the Great Southern Land or Terra Australis to the world using maps and images as sources of evidence

  • Represent the journey of Bungaree and Matthew Flinders to circumnavigate Australia using maps and images as sources of evidence

  • Explain how the development of navigational instruments influenced global navigation using Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary

Sources provide evidence of how people lived in the first penal settlement at Sydney Cove

  • Identify reasons for the establishment of a British penal colony at New South Wales

  • Describe the role that transportation of convicts played in the establishment of a colony at New South Wales

  • Describe the experiences of men, women and children on the First Fleet voyage using sources as evidence

  • Research and draw conclusions about resources transported with the First Fleet, using sources as evidence

  • Represent life in the penal settlement at Sydney Cove using images, maps, personal accounts and sites

  • Research and recount the life of an Aboriginal person, a convict, a marine and a settler who lived in the penal settlement at Sydney Cove

  • Explain how stories, images, objects and sites are used as sources of evidence for the first penal settlement in New South Wales

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