Aboriginal Peoples have the oldest living continuous cultures in the world

• How Aboriginal Peoples have engaged in cultural exchange and trade across NSW

• Interactions of individual Aboriginal People with traders and navigators from outside Australia

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

• 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

       Captain James Cook​ - Christopher Columbus - Zheng He - Ferdinand Magellan

• 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

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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 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

• COMING SOON: 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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COMING SOON: Sources provide evidence of how people lived in the past: Mesoamerica and the Andes

• Locate places identified as ancient Maya, Aztec and Inca civilisations using maps, globes and images

• Identify and describe objects, designs, sites and structures from Mesoamerica and the Andes that endure today

• Examine cultural works and inventions in art, astronomical observations, mathematics or writing of ancient Maya, Aztec and Inca civilisations, using sources as evidence

• Identify indigenous agricultural practices, animals, plants, staple foods and trading systems