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Going Beyond Australian Exploration Project

Going Beyond Australian Exploration Project. Investigation of a famous explorer. Select an Australian explorer of the past such as James Cook, Douglas Mawson or Burke and Wills. Create a project that includes: Key Questions Biography of your explorer Information narrative

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Going Beyond Australian Exploration Project

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  1. Going BeyondAustralian Exploration Project Investigation of a famous explorer

  2. Select an Australian explorer of the past such as James Cook, Douglas Mawson or Burke and Wills. Create a project that includes: • Key Questions • Biography of your explorer • Information narrative • A scaled map showing the expeditions of the explorers. You will investigate how your discoveries impacted on the development of Australia and the world. You can gather information by: Viewing films and videos about Explorers Undertaking library research (including use of suitable Internet sites such as http://gutenberg.net.au/explorers.html) to obtain information about specific countries.

  3. The Project You will present your completed project to the class and also submit an electronic and hard copy.

  4. Going Beyond – Australian Exploration Project Rubric

  5. Writing a Bibliography Write the word 'Bibliography' at the top of the page. Arrange the details of each reference in the following order: 1. BOOKS

  6. 2. Articles in Newspapers 3. Articles in Magazines

  7. 3. Material from the Internet Points to Remember

  8. What I know…

  9. To make notes, you need to pick out the most important points. These are called KEY WORDSwrite the key words and phrases in the boxes then rewrite the information in your our words. The First Fleet of ships from England arrived in Sydney in 1788. This represented the first European settlement of the continent, although aborigines had already been living in Australia for tens of thousand of years. For the first twenty-five years the new inhabitants were confined to the coastal strip around Sydney as no way could be found across the Blue Mountains, part of the Great Dividing Range which runs parallel to the east coast of Australia for almost the coast's entire length. When, in 1813, a way across the Blue Mountains was found, a wave of inland exploration was unleashed which continued for the next fifty years. Place your new text here:

  10. Gathering Grid A gathering grid can help you organize information for a research report. Write your questions in the left hand column Write the title of our sources at the top of each column Write answers you find and note where you found them Example:

  11. Gathering Grid

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