The journey(s) of at least one world navigator, explorer or trader up to the late 18th century (e.g. Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan), including their contacts and exchanges with societies in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, and the impact on one society (ACHASSK084)
The nature of contact between Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples and others (e.g. the Macassans, Europeans) and the impact that these interactions and colonisation had on the environment and people's lives (e.g. dispossession, dislocation, the loss of lives through conflict, disease, loss of food sources and medicines) (ACHASSK086)
Humanities and Social Science Skills
Locate and collect information from a variety of sources (e.g. photographs, maps, books, interviews, internet) (WAHASS28)
Record selected information and/or data (e.g. use graphic organisers, develop note-taking strategies) (WAHASS29)
Translate collected information and/or data into different formats (e.g. create a timeline, change data into a table and/or graph) (WAHASS34)
Develop texts, including narratives and biographies, that use researched facts, events and experiences (WAHASS38)
Other Curriculum Learning Areas
Year 4 - English Literacy - Interacting with others
Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences (ACELY1689)
Literacy - Interpreting Analysing, and Evaluating
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692)
Literature - Creating Literature
Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607)
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)
Year 4 - Mathematics Measurement and Geometry - Location and Transformation
Use simple scales, legends and directions to interpret information contained in basic maps (ACMMG090)