Australian History Curriculum P-6

The State Library's First Fleet Collection includes journals, letters, drawings, maps and charts created by those who actually travelled with the First Fleet. It is one of the Library's most significant and valuable collections.

Over 252 days, the First Fleet brought over 1500 men, women and children half way around the world from England to New South Wales.

a timeline of the journey

Convicts & Settlers @ pppst.com 

The settlement of Sydney began its life as a penal colony, with a total of 568 male and 191 female prisoner convicts with 13 children, 206 marines with 26 wives and 13 children, and 20 officials having made the voyage.

Cook's journal written on board the Endeavour during his trip down under in 1770.

featuring over 150 film clips showcasing a unique collection of Australian history documentaries matched with selected websites from Australia's national collecting institutions

Resources to support the Australian History Curriculum

Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is also so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer and so it pushes the other novelties into second and third place. It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies; and all of a fresh new sort, no mouldy old stale ones. It is full of surprises and adventures, the incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened." ( Mark Twain, 1897 )

Helpful site for explaining history timeline

Free Presentations in PowerPoint format & Free Interactive Activities for Kids - Ancient History

Ancient, Colonisation, Post Federation, Australian Information and fun activities

Founders & Survivors is a partnership between historians, genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who were transported to Tasmania. Many survived their convict experience and went on to help build a new society.