Cultural collisions


Year level Year 4 – 6
Duration 90 minutes
Cost $240 per group (up to 32 students)
Audience Primary

Students critically examine First Contact experiences of Aboriginal peoples in Western Australia, investigating the history of encounters with various visitors through industry, trade and colonisation.

Evidence of these diverse relationships and their cultural, social, and economic consequences are examined through artworks, objects and oral histories from the Museum’s collections.

 

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Student experience

Students will:

  • Explore case studies of early contact in the Ngalang Koort Boodja Wirn gallery
  • Use role-play to explore lasting impacts of colonisation and government policies
  • Learn about the diversity in pre-colonial/colonial relationships and encounters with Aboriginal peoples
  • Discuss legacies of these early relationships and reflect on their own attitudes and learning

 

Skills development

This program links to the following strands of the Western Australian Curriculum:

 

Year 4

History

  • The diversity and longevity of Australia's first peoples and the ways they are connected to country/place (e.g. land, sea, waterways, skies) and their pre-contact ways of life (ACHASSK083)
  • 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 (ACHASSK086)

 

Year 5

History

  • The patterns of colonial development and settlement (e.g. geographical features, climate, water resources, transport, discovery of gold) and how this impacted upon the environment (e.g. introduced species) and the daily lives of the different inhabitants (e.g. convicts, free settlers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) (ACHASSK107)
  • The economic, social and political impact of one significant development or event on a colony and the potential outcomes created by 'what if…?' scenarios (e.g. frontier conflict; the gold rushes; the Eureka Stockade; the Pinjarra Massacre; the advent of rail; the expansion of farming; drought) (ACHASSK107)

 

Year 6

Geography

  • Australia's connections with countries (e.g. trade, migration, tourism, aid, education, defence, sport) and how these connections change people and places (ACHASSK141) 

History

  • Experiences of Australia's democracy and citizenship, including the status and rights of Aboriginal people and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples, migrants, women and children (ACHASSK135) Choices about the use of resources result from the imbalance of limited resources and unlimited wants (i.e. the concept of scarcity) (ACHASSK149)

Economics and Business

  • Decisions about the alternative use of resources result in the need to consider trade-offs (e.g. using the land to grow crops or to graze cattle) (ACHASSK149)

 

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