1788: Colony, Contact and Consequence - Year 4

Explore why Britain established the first colony, compare the governor, marines and convicts, and explain the effects of invasion on First Nations peoples. Students use clearly attributed museum and library sources, recognise resistance and continuing connection to Country, and build a three-panel historical explanation.

What's included

• Ten separate editable lesson presentations, Lessons 01–10: 13 slides each, 130 slides in total.
• One editable unit quiz: 24 slides with ten questions, separate reasoning slides and two new caption cases.
• A 48-page Unit Plan PDF: clean contents page, 17 teacher-guidance pages and 30 resource/answer pages.
• Two colour displays; eight source cards on two pages; a three-page cooperative Evidence Trail game.
• Ten black-and-white learning records and ten matched model-answer pages, with red responses immediately after each record.
• Two assessment pages and one rubric.
• A 202-page Preview PDF showing the Unit Plan, all ten lesson decks in order and the quiz, with protected preview pages.
• A separate clean Table of Contents JPEG.
• Three listing-copy text files. The download has 17 files; file count is different from page count.

Learning focus

British causes; voyage and establishment; governor, marine and convict experiences; Country, dispossession, resistance and continuing connection; source origins, perspectives, limitations and reasoned historical explanations.

Classroom use

Explicit source modelling, cooperative source discussion, annotated route/timeline work, role comparison, cause/effect mapping, three historical panels and an evidence-based caption revision. The quiz supports the portfolio/conference assessment.

Teacher benefits

Ready source prompts, explicit teaching models, accurate endpoint dates, source-perspective comparison, accessible response choices and an aligned assessment/rubric. Both teaching routes retain all essential evidence.

Digital product and licence

Digital resource only. No physical item. PPTX files are editable in compatible presentation software; PDFs and JPEGs are fixed-format. A single-teacher classroom licence does not permit resale, redistribution or public posting of the files. Only the lesson presentations and quiz are editable in the download.

Formats, page counts and answers

PPTX, PDF, TXT and JPEG. Ten lesson PPTXs (130 slides), one quiz PPTX (24 slides), a 48-page Unit Plan PDF and a 202-page Preview PDF. Thirty resource/answer pages include ten matched model-answer companions. The download has 17 files.