Life in Colonial Victoria

HTAV Primary School Conference20th August 2012

The Australian Curriculum: History is organised into two interrelated strands:

Historical Knowledge and Understanding and Historical Skills.

Historical Knowledge and Understanding

Content descriptions specify what teachers are expected to teach

elaborations illustrate the content descriptions

History / Year 5 / Content DescriptionsHistorical Knowledge and Understanding

The Australian ColoniesReasons (economic, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800. (ACHHK093)

The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples) and how the environment changed. (ACHHK094)

The impact of a significant development or event on a colony; for example, frontier conflict, the gold rushes, the Eureka Stockade, internal exploration, the advent of rail, the expansion of farming, drought. (ACHHK095)

The reasons people migrated to Australia from Europe and Asia, and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony. (ACHHK096)

The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony; for example, explorers, farmers, entrepreneurs, artists, writers, humanitarians, religious and political leaders, and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples. (ACHHK097)

History / Year 5 / Historical Knowledge and Understanding / The Australian ColoniesContent description The impact of a significant development or event on a colony; for example, frontier conflict, the gold rushes, the Eureka Stockade, internal exploration, the advent of rail, the expansion of farming, drought.

Elaborations • investigating an event or development and explaining its economic, social and

political impact on a colony (for example the consequences of frontier conflict events such as the Myall Creek Massacre, the Pinjarra Massacre; the impact of South Sea Islanders on sugar farming and the timber industry; the impact of the Eureka Stockade on the development of democracy)

• creating ‘what if’ scenarios by constructing different outcomes for a key event, for example ‘What if Peter Lalor had encouraged gold miners to pay rather than resist licence fees?’

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Year5?a=H&layout=1

The Australian Curriculum, History Key inquiry questions

Year 5

The Australian Colonies in the 1800s

1. What do we know about the lives of people in Australia’s colonial past and how do we know?

2. How did an Australian colony develop over time and why?

3. How did colonial settlement change the environment?

4. What were the significant events and who were the significant people that shaped Australian colonies?

What do we know about the lives of people in Australia’s colonial past and how do we know?

1837 Victoria crowned Queen of Great Britain and Ireland

Queen Victoria [ 1819-1901 ] ByFranz Xaver Winterhalter

Queen Victoria's family in 1846 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter left to right: Prince Alfred and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales; the Queen and Prince Albert; Princesses Alice, Helena and Victoria

1840 The Penny Post is introduced in Britain

George Baxter, News from Australia 1854

[Penny post 1840]

George Baxter, News from Home 1854

The Vulcan, the first steam locomotive on the Great Western Railway.It ran on a short stretch of completed track on 28 December 1837.

Charles Dickens1812 - 1870

Frontispiece, first edition 1838

1838 Oliver Twist1839 Nicholas Nickleby1841 The Old Curiosity Shop1843 A Christmas Carol1849 David Copperfield1850 began his weekly journal

Household Words.

First edition frontispiece and title page (1843)

First commercially produced Christmas card, designed by John Callcott Horsley for Henry Cole 1843

The Victorian Christmas

The Queen's Christmas tree at Windsor Castle. Illustrated London News, 1848

Edward Jenner by James Northcote

1840 Smallpox vaccination - using cowpox - provided free in Britain- other treatments of smallpox banned

Henry O’Neil, The Parting Cheer

Colonization spread Britain’s Industrial Revolution, culture, language, religion and politics to Australia.

An artist's impression of John Batman's treaty with Port Philip aborigines in 1835 for the purchase of 600,000 acres of land.

The Australian Sketchbook by S. T. Gill, 1865.

S. T. Gill, Attack on Store Dray

S. T. Gill, Homeward Bound

S. T. Gill. Wool Drays

S. T. Gill. Bushman’s Hut

S.T. Gill, Cattle Branding

Ercildoune near Lake Burrumbeet

Von Guerard, Eugene, Koort Koort-nong homestead, near Camperdown, Victoria 1860

S. T. Gill, The New Rush

Main Street, Sovereign Hill Museum(Ballarat 1851 – 1861)

Replica mud brick and bark dwelling at Sovereign Hill (secondary source)

Interior of mud brick and bark colonial dwelling at Sovereign Hill

Chimney crane in dwelling at Sovereign Hill

Bark House, January 1883(primary source)

Speedwell Street, Sovereign Hill – recreated dwellings c. 1854(secondary source)

Cottage at Ross Creek, near Ballarat c 1871-2(primary source c.f. Speedwell Street, Sovereign Hill)

At Sovereign Hill costumed volunteers can often be seen working in the recreated cottages.

(Secondary source)

Pierre-Édouard Frère , Washing Day c 1878(Primary source)

Post Office kitchen at Sovereign Hill

B class locomotive, Ballarat c. 1864

Ballarat produce market – next to railway station c.1860s

Part of cargo for sailing ship 'Samaco' specially chartered for Hugh V. McKay's machinery train load of Sunshine Harvesters leaving Ballarat for export to Argentina 1903

Oxley Museum, Wellington NSW

Early stump jump plough – first invented in 1876

Old Ballarat Cemetery Creswick Rd, Ballarat

History Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 5, students • identify the causes and effects of change on particular communities,

and describe aspects of the past that remained the same. • They describe the different experiences of people in the past. • They describe the significance of people and events in bringing about

change.• Students sequence events and people (their lifetime) in chronological

order, using timelines. • When researching, students develop questions to frame an historical

inquiry. • They identify a range of sources and locate and record information

related to this inquiry. • They examine sources to identify points of view. • Students develop, organise and present their texts, particularly

narratives and descriptions, using historical terms and concepts.

RESOURCES

2. Flies! – William Howitt (mp3 file)“ The little black-devil fly all day attacked our eyes, nose and mouth: and great blowflies in thousands blew our blankets, rugs and everything woollen, all over with their maggots, which were at once dried upon by the sun. They covered spaces of a foot square at once with them, all adhering by a sort of gluiness.”(William Howitt Land, Labour and Gold; or Two Years in Victoria Longmans, London, 1855 quoted in Nancy Keesing (ed) History of the Australian Gold Rushes by those who were there. Angus and Robertson, Melbourne 1981 edition. P 110)

http://sheducationcom.ascetinteractive.biz/?id=audiolibrary#Flies

S. T. Gill, Butchers Shamble, Forest Creek

Search Sovereign Hill EducationTeachers → Pod Casts (Primary Sources) → Audio Library → Flies.

USEFUL WEB SITES for Australian HistoryLife in Colonial Victoria

TROVE http://trove.nla.gov.au/

THE PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE OF VICTORIA PROVhttp://prov.vic.gov.au/

SOVEREIGN HILL www.sovereignhill.com.au/education

HISTORY PIN www.historypin.com/community-schools/