CBHS Year 5 History
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      • What is a Colony?
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          • Impacts Crossing the Mountains
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          • John McDouall Stuart
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        • Partnership or Prisoner?
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      • Capt Cook and Terra Nullius
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        • Flora >
          • Prickly Pear
          • Lantana
          • Water Hyacinth
          • Blackberry
          • Bridal Creeper
          • Para Grass
          • Olive Hymenachne
        • Indigenous ways for caring for the land
      • Why not Botany Bay?
      • Colonisation Success and Struggles >
        • Stuggles within the New Colony
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        • Threats to the New Colony
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      • Daily Life of Early Inhabitants >
        • Life of a Convict
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      • Significant People who Contributed to the Early Colony >
        • Matthew Flinders
        • Ned Kelly
      • Disclaimer Significant Aboriginal people of colonial Aust >
        • Significant Aboriginal People of colonial Aust >
          • Bennelong
          • Pemulwuy
          • Arabanoo
          • Yagan
          • Bungaree
          • Trunganini
          • Fanny Balbuk
          • Bilin Bilin
          • Wyndradyne
          • Musquito
    • Significant events that shaped Australia >
      • Significant Event; The Gold Rush >
        • Source 1
        • Source 2
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        • Source 5
        • Source 4 (Challenge)
      • Significant Event; The Eureka Stockade >
        • Activity 1
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        • Activity 4
        • Summary Activity
        • Further Information: Eureka Stockade
      • Significant events of Australia in the 19th century >
        • Gold Rushes
        • The Overland Telegraph
        • The Second Fleet
        • Myall Creek Massacre
        • The Rum Rebellion
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        • Fight for a 'Fair Go'
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Source Activity

Choose ONE (1) source from the options below and use the guiding questions on your sheet to think about possible reasons for why explorers crossed the Blue Mountains.

Source 1

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Source 2

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Gregory Blaxland

Source 3

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