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Rigby Blueprints
Beginnings weblinks
Scene Setter
Australian Explorers
http://australianexplorers.tripod.com/maps.htm
Find out about early maps of Australia.
Big Ideas Book page/s: 4–5
Pacing Text 1
Frog and Toad’s Indigenous Australia
http://www.indigenousaustralia.info/index.php
This site includes information about Indigenous Australian life.
Big Ideas Book page/s: 10–11
Pacing Text 2
ABC History Website
http://www.abc.net.au/navigators/history/earlyexplore.htm
Offers more information about the early explorers.
Big Ideas Book page/s: 24–25
Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/australia.shtml
Another site with information about the early explorers of Australia.
Big Ideas Book page/s: 24–25
The Mariner’s Museum
http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/cook.php
Find out about Captain James Cook.
Big Ideas Book page/s: 34–39
Pacing Text 3
First Fleet Fellowship
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~firstff/
This site has information about the people of the First Fleet, including the list of provisions they brought out with them.
Big Ideas Book page/s: 50–53
First Fleet Online
http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/index.html
Further information about the people on the First Fleet.
Big Ideas Book page/s: 50–53