First+Fleet+Activity


 * [[file:Gardners activities first fleet.doc]]

LEARNING INTENTIONS: Australia - Relationships and Diversity **  ·  ** To consolidate knowledge about the First Fleet and its place in Australian History **** using Some of Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences **  ·  ** To identify and describe the outcomes and consequences of this event. ** Linguistic Intelligence ||
 * *CHOOSE AND COMPLETE ANY __THREE__ ACTIVITIES IN YOUR IS1 BOOK - **
 * Block 1 – ** ** Australia ** ** ? **
 * Verbal/

Write an interview for someone who was transported to   Australia, telling a journalist about the route travelled and the conditions on board the ship. (You decide the length!) Mathematical Intelligence || Draw a Venn diagram and record in the part-circle on the left, all the crimes that you wrote down. Interview a couple of other people, write down all the ‘crimes committed’ that they wrote down on the right. Write those crimes that you both listed in the middle. Write an answer to this question: Why do you think these were the crimes that you listed in common?  Spacial Intelligence || Choose your answer to ONE of these questions: ~How did the new settlement treat the Aborigines? ~How did the military treat the convicts? Convert your answer on that ONE question into picture form. Mathematical Intelligence ||
 * Block 2 – ** ** Australia ** ** ? **
 * Logical/
 * Block 3 - **** What was life like in the new settlement? **
 * Visual/
 * Block 4 – **
 * Logical/

Draw a bar graph to compare the sentences of children to those of    adults. What conclusions can you draw about the justice system in    Britain at the time? Write your conclusion in a sentence under the bar graph. Spacial Intelligence ||
 * Block 5 – **
 * Visual/

~Create a photograph (using your own camera) based on something you found out in this block. You could get some friends to dress up and pretend to be First Fleet people **OR** ~Find a very old photograph that could represent First Fleet people AND paste thought bubbles onto TWO people. In the bubbles, write a realistic and appropriate thought that they may be having at that time, based on something you found out in this block. Linguistic Intelligence ||
 * Block 6 - **
 * Verbal/

Create a crossword puzzle containing the words: **database, prejudice, historical, relationships, diversity**. You may include other words from Block 6 too.