teaching resource

Early Explorers PowerPoint

Updated: 25 May 2023

A 25 slide editable PowerPoint presentation to use when teaching students about the early explorers of Australia.

Editable: PowerPoint
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 25 Pages
Year: 4

Curriculum

ACHASSK086

The nature of contact between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and others, for example, the Macassans and the Europeans, and the effects of these interactions on, for example, people and environments
ACHASSK084

The journey(s) of AT LEAST ONE world navigator, explorer or trader up to the late eighteenth century, including their contacts with other societies and any impacts

teaching resource

Early Explorers PowerPoint

Updated: 25 May 2023

A 25 slide editable PowerPoint presentation to use when teaching students about the early explorers of Australia.

Editable: PowerPoint
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 25 Pages
Year: 4

A 25 slide editable PowerPoint presentation to use when teaching students about the early explorers of Australia.

Use this PowerPoint presentation when learning about early explorers up to the late eighteenth century and when investigating contact with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people before 1788.

This PowerPoint presentation covers the following topics:

Why people explored
Terra Australis Incognita
Early exploration of the Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and the Dutch.

This PowerPoint presentation includes:

informative slides
links to resources
whole class activities
independent tasks.

Early Explorers Vocabulary

explorer
curious
The New World
shipping
Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Christopher Columbus
discoveries
trade
Terra Australis Incognita
Great Unkown Southern Land
Zheng He
voyage
Chinese
Spanish
Portuguese
Dutch
Luis de Torres
Willem Janszoon
New Holland
navigate
Dirck Hartog
Abel Tasman
Anthony Van Diemen
journey

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Curriculum

ACHASSK086

The nature of contact between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and others, for example, the Macassans and the Europeans, and the effects of these interactions on, for example, people and environments
ACHASSK084

The journey(s) of AT LEAST ONE world navigator, explorer or trader up to the late eighteenth century, including their contacts with other societies and any impacts

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Victoria (Teach Starter) · 8 years ago

Hi Leah, Thank you for your comment and bringing this to our attention. We have removed the word 'discovered' and re-phrased Slide 5 to indicate that Christopher Columbus 'stumbled upon' the Americas. We hope you find this resource useful in the classroom when teaching about the Early Explorers. Kind regards, Victoria.
Leah Wagner · 8 years ago

Slide 5 needs rewording. Christopher Columbus did not discover 'the Americas'.