All components needed are included within the student tabs.
Introduction
Introduction
The focus of this unit is the invasion, colonisation and development of Australia as a nation.
You have already learned about Indigenous Australian's before colonisation, and why and how Britain Colonised Australia.
NOW it is time to discover what impact European colonisation had on Australia's Indigenous people.
Task
Task
MEDIA ALERT!
Learning Goal: Your team of investigative journalists has been given the following assignment:
Report on one of the important events that occurred involving Indigenous Australians and European settlers, during the colonisation of Australia.
You may choose to present your report in the form of
a newspaper article
OR
a television news story
OR
a short documentary
You have a DEADLINE of 2 weeks to complete your News Report. NEWS FLASH!
We will be inviting Special Guests - members from the public (parents & teachers) and from the local media to view your team presentations.
Process
Process
Step 1
Your News Director/Managing Editor (teacher) will ask you to team up with two other journalists. Your team will need to decide on who will be responsible for the following journalistic roles:
- Investigative Reporter: thoroughly researches the event and gathers information; analyses documents and primary sources, and conducts interviews.
- Sub-Editor: takes the information from the reporter, puts it into a form which suits the needs of the chosen presentation (newspaper article, radio news podcast, television news story or short documentary), and concentrates on how the report can best be presented.
- Photojournalist: finds, takes and/or uses photographs or footage to tell the news.
All members of your team will be Specialist Writers and work together to contribute to the writing of your news report. Your team may decide to be Advocacy Journalists and adopt a non-objective viewpoint, intentionally writing from the perspective of either the Europeans or Aborigines. 
Step 2
The News Director/Managing Editor has outlined the following important events that occurred between Indigenous Australians and European settlers, during early colonisation.
Take a look at the Timeline of Aboriginal History. This will give you a brief overview of some of the events that occurred involving Indigenous Australians and Europeans.
Download, print and use the Research Scaffold sheet to help you answer the key questions needed to write your news report. This needs to be submitted to the News Director/Managing Editor at the end of Step 3.
Step 3
BREAKING NEWS!Your team of journalists must decide on, and choose, one of these incidents to research, write about and present in the form of a NEWS REPORT (newspaper article, television news story or short documentary).Use the provided links to help you gather your information. Look for other sources if you can!!! If you have a different incident that your team is interested in reporting on, please negotiate this with your News Director/Managing Editor. 
The capture of Arabanoo
Biography of Arabanoo Australian History: Arabanoo First attempts of communication Eye witness accounts Images of Arabanoo 
The Black Wars
Van Diemen's Land Aborigines relocate to Flinders Island
Tragic history of the First Tasmanians
Famous Australians - Truganini
First Australians clip: Her will to survive
Bennelong travels to Britain
Pemulwuy killed
Australia's oldest Murder Mystery
First Australians clip: Pemulwuy
Windradyne is captured
The Myall Creek Massacre
The story of the Myall Creek Massacre
Jandamarra's War
Jandamarra - A Legend of the Bunuba people
STOP PRESS!
Your team needs to submit your Research Scaffold sheet to the News Director/Managing Editor for FEEDBACK, before you go any further with the production of your News Report.
Step 4
Now that your Investigative Reporter has researched the facts, your Photojournalist has collected the necessary images for your report and your News Director/Managing Editor has given you FEEDBACK, it is time to work together as specialist writers to write your news story.
Remember that you need to write in a journalistic style, relevant to the type of news presentation your team will be producing (a newspaper article, radio news podcast, television news story or short documentary). Your Sub-Editor's expertise, as well as your News Director's/Managing Editor's comments, will help with the wording and editing of your news report or script.
You may choose to report on the incident from one side's perspective (ie. the European settlers or the Aborigines). This is known as Advocacy Journalism. If your team chooses to write like this, you need to give your news report more than just aslant - you need to intentionally have an opinion about the story you are writing.
Choosing to write your news report from a particular perspective will generatemore points for your journalistic team in the marking criteria.
Step 5
Well done on your specialist writing!
Now it is time to produce your report, using your chosen style of presentation. NEWS FLASH!As well as investigative journalists, you must also be your own production team.
You will need to assume new roles for this part of your task. All members of your production team can assist with the technical aspects (formatting, filming, recording etc).
Writer: types up the article or script. Creative Director/Director: makes the final creative decisions about what is included in the final newspaper page, radio podcast, television report or documentary. Paginator/News Reader: enters the text and images into the newspaper templateORreads the news story or script. 
The links below will help you with the production of your final News Report: Template for making a Front Page newspaper article Tips on how to make a video news report Storyboard Template for documentary
Evaluation
Evaluation
This is how your work will be evaluated.
| Beginning 1 |
Developing 2 |
Qualified 3 |
Exemplary 4 |
Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intended Use | Produces a news story with insufficient details | Produces a basic outline of a news story | Produces a news story with sufficient details | Produces a detailed and in-depth news story | |
| Information | News story contains very little factual information | New story was a brief factual outline of the event only | News story contained factual, relevant information about the event | News Story contained factual, relevant information including what led up to the event | |
| Understanding | Information was copied directly from other source(s) | Information was mostly copied from other source(s) | Information was written in some of students' own words | Information was primarily written in students' own words | |
| Perspective | News story was presented with no bias | News story was presented with limited bias towards one group or the other | News story was somewhat presented from one group's perspective | News story was clearly presented from one group's perspective | |
| Presentation | News story was not authentically presented | News story was present with few authentic elements | News story was presented with several authentic elements | News story was presented with attention given to authentic details | |
| Sources | News story includes image only as reference to a source | News story includes reference to some form of source material (eg. witness, historian, photograph, artist) as well as image | - | - | |
|
Team Work |
Had difficulty fulfilling individual responsibilities of team role(s) |
Partly fulfilled individual responsibilities of team role(s) |
Fulfilled individual responsibilities of team role(s) to the best of ability |
- |
|
Conclusion
Conclusion
YOU MADE THE DEADLINE!
Before you submit your News Report to the News Director/Managing Editor, make sure you read through the following Success Criteria to ensure you have reached yourLearning Goal.
I know I am successful when:
- my team chooses a major incident that occurred, during the colonisation of Australia, involving Indigenous Australians and European settlers.
- my team members choose specific journalistic and production roles (and fulfil the responsibilities of these roles)
- my team uses the Research Scaffold to assist in the investigative research phase
- my team gathers the facts and necessary images and interviews to write our News Report
- my team gets feedback from the News Director/Managing Editor
- my team co-operatively writes our News Report from a particular perspective, in our own words
- my team decides on a form of presentation in which to share our News Report
- my team produces an authentic-looking newspaper article OR radio news podcast OR television news story OR short documentary
Your News Director/Managing Editor will decide on the order each team presents their News Report. Remember, that our Special Guests for your presentations will be members of the public (parents) and from the local media. Please complete the Team Project Processing Form and fill in your reflection.Download and print off the Carousel Feedback Form in preparation for team presentations. FINISHED BEFORE THE DEADLINE?
Our Special Guests will need to be invited to the public presentations of your News Reports. Share your invitation ideas with your teacher.
Credits
Credits
Resources:
NSW Adaption of the Australian Curriculum for History
Perkins, Rachel (Director/Writer/Producer). (2008) First Australians SBS Television Documentary: Australia
The Carousel Feedback Form and Team Project Processing Form were taken from the Kagan Cooperative Learning (by Dr Spencer & Miguel Kagan, Hawker Brownlow Education 2009) manual.
Images:
This Web Quest was adapted from Robyn McCarthy's original version