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We've developed this page for the Australian Curriculum to assist students and teachers in better understanding the role of the Murray River and the Murray-Darling Basin.

The region's value in both food production, geographical location, ancient Indigenous culture, natural landscapes and historical value to Australia are significant. We hope you enjoy the diversity of subjects, issues and facts. Please give us feedback and ways you feel we could improve this resource in future to assist in learnings related to the Australian Curriculum with a strong emphasis on history and geography.

Based on Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) materials downloaded from the Australian Curriculum website on (May 8, 2015). ACARA does not endorse any changes that have been made to the Australian Curriculum.

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Geography / History

F-10 Curriculum / Humanities and Social Sciences / Geography (ACARA website)
F-10 Curriculum / Humanities and Social Sciences / History (ACARA website)

Geography - Year 3 | Year 5 | Year 7
History - Year 3 | Year 5 | Year 7

Geography

Year 3 - Geography

Geographical Knowledge and Understanding

The representation of Australia as states and territories, and Australia’s major natural and human features (ACHGK014)

• Welcome to Country - Paakantji traditional owner
• The importance of the Murray River
• Murray River facts
• Mungo National Park and World Heritage Willandra Lakes 

The many Countries/Places of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples throughout Australia (ACHGK015)

• Welcome to Country - Paakantji traditional owner
• Aboriginals and the Murray River
• Indigenous Language Map of the Murray River
• Mungo National Park 
• Ponde Dreamtime Story
• Murray River Aboriginal Experiences
• Indigenous culture of north-western Victoria
• Nildottie - Evidence of Indigenous Australians over 5,000 years ago

The similarities and differences in individuals’ and groups’ feelings and perceptions about places, and how they influence views about the protection of these places (ACHGK018)

• Sustainable Tourism on the Murray River
• Management of Salinity
• Sustainable Wakeboarding
• Houseboats on the Murray River
• Don't Muck Up The Murray - Bazza the Bunyip
• Murray River Bird Trail

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Year 5 - Geography

Geographical Knowledge and Understanding

The influence of people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, on the environmental characteristics of Australian places (ACHGK027)

• Welcome to Country - Paakantji traditional owner
• Aboriginals and the Murray River
• Mungo National Park 
• Ponde Dreamtime Story
• Murray River Aboriginal Experiences
• Indigenous culture of north-western Victoria
• Nildottie - Evidence of Indigenous Australians over 5,000 years ago
• David Uniapon - Aboriginal Inventor

The influence of the environment on the human characteristics of a place (ACHGK028)

• Murray Darling Basin
• Indigenous Language Map of the Murray River
• Murray River Facts
• Locks, Weirs and Dams
• Water consumption and use
• The Living Murray
• National Parks of the Murray River region
• Murray River Bird Trail
• Drought
• Salinity
• Fruit Fly Quarantine Zones

The influence people have on the human characteristics of places and the management of spaces within them (ACHGK029)

• Sustainable Tourism on the Murray River
• The Chaffey Trail - Mildura
• Locks, Weirs and Dams
• Water consumption and use
• 1956 Murray River Floods
• Proposed Chowilla Dam - historical
• National Parks of the Murray River region
• Indigenous Language Map of the Murray River
• Drought
• Management of Salinity
• Slow Food on the Murray River
• Fruit Fly Quarantine Zones
• Historic 1956 Floods (External website)
• Sustainable Wakeboarding
• Don't Muck Up The Murray - Bazza the Bunyip

Geographical Inquiry and Skills

Represent the location and features of places and different types of geographical information by constructing large-scale and small-scale maps that conform to cartographic conventions, including border, source, scale, legend, title and north point, using spatial technologies as appropriate (ACHGK036)

• Murray River Trail
• Murray River Maps simple
• Murray River Maps (5 sections)
• Indigenous Language Map of the Murray River
• Murray Darling Basin
• Locks, Weirs and Barrages
• Murray River War Trail
• Murray River System - pdf
  

Present findings and ideas in a range of communication forms, for example, written, oral, graphic, tabular, visual and maps; using geographical terminology and digital technologies as appropriate (ACHGK038)

• Murray River App - iphone/ipad
• Murray River Passport

Year 7 - Geography

Geographical Knowledge and Understanding

Unit 1: Water in the World

The way that flows of water connect places as it moves through the environment and the way this affects places (ACHGK038)

• Murray Darling Basin
• River Landscapes
• Agriculture in the Basin
• The Chaffey Trail - Mildura
• 1956 Murray River Floods
• Locks, Weirs and Dams
• The Living Murray
• River Red Gums
• A beautiful river worth saving
• Sustainable Tourism on the Murray River
• Murray River Bird Trail
• Drought
• Management of Salinity
• 1956 Murray River Floods
• Sustainable Wakeboarding
• Houseboats on the Murray River
• Don't Muck Up The Murray - Bazza the Bunyip

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History

Year 3 - History

Historical Knowledge and Understanding

Community and remembrance

The importance of Country and Place to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples who belong to a local area. (This is intended to be a local area study with a focus on one Language group; however, if information or sources are not readily available, another representative area may be studied) (ACHHK060)

• Welcome to Country - Paakantji traditional owner
• Aboriginals and the Murray River
• Mungo National Park and World Heritage Willandra Lakes 
• Ponde Dreamtime Story
• Murray River Aboriginal Experiences
• Indigenous culture of north-western Victoria
• Nildottie - Evidence of Indigenous Australians over 5,000 years ago
• David Uniapon - Aboriginal Inventor
• Indigenous Language Map of the Murray River

ONE important example of change and ONE important example of continuity over time in the local community, region or state/territory; for example, in relation to the areas of transport, work, education, natural and built environments, entertainment, daily life (ACHHK061)

• The first paddle steamers on the Murray Darling Basin
• Corowa - Australia's birthplace of Federation
• Chaffey Brothers and Irrigation history in Australia
• The Chaffey Trail - Mildura
• Invention of the Steam powered motor car - Mannum (external website)
• David Uniapon - Aboriginal Inventor
• Aboriginal Canoe Trees
• Invention of the Stump-jump-plough

The role that people of diverse backgrounds have played in the development and character of the local community (ACHHK062)

• Murray River War Trail and Soldier Settlements
• Slow Food on the Murray River

Days and weeks celebrated or commemorated in Australia (including Australia Day, ANZAC Day, Harmony Week, National Reconciliation Week, NAIDOC week and National Sorry Day) and the importance of symbols and emblems. (ACHHK063)

• Robinvale - Sister town to Villers-Bretonneaux (World War I) - Anzac Day

Historical Skills

Chronology, terms and concepts

Sequence historical people and events (ACHHS065)

• Murray River Historical Timeline - Ancient River to 1900
• Murray River Historical Timeline - 1900-1950
• Murray River Historical Timeline - 1951-Present
• Murray River Aboriginals Timeline
• Captain Charles Sturt
• Corowa - Australia's birthplace of Federation

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Year 5 - History

Historical Knowledge and Understanding

The Australian colonies

Reasons (economic, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after 1800. (ACHHK093)

• Captain Charles Sturt
• Great Australian Explorers, Bushrangers and Legends
• The first paddle steamers
• Corowa - Australia's birthplace of Federation
• Chaffey Brothers and Irrigation history
• The Chaffey Trail - Mildura

The impact of a significant development or event on a colony; for example, frontier conflict, the gold rushes, the Eureka Stockade, internal exploration, the advent of rail, the expansion of farming, drought. (ACHHK095)

• Captain Charles Sturt
• Great Australian Explorers, Bushrangers and Legends
• The first paddle steamers
• Corowa - Australia's birthplace of Federation
• Chaffey Brothers and Irrigation history

The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony; for example, explorers, farmers, entrepreneurs, artists, writers, humanitarians, religious and political leaders, and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples. (ACHHK097)

• Captain Charles Sturt
• Hume and Hovell discover the river
• Great Australian Explorers, Bushrangers and Legends
• The first paddle steamers
• Chaffey Brothers and Irrigation history
• The Man from Snowy River
• David Uniapon - Aboriginal Inventor

Historical Skills

Chronology, terms and concepts

Sequence historical people and events (ACHHS098)

• Murray River Historical Timeline - Ancient River to 1900
• Murray River Historical Timeline - 1900-1950
• Murray River Historical Timeline - 1951-Present
• Murray River Aboriginals Timeline
• Captain Charles Sturt
• Corowa - Australia's birthplace of Federation

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Year 7 - History

Investigating the ancient past

The nature of the sources for ancient Australia and what they reveal about Australia’s past in the ancient period, such as the use of resources (ACDSEH031)

• Welcome to Country - Paakantji traditional owner
• Mungo National Park and World Heritage Willandra Lakes 
• Mega Fauna of the Murray Darling Basin
• Nildottie - Evidence of Indigenous Australians over 5,000 years ago

The importance of conserving the remains of the ancient past, including the heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. (ACDSEH148)

• Mungo National Park and World Heritage Willandra Lakes
• Nildottie - Evidence of Indigenous Australians over 5,000 years ago

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Historical Skills

Chronology, terms and concepts

Sequence historical events, developments and periods (ACHHS205)

• Murray River Historical Timeline - Ancient River to 1900
• Murray River Historical Timeline - 1900-1950
• Murray River Historical Timeline - 1951-Present
• Murray River Aboriginals Timeline
• Corowa - Australia's birthplace of Federation

Historical questions and research

Identify a range of questions about the past to inform a historical inquiry (ACHHS207)

• Aboriginal communities and life
• Nildottie - Evidence of Indigenous Australians over 5,000 years ago
• David Uniapon - Aboriginal Inventor
• Captain Charles Sturt
• Hume and Hovell discover the river
• Great Australian Explorers, Bushrangers and Legends
• The first paddle steamers
• Corowa - Australia's birthplace of Federation
• Chaffey Brothers and Irrigation history
• The Chaffey Trail - Mildura
• 1956 Murray River Floods
• Locks, Weirs and Dams
• Snowy Hydro Scheme
• The Man from Snowy River
• Murray River Historical and Heritage locations
• Historic Murray River Flags - 1853
• Murray River War Trail
• Invention of the Stump-jump-plough

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