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Activity page 3C Your textbook account or comic strip 6 7 8 9 10 12 Myths and Mysteries of the Crossing of the Blue Mountains
Activity page 4A A ‘virtual visit’ to the Blue Mountains 1 What are you investigating? Watch the film from 00:00 to 02:20. 1.1 What are the Blue Mountains? 1.2 Where are they? 1.3 What are your impressions of them? 1.4 What are the three things that the memorial says happened? 1.5 Why does the presenter think the memorial might not be accurate? 2 The context and the problem Watch the film from 02:20 to 05:50. 2.1 Explain the background of Sydney as a penal colony during the period 1788–1830. 2.2 What was the problem that the colony had to solve? 2.3 How would crossing the Blue Mountains solve this problem? 2.4 Why were the Blue Mountains so hard to cross? Learn more Go to>> Prepare to explore Investigation 1: What are the Blue Mountains? Investigation 2: How were the Blue Mountains formed? Learn more Go to>> Investigation 3: Why did explorers want to cross the Blue Mountains? 3 The explorers Watch the film from 05:50 to 08:45. 3.1 What were the main qualities of the three explorers? 3.2 What was their main interest in crossing the mountains? 3.3 How do the objects at the National Museum of Australia help you to understand the explorers and their motivation? Learn more Go to>> Investigation 4: Who actually crossed the Blue Mountains? Investigation 7: Were Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth really the first to cross the Blue Mountains? 4 The journey Watch the film from 08:45 to 12:00. 4.1 What were the difficulties and challenges the explorers faced? 4.2 How did the explorers progress? 4.3 What was the explorers’ ‘secret’? 4.4 What is the significance of Red Hands Cave? 4.5 Why did the explorers ignore the local Aboriginal people? 4.6 What was the significance of what the explorers saw at Mount York? Learn more Go to>> Investigation 5: How did the explorers achieve their crossing in 1813? Investigation 6: What was their journey like? Myths and Mysteries of the Crossing of the Blue Mountains 13
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