First Fleet - Research and Activities

This pack is designed to help students understand the ships of the First Fleet, the journey it took and the convicts on board.

Includes:

• Ship profiles for all the 11 ships in both colour and black and white
• Comparing ships
• Mapping the Journey of the First Fleet
• First Fleet Timeline
• Convicted Crimes
• Life in the Colony
• Convict Research Task
• Convict Profile
• Why were convicts transported to Australia? cloze activity
• Life as a Convict on the First Fleet (using the 5 senses)
• First Fleet Provisions
• Postcards from a Convict
• A Different Perspective Venn diagram (the perspective of a convict vs a First Nation’s Aboriginal)