This document provides a schedule of oral presentation topics for two students to present on various aspects of Australian history, culture, and environment over several dates. The topics include Australian Aboriginal culture before and after colonization, the arrival of convicts and settlers, immigration policies and refugees, natural resources and environmental impacts, ecological disasters and solutions, endemic and invasive species, current culture and society, permaculture, and significant Australian inventions.
This document provides a schedule of oral presentation topics for two students to present on various aspects of Australian history, culture, and environment over several dates. The topics include Australian Aboriginal culture before and after colonization, the arrival of convicts and settlers, immigration policies and refugees, natural resources and environmental impacts, ecological disasters and solutions, endemic and invasive species, current culture and society, permaculture, and significant Australian inventions.
This document provides a schedule of oral presentation topics for two students to present on various aspects of Australian history, culture, and environment over several dates. The topics include Australian Aboriginal culture before and after colonization, the arrival of convicts and settlers, immigration policies and refugees, natural resources and environmental impacts, ecological disasters and solutions, endemic and invasive species, current culture and society, permaculture, and significant Australian inventions.
11 OCT Australian Aboriginal culture (pre-contact , and the impact of colonization), art and its meaning/ symbolism (also show some contemporary paintings) 18 OCT Convicts, colonization and the arrival of settlers (incl.difficulties & lifestyle)
15 NOV Immigration – past & present
(include “white” policy) And refugees & camps
22 NOV Australian natural resources,
mining and environmental impact
29 NOV Australian ecological disasters &
solutions (including Great Barrier Reef bleaching …)
6 DEC Friend or Foe? Australia’s endemic
animals, including the most dangerous/ deadly. And invasive species (non endemic animals) incl. eradication plans
3 JAN Australian culture & society today
(including humour, and current issues / news … )
10 JAN Permaculture explained (and what
other countries apply it today)
17 JAN Australia’s most significant
inventions & their inventors (including Aboriginal inventions pre-contact)