Teach the whole of Stage 2 HSIE Unit 4: Journeys and Voyages from one classroom-ready slide deck — 419 student-facing slides covering all 16 lessons plus 4 consolidation activities, built for the NSW HSIE K–6 Syllabus (2024).

What the unit covers

Students follow the great voyages of global navigation and the interactions that connected the Great Southern Land to the world. They begin with how early maps changed, move through the traditional wayfinding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, the Macassan trade with Arnhem Land and Polynesian navigation of the Pacific, then follow the navigators — Zheng He, Ibn Battuta, Columbus, Magellan, Janszoon, Hartog, Tasman, Cook, Flinders and Bungaree — before comparing the journeys and what each one connected. Throughout, students use maps, journals, artworks and oral histories as sources of evidence to build narratives of the past.

The 16 lessons

1. Connecting with people and places
2. Traditional navigation techniques
3. Arnhem Land
4. The Macassan
5. Polynesian wayfinding
6. Tools of navigation
7. Navigating the world
8. Navigating the globe
9. Terra Australis, the Great Southern Land
10. Dutch encounters with Terra Australis
11. Abel Tasman
12. Voyage of Lieutenant James Cook
13. Aboriginal Peoples and Cook
14. Matthew Flinders and Bungaree
15. Circumnavigation of Australia
16. Comparing the great journeys and voyages

Plus four consolidation activities for the two optional weeks.

Every lesson includes

• learning intention and success criteria slides
• key language cards using the unit’s own definitions
• explicit teaching slides with the source, map or video already on screen
• discussion prompts for think–pair–share and turn-and-talk
• numbered student task slides
• click-to-reveal answers, hidden until you click
• a challenge slide for extension
• a closing review and a link back to the contents page

What makes it classroom-ready

• 91 click-to-reveal answers — questions, checks for understanding and think–pair–share responses stay hidden until you click, so the same slide works for the task and the mark-up
• 61 linked sources — videos, maps, museum collections and archives, opened at the timestamp the unit asks for, so you are not searching mid-lesson
• every resource card displayed on screen, so the lesson can run before the printing is done
• a linked contents page — every lesson one click away, with a return button on every section
• editable PowerPoint with Poppins embedded, so it looks the same on any computer

Curriculum alignment

NSW HSIE K–6 Syllabus (2024), Stage 2 — focus area: History uses sources to construct narratives of the past

• HS2-ACH-01 — describes Aboriginal Peoples’ obligations to Country, Culture and Community
• HS2-HIS-01 — explains how people lived in the past and how navigation connected the world, using sources as evidence

Perfect for

• Stage 2 HSIE, Years 3 and 4
• whole-class explicit teaching on an interactive whiteboard or smartboard
• teaching the NSW unit without building slides from scratch
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
• global navigation, explorers and first contact
• relief and casual teaching — each lesson is self-contained
• an 8-week unit with 2 weeks of optional consolidation

Please note

This is the slide deck for the unit, not the unit itself. You will need access to the Stage 2 HSIE Unit 4 lesson plans to teach it — this PowerPoint supports their delivery and does not replace the teaching guidance, lesson notes, printed resource cards or professional learning that come with the original unit.

Adapted from the NSW Department of Education Stage 2 HSIE Unit 4 sample unit, used under CC BY 4.0. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the NSW Department of Education, and not an official NESA product.

Some slides link to videos, maps and archive sources, so an internet connection is needed to open them.

File details

• 1 editable PowerPoint file (.pptx), 19.7 MB, delivered as one download
• 419 slides across all 16 lessons and the 4 consolidation activities
• Poppins embedded, so it displays the same on any computer
• Stage 2, Years 3 and 4