Trial and Jury lesson. 8B2 Geography White Settlers vs Aborigines

1. Trial and Jury: Should the white settlers be punished for
what they did to the Australian Aborigines?

2. • Fellow Councillors .This
slide show will go over
some of the background
evidence for the trial.
• Each slide has
information and
questions for you to
answer
• Create a fact file that
shows all your answers.

3. The Claimants (the victims)
The Claimants in this case are the Aborigines. The
following slides will you give you some information on
these characters

4. Who are the
Aborigines?
Australian Aborigines were
the first people to live on the
continent of Australia
• It is believed that they
originally travelled from
Australia to Asia
• They soon adapted to live in
the wide range of
environments that Australia
has, from deserts to tropical
rainforest.
• They learnt to live off the
land, using what they could to
survive.
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6. Questions
• Where did the Aborigines
come from?
• Write down five
characteristics of the
Aborigines ( for
example, what to they look
like? What do they wear?)

7. The defendant ( the person being
charged for a crime).
The next couple of slides will go over the characters who are said
to have committed a crime

8. The Aborigines lived peacefully
for many years… until…
• Australia was
invaded by wealthy
and powerful
Europeans.
• These people
travelled by boat to
Australia in the
1700’s.
• Captain James
Cook was one of the
first British people
to settle in
Australia.

9. - As the white settlers
landed in Australia, they
started fighting with the
Aborigines.
- The white settlers had
bought rifles and horses
to fight with the
Aborigines.
- All that the Aborigines
had were spears

10. Why did Captain James Cook and his
men want to settle in Australia?
• They Europeans wanted
to use the land to make
money.
• The Europeans believed
that they should try and
‘educate’ the Aborigines.
• The aim was to make
them more like us.
• They decided that they
could use the aborigines
to help them on the
farms.

11. Questions
• Who was one of the first people to
settle in Australia?
• What happened when the White
Settlers first arrived in Australia?
• Why did they settle in Australia? How
did they want to use the Aborigines?

12. Super Star challenge slides
The information on this slide is tricky to understand…
however, I think you are all smart enough to use it in the
trial.
• To be very snazzy, you could say that the
white settlers wanted to colonise
Australia
• Colonisation means = A group of people who
want to control a piece of land and the
people that live on that land.
• So the White Settlers wanted to colonise
Australia. They wanted to take over the
land and make the Aborigines more like us.

13. Questions
• In your own words, write a definition
for colonise ( can also be searched for
as colonialism).
• Using the internet, find out how you say
the word colonize.
Use the speaker
button to find out
how to say the
word

14. Councilors of 8B2
• Bring in your
evidence notes
for the trial
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Trial Date
18th December
11.20am.
Court will end at
12.20pm