Resources+for+teachers

Grid for making a timeline. Each line equals 200 years. Discuss with students the fact that a skeleton was found at Mungo National Part that has been dated at 40 000 years. This means that people have been living in Australia for at least that long. Give each child a page and ask them to cut and paste to make 1000 years, join together to make 40 000. Label the timeline with the year 0 (when we start counting our years) and 2007. Work out how long ago the skeleton of the person that was found at Mungo died. Display around the room. Highlight the amount of time since James Cook first "discovered" Australia.