Australian History True or False (Grade 5)
Free printable Australian history true or false worksheet for Grade 5. Students decide whether each respectful, factual statement is true.
Grade 5 · History worksheet
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Australian History: True or False
Read each statement about Australian history and circle True or False.
- 1.True or False: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the First Australians.
- a) True
- b) False
- 2.True or False: An Acknowledgement of Country shows respect for the Traditional Owners of the land.
- a) True
- b) False
- 3.True or False: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples first arrived in Australia in 1901.
- a) True
- b) False
- 4.True or False: The Australian colonies became one nation through Federation in 1901.
- a) True
- b) False
- 5.True or False: The gold rush of the 1850s sent people to the Moon.
- a) True
- b) False
- 6.True or False: The First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove in 1788.
- a) True
- b) False
- 7.True or False: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have the oldest continuous living cultures on Earth.
- a) True
- b) False
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Accuracy and sources
These references support the historical wording and answer key on this worksheet.
- Australian Government Style Manual — First Nations terminology — advises that 'Dreamtime' is not universally preferred and that community-specific terminology should be respected
- AIATSIS — continuing cultures — supports the description of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures as the world's oldest continuing cultures