Check understanding

• Explain how First Nations Australians shaped places through practices such as cultural burning and building fish or eel traps (e.g. Budj Bim in Victoria or the Brewarrina fish traps in New South Wales)
• Describe how people in another country influence an Australian place (e.g. overseas demand for minerals creating mining towns, or migrant communities shaping a suburb's shops and food)
• Compare how a place's characteristics changed through human influence, using two maps or photos

“Does your child know that First Nations people shaped the land with practices like eel traps and burning — and that people overseas influence Australian places too, like mining towns?”