John Macarthur - Australian Bank Note Biographies $2 Note

This is the first of a series of resources looking at the lives of the people depicted on the various Australian bank notes from 1966 onwards.

This resource consists of two activities for students to work through.

This activity is designed to help students gain an understanding of the life of famous and important people in Australia’s and world history. The activity is intended to be used as a research activity.

Students will research the story of John Macarthur who has been described as the Father of the Australian Sheep industry.

The activity will require students to search for information from a variety of websites. Space has been provided for students to record the sources of information.

The activity should be used when learning about Australian communities or colonial figures of importance in the early settlement. It could be used as a homework task after discussion in the classroom, as an activity to complete as a cover, or extra lesson when the regular teacher is not present, or as an activity to complete during class time.

There are two activities included in this activity.

1. Research activity.
2. John Macarthur word search activity (Find-A-Word)

Answer sheets are included

If you find this activity useful, you will find similar activities on other famous explorers in the store including

• Captain Cook
• Matthew Flinders
• Marco Polo