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Significant Events
Theme: Australian history and race relations
Key Learning Area: English - Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE)
Age Group: Primary Upper (10-12) - Secondary Lower (13-14) - Secondary Middle (15-16)
Resource Type: Timelines and calendars
Stimulus Name: Timeline
Outcomes
Students identify significant events in Australia's history and speculate how they have influenced the development of our culturally diverse nation.
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Teacher's Notes (rtf File)
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Suggested Activities
1. Ask each student to write down the event they consider most important in the development of Australia as a culturally diverse nation.Ask students to share their responses and give a brief justification for their choice.Write the responses on the board and take a vote for the most significant ten.Check with Teacher's notes for any major omissions.
2. Divide the class into ten groups or pairs and assign one event to each.Write an analysis of how the event changed Australian lives. Research the historical period during which the event took place. What was the situation before the event? How did history change as a result? Individually or in groups prepare a report for presentation to the class in chronological order of the event taking place.
Additional Strategies
1. Write an imaginary interview with a person whose life was influenced by one of the events.
2. Research and write a report on the life of a person central to one of the events.
3. Collage. Each group designs an A4 print or pictorial poster highlighting the event they have studied. Group or overlap the posters on to a wall chart for classroom display.
4. Download and distribute Significant events crossword puzzle.
Related Resources
Key dates in Australia's development as a culturally diverse nation
NSW Country Areas Program/ Teacher resources/ Research Modules Stage 3 The Snowy Mountains Scheme
Racismnoway Fact sheets:
Asylum Seekers Q and A,
Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act (1975),
Commonwealth Racial Hatred Act (1995),
Institutional Racism,
Mabo and Wik,
Native Title Act (1993),
Refugees in Australia,
The Snowy Mountains Scheme- Birthplace of multiculturalism in Australia
Terra Nullius
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Racismnoway Lesson ideas:
Boat People,
Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act (1975),
Harvest of Endurance,
Institutional Racism
Myth of the Western Man,
Progress,
Reconciliation,
Reconciliation Journey,
Swamped by Refugees,
United Nations International Declaration of Human Rights (1947)
Date: 23 October 2002
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