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Rationale
The Australian Curriculum has recognized History as an important area of study, as it allows students to develop the ability to question, think
critically, solve problems and communicate effectively. An understanding of past events and how they have shaped Australia today is an important
foundation for students to build. This knowledge will enable them to think about and respond to today’s issues and act as an active and informed
citizen (ACARA, 2016).
This unit focuses on Australia’s development as a nation from Federation up until today by exploring the different waves of migration through the
stories of individual migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Students will identify the reasons why people left their homelands, and explore the
social, cultural, economic and political contributions migrants have made to Australia. Students will also have the opportunity to investigate the
changes in Australia’s immigration policies, the beliefs of which they were based on and the implications they have on past and future immigrants.
The engagement of Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia is also explore, enabling students to understand how we are connected with diverse
people and places across the world (ACARA, 2016). The unit also aims to develop student’s understanding and appreciation of diversity within their
own classroom and school, as well as the broader Australian community as a result of studying migrant’s stories. By the end I hope to have created a
sense of community in the classroom, as students will understand that Australia is nation of many immigrants from many different backgrounds.
This is particularly important in today’s multicultural society.
Unit Outline
Students explore the different waves of migration throughout Australia’s history since Federation. By the end of the unit students will understand:
• People migrate for many different reasons
• The difference between a refugee, asylum seeker and migrant
• The impact of migration on Australian society (including economic and social development)
• Diversity is a result of all the different waves of migration throughout Australia’s history
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Australian Curriculum
Historical content descriptors to be taught General capabilities & cross-curriculum priorities
Historical knowledge & understanding Inquiry Skills
• Stories of groups of people who migrated • Develop appropriate questions to guide an Literacy
to Australia since Federation (including inquiry about people, events, developments, Numeracy
from ONE country of the Asian region) places, systems and challenges (ACARA, ICT Competence
and reasons they migrated (ACARA, 2016, 2016, CHASSI122) Critical & Creative Thinking
ACHASSK136) • Locate and collect relevant information and Ethical Behaviour
• The contribution of individual’s and data from primary sources and secondary Intercultural Understanding
groups to the development of Australian sources (ACARA, 2016, ACHASSI123)
society since Federation (ACARA, 2016, • Sequence information about people’s lives, Asia and Asia’s Engagement with Australia
ACHASS137) events, developments and phenomena using
• Who can be an Australian citizen, the a variety of methods including timelines
formal rights and responsibilities, and (ACARA, 2016, ACHASSI125)
shared values of Australian citizenship • Interact with others with respect, identify
(ACARA, 2016, ACHCK038) different points of view and share personal
perspectives and opinions (ACARA, 2016,
ACHCS043)
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Achievement standards
Historical Knowledge & understanding Inquiry skills
By the end of Year 6, students explain the significance of an Students develop appropriate questions to frame an investigation. They
event/development, and individual and/or group. They describe the locate and collect useful data and information from primary and
causes and effects of change on society. They compare the experiences secondary sources. They identify different perspectives in the past and
of different people in the past and they can explain what it means to be present. Students sequences information about events, the lives of
an Australian citizen (ACARA, 2016). individuals and selected phenomena in chronological order and represent
time by creating timelines (ACARA, 2016).
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immigration for each historical event regarding Australian migration (ACARA, 2016,
• Students create their own copy of the ACHASSI125). The class timelines will provide a
timeline to add to their portfolio visual aid for students, which will help identify
• Explain to students that they will be creating a cause and effect relationships between events
portfolio in which they will add new and people throughout the unit.
information to each week, and hand out
rubric
• At the end of the lesson students add new
ideas and information to their concept map
Week 2:
(60 minutes) Report • http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/me
• Ask if any students have been to the Snowy Report is added to portfolio. dia/102912/the-snowy-mountains-
Mountains? Does anyone know what the This activity allows students to explore a pull scheme-1949
Snowy Mountain Hydro Scheme is? factor that has contributed to people migrating to • http://dl.nfsa.gov.au/clip/droughtdef
• Watch short video clip explaining the Snowy Australia (ACARA, 2016, 2016ACHASSK136) and eat/
Mountain Scheme and the people who the impact the scheme had on Australia’s social
migrated to Australia to work on it and environmental development (ACARA, 2016,
• In small groups students then research ACHASSK137). It also requires students to find
information about the Scheme and write a their own sources of primary and secondary
short summary of their findings information (ACARA, 2016, ACHASSI123).
• Discuss the social, political and cultural
developments and evaluate their impact on
Australia
(60 minutes)
• In pairs, students conduct research to find Migrant Profile
an interview with a migrant who worked on Profile is added to portfolio. This activity requires • http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewi
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the Snowy Mountain Scheme students to find their own primary source of ng/R11323/index.html
• Students create a short profile on their information (ACARA, 2016, ACHASSI123) and • http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrr
migrant describing their experiences, and examine the different experiences people had, Secure/Sites/Web/snowy/Snowy/ass
making note of the positives and negatives therefore promoting perspective and empathy in ets/pdfs/audio_transcripts.pdf
• Pairs share their stories with the class and students.
compare migrants experiences
• At the end of the lesson students add new
ideas and information to their concept map
Week 3:
(60 minutes) News Article
• Students are presented with a set of Article is added to portfolio. This activity allows • http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/
photographs depicting ‘boat people’ arriving students to explore a push factor that has ?pi=nla.pic-vn3300297
in Australia, no further information is contributed to people migrating to Australia • http://stories.anmm.gov.au/tudo/
provided (ACARA, 2016, ACHASSK136). Further, it
• In small groups students conduct their own introduces the topic of Asia and Australia’s
investigation and write an article explaining engagement with Asia. The photographs are a
what they think is happening in the photo and useful primary source to prompt students to
why develop compelling questions to guide their
• Groups share their articles with the class inquiry for the article (ACARA, 2016,
• At the end of the lesson explain the true story ACHASSI123).
behind the photographs
• Students then compare their articles with the
truth, noting similarities and differences Timeline
• Explain the difference between refugee, Timeline is added to portfolio. This demonstrates • http://www.nma.gov.au/interactives
asylum seeker and migrant student’s skills to sequence events in /tlf/hong_hai/
(60 minutes) chronological order (ACARA, 2016, ACHASSI125).
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In constructivist classrooms students are challenged to solve problems and use inquiry methods to ask lots of questions, investigate topics, and use
appropriate resources to find answers (Woolfolk & Margetts, 2013, pg. 99). A variety of inquiry skills are encouraged and developed throughout this
unit, in particular questioning, researching, analyzing and communicating (ACARA, 2016). For instance, in week three students are presented with
photographs with no background information, this encourages students develop critical questions to help them understand what is happening in this
photographs and why. These questions then guide students to make further inquiries into the photographs and conduct their own research, and
locate and analyse relevant information to answer these questions.
Constructivist classrooms also rely heavily on collaborative activities (Woolfolk & Margetts, 2013, pg. 99). This unit requires students to work
together in pairs or small groups, and exchange ideas in groups or as a whole class. This teaches them to communicate their ideas effectively,
interact with others with respect, and consider different points of view and opinions. In this way, students learn not just from themselves, but also
from each other (Le Cornu & Peters, 2005, pg. 58). Group work is also linked to the general capability of personal and social capability, as students’
abilities to work collaboratively, aspects of interpersonal skills, leadership and effective communication (ACARA, 2016).
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Assessment Rationale
Students are given opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and understanding across a range of assessments. Both formative and
summative assessments are used throughout this unit to provide feedback to students and promote effective learning.
The first formative assessment requires students to create an ongoing concept map, in which they add new ideas and understandings in each lesson.
It gives insight into students’ initial understandings, which allows me to identify any gaps in students’ knowledge (Tuttle, 2014, pg. 41). It also
provides a visual representation for the students to see the relationships between ideas, as well as for the teacher to see how students are
progressing and visualize the changes in their thinking (Tuttle, 2014, pg. 41).
Next students are required to create an ongoing portfolio as a form of summative assessment (Gilbert & Hoepper, 2014, pg. 109). The portfolio is a
useful collection of student’s work from throughout the unit. The purpose of the portfolio is to document the wide range of work students create,
and to demonstrate their developing understanding of the topic of migration (Gilbert &Hoepper, 2014, pg. 109). This is assessed as a whole at the
end of the unit against the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards using clear criteria set out in a rubric to ensure students are fulfilling the
curriculum requirements (ACARA, 2016).
The final assessment is a self-reflection completed individually by each student. This is a formative assessment, which allows students to reflect on
their own learning and encourages them to think about what they have learnt and make connections to their own lives (Hoepper, pg. 109). While
this does not go towards their grade, the information provided by student can be used for planning future lessons and goals for students.
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citizenship. citizenship.
Students develop Excellent understanding of how to Good understanding of how to Basic understanding of how to Shows no understanding
appropriate questions to generate appropriate questions at generate appropriate questions develop appropriate questions of how to generate
frame an investigation all stages of an inquiry. Able to to guide the identification and to guide an inquiry. appropriate questions to
develop different types of location of useful sources for an guide an inquiry.
questions for different purposes, to inquiry.
guide research to useful sources.
Locate and collect useful Excellent collection of information Good collection of information Basic collection of information. Obtained no collection of
information from a range of gathered from using digital gathered form using digital Some of which is unrelated to useful information that is
sources technology on migration and technology on migration and the task. useful for the unit.
individual experiences. Includes a individual experiences. Includes a
wide range of sources, including variety of different sources,
interviews, maps, photographs, including interviews, maps,
and personal documents. photographs and personal
documents.
Sequence information Excellent understanding of how to Good understanding of how to Basic understanding of how to Does not demonstrate an
about events and locate key events, ideas, locate key events, ideas, sequence events, ideas and understanding of how to
individuals and represent it movements and lives in movements and lives in lives in chronological order on sequence events, ideas
on a timeline chronological order on a timeline, chronological order on a timeline, a timeline. and lives in chronological
including the different waves of including the different waves of order on a timeline.
migration since Federation, and migration since Federation, and
individual journeys of migration. individual journeys of migration.
Interact with others with Excellent interaction with others in Good participation in group work Little participation in group Did not participate in
respect, identify different group work and class discussions. and class discussions. Shared work and class discussions. group work or class
points of view and share Communicated ideas across ideas effectively and respected Showed little respect for other discussions. Did not
personal perspectives and effectively and respected other other people’s points of view. people’s points of view. respect other people’s
opinions people’s points of view. points of view.
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