Learning Areas
Civics and Citizenship | English | HASS | History | Visual Arts
In this unit
Students learn about past and present changemakers, including the legacy of William Cooper and the origins of NAIDOC Week. They think critically and creatively about the kind of future they want to help shape for next generations through yarning, campaign planning and visual arts.
This unit includes:
Learning Areas
- AC9E5LY01
Describe the ways in which a text reflects the time and place in which it was created - AC9E5LY02
Use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea - AC9E5LY03
Explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text - AC9E5LY04
Navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming - AC9E6LY01
Examine texts including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they were created - AC9E6LY03
Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences - AC9E6LY04
Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, monitoring meaning and evaluating the use of structural features; for example, table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings - AC9E6LY06
Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features - AC9E6LY02
Use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions - AC9E7LE01
Identify and explore ideas, points of view, characters, events and/or issues in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and/or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
- AC9E8LE01
Explain the ways that ideas and points of view may represent the values of individuals and groups in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors - AC9E8LY01
Identify how texts reflect contexts - AC9E8LY06
plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising and expanding ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical
- AC9HH7S05
Describe causes and effects, and explain continuities and changes - AC9HH7S06
Identify perspectives, attitudes and values of the past in sourcesAC9HH7S07
Explain historical interpretations about significant events, individuals and groups - AC9HH8S05
Describe causes and effects, and explain continuities and changes - AC9HH8S06
Identify perspectives, attitudes and values of the past in sources - AC9HH8S07
Explain historical interpretations about significant events, individuals and groups - AC9HH8S01
Develop historical questions about the past to inform historical inquiry - AC9HH8S02
Locate and identify primary and secondary sources to use in historical inquiry - AC9HH8S03
Identify the origin, content, context and purpose of primary and secondary sources - AC9HH8S04
Identify and describe the accuracy and usefulness of primary and secondary sources as
- AC9HS5K06
The key values and features of Australia’s democracy, including elections, and the roles and responsibilities of elected representatives - AC9HS5K07
How citizens (members of communities) with shared beliefs and values work together to achieve a civic goal - AC9HS5S01
Develop questions to investigate people, events, developments, places and systems - AC9HS5S02
Locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources in a range of formats - AC9HS5S03
Evaluate information and data in a range of formats to identify and describe patterns and trends, or to infer relationships - AC9HS5S04
Evaluate primary and secondary sources to determine origin, purpose and perspectives - AC9HS5S06
Propose actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects - AC9HS5S07
Present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions - AC9HS6K02
Changes in Australia's political system and to Australian citizenship after Federation and throughout the 20th century that impacted First Nations Australians, migrants, women and children - AC9HS6K03
The motivation of people migrating to Australia since Federation and throughout the 20th century, their stories and effects on Australian society, including migrants from the Asia region - AC9HS6S01
Develop questions to investigate people, events, developments, places and systems - AC9HS6S02
Locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources in a range of formats - AC9HS6S03
Evaluate information and data in a range of formats to identify and describe patterns and trends, or to infer relationships - AC9HS6S04
Evaluate primary and secondary sources to determine origin, purpose and perspectives - AC9HS6S05
Develop evidence-based conclusions - AC9HS6S06
Propose actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects - AC9HH8S08
Create descriptions, explanations and historical arguments, using historical knowledge, concepts and terms that reference evidence from sources
- AC9AVA6C01
Use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to plan and create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning - AC9AVA8C01
Generate, document and develop ideas for artworks - AC9AVA8C02
Select and manipulate visual conventions, visual arts processes and/or materials to create artworks that represent ideas, perspectives and/or meaning - AC9AVA10E01
Investigate the ways that artists across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts develop personal expression in their visual arts practice to represent, communicate and/or challenge ideas, perspectives and/or meaning - AC9AVA10E02
Investigate the ways that First Nations Australian artists celebrate and challenge multiple perspectives of Australian identity through their artworks and visual arts practice - AC9AVA10D01
Experiment with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to refine skills and develop personal expression - AC9AVA10D02
Reflect on the way they and other visual artists respond to influences to inspire, develop and resolve choices they make in their own visual arts practice
General Capabilities
- develop questions to investigate complex issues and topics
- questions developed assist in forming an understanding of why phenomena or issues arise
Cross Curriculum Priorities
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
- A_TSICP1
First Nations communities of Australia maintain a deep connection to, and responsibility for, Country/Place and have holistic values and belief systems that are connected to the land, sea, sky and waterways. - A_TSICP2
The occupation and colonisation of Australia by the British, under the now overturned doctrine of terra nullius, were experienced by First Nations Australians as an invasion that denied their occupation of, and connection to, Country/Place. - A_TSICP3
The First Peoples of Australia are the Traditional Owners of Country/Place, protected in Australian Law by the Native Title Act 1993 which recognises pre-existing sovereignty, continuing systems of law and customs, and connection to Country/Place. This recognised legal right provides for economic sustainability and a voice into the development and management of Country/Place.
- A_TSIP3
The significant and ongoing contributions of First Nations Australians and their histories and cultures are acknowledged locally, nationally and globally.
Unit Content
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Special Release Community
Years 5-10
Civics and Citizenship
English
HASS
History
Visual Arts
2 x 70 minutes
Unit Includes
- 1 Focus Area
- 2 Lessons
