ARC :: Australian History

Australian History – Activities

Activities		Work Samples
Activities		End of Stage 5 (end of Year 10)
People Power	Students examine the role of Charles Perkins in the Freedom Rides or Germaine Greer in Women’s Liberation or Sir John Kerr in the Whitlam dismissal. View...	7
A Migrant's Story - Structured Report	Students write a structured report based on their research of the experiences of migrants in Australia in the postwar period. View...	7
Experiences of the Depression	Students work in pairs to create a dialogue between two characters who had different experiences of the Great Depression. View...	4
Australia and the UN: Research Report	Students write a short structured report including a timeline, based on websites. View...	3
Stolen Generations - Structured Argument	Students write a 300-500 word letter to the editor in reply to the editor of a newspaper, based on sources. View...	3
Citizenship and Aboriginal Australians	Students will study Citizenship and Aboriginal Australians. Rights Denied to Indigenous Australians: What was assimilation and how was it applied to Aboriginal people? View...
Australia and World War 1	Students examine the experiences of Australian Soldiers at Gallipoli and the development of the Anzac tradition and write an extended response describing the experiences of the Australian soldiers. View...
Changing Rights and Freedoms	Students assess the significance of one of the following events or issues to the changing rights and freedoms of Aboriginal people. View...	2
Voting rights of different groups in pre-World War 1 Australian society	Students examine the significance of the Australian Constitution on the voting rights of Aboriginal peoples and other groups in pre-World War 1 Australian society View...