Core Learning Outcome

TCC 3.1

Students use evidence about innovations in media and technology to investigate how these have changed society.

Students know:

 

 

 

Evidence over time

 

sources of evidence

·           pictures

·           diagrams

·           maps

·           timelines and sequences

·           printed texts

·           reference materials

·           stories

·           artefacts

·           middens

·           vegetation patterns

·           electronically sourced information

·           resource people/specialists

innovations in media and technology

·           steam power

·           harnessing energy (oil, solar)

·           communications (telegraph, email)

·           transport (cars)

·           health (inoculations)

·           education (computers)

how these have changed society

·            rapid spread of goods and ideas

·            positive and negative environmental effects

·            increased population

·            increased occupational specialisation

·            wider social interdependence

·            awareness of other cultures and wider issues

Students can:

 

 

 

Investigating

use evidence to investigate

recognise stages of an investigation e.g.

·          tune in to the topic

·          explore knowledge and viewpoints

·          look for evidence

·          draw and sort information from evidence

  • test whether information answers questions
  • make conclusions
  • reflect on the investigation

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 3.2

Students create sequences and timelines about specific Australian changes and continuities.

Students know:

 

 

Changes and continuities

specific Australian changes and continuities

·           land and sea exploration (crossing the Blue Mountains, journey of Captain James Cook, modern exploration for minerals in Queensland)

·           environmental campaigns (Queensland’s first national park)

·           drought (the 1940s drought as represented by Russell Drysdale)

·           introduced species (rabbits, prickly pear, pests associated with modern shipping trade)

·           immigration over time or due to a specific event (post-World War II)

·           settlement/invasion

·           Federation

·           economic change (1930s Depression)

·           technological developments (building of overland telegraph, stump-jump plough)

·           disasters (Cyclone Tracey)

·           social upheaval (Myall Creek Massacre)

·           Indigenous events as identified by local Indigenous representatives

Students can:

 

 

Creating

create sequences and timelines

·           identify aspects of an event in a text and transpose to a simple timeline (time of introduction and effects of non-native species into Australia)

·           use a database to record seasonal data using Indigenous reference system

·           arrange pictorial or textual descriptions of aspects of an event in sequential order (flow chart of Federation)

·           create before and after representations of an event (human, animal and plant life before and after a drought)

·           connect pictures, drawings or artefacts associated with an event to a large timeline

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 3.3

Students use knowledge of people’s contributions in Australia’s past to cooperatively develop visions of preferred futures.

Students know:

 

 

People and contributions

people’s contributions in Australia’s past

contributions e.g.

·            artistic

·            economic

·            educational

·            environmental

·            exploration

·            medical

·            peace

·            philanthropic

·            political

·            religious

·            social/cultural

·            scientific

·            social justice

·            sporting

·            technological

people

selections based on diversity e.g.

·            European/non-European

·            male/female

·            traditional/non-traditional

·            dominant/marginalised

·            young/elderly

·            past, present, future

Students can:

 

 

Participating

use knowledge to cooperatively develop visions of preferred futures

·            work in small groups to create a representation of future inventions that will enhance health standards

·            cooperatively create an annotated diagram of a future place that enhances social harmony

·            with students from other places, create a song or symbol that represents Reconciliation

·            cooperatively investigate an endangered species and individually write a speech about a preferred future for it

·            use someone else’s forecast for the local area and cooperatively design a list of strategies that would create a preferred scenario

·            develop probable and preferred futures

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 3.4

Students organise information about the causes and effects of specific historical events.

Students know:

 

 

Causes and effects

causes and effects of specific historical events

specific historical events e.g.

·            Magna Carta

·            bubonic plagues

·            European circumnavigation of the world

·            settlement/invasion of Australia

·            Eureka Stockade

·            introductions of plant and animal species

·            Australian gold rushes

·            technological inventions (polio vaccine, clipper transport)

·            universal suffrage

·            Eight Hour Day decision

·            world heritage listings in Australia

·            bombing of Hiroshima

·            Franklin-on-Gordon River dispute

causes and effects e.g.

·            direct, indirect

·            human, environmental

·            positive, negative

·            economic, ecological

·            political, social, cultural

Students can:

 

 

Communicating

organise information

·            gather information from a range of sources and organise in a given table, flow chart, or as short answer/long answer notes

·            design a flow chart showing stages of an event from cause/s to effect/s

·            skim text for main ideas and arrange into cause and effect columns in a table (how introduced species have affected Australia’s natural environment)

·            list aspects of an event and circle the cause (Franklin-on-Gordon campaign)

·            scan newspapers for information on a current event and underline a range of effects (how different people are affected by a disaster)

·            design questions for an investigation into why an event happened

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 3.5

Students describe various perspectives based on the experiences of past and present Australians of diverse cultural backgrounds.

Students know:

 

 

Heritage

experiences of past and present Australians

·            social (immigration, seeking refuge, racism, sexism)

·            political (gaining citizenship)

·            cultural (festivals, new ideas from immigrants)

·            work (child labour, forced labour)

·            leisure (entertainment)

·            science and technology (lack of recognition for an idea such as Sister Elizabeth Kenny)

·            environmental (perceived use /misuse of a place)

Australians of diverse cultural backgrounds

·            Anglo ethnicity

·            non-Anglo ethnicity

·            Aborigines

·            Torres Strait Islanders

·            South Sea Islanders

·            non-English-speaking

·            immigrants

·            Irish and Chinese in 1850s, post-World War II Europeans, post-Vietnam War

·            age (youth, the elderly)

·            gender

·            socioeconomic status

·            dominant and marginalised groups

·            groups identified by a cultural interest (the environment, economic activity)

Students can:

 

 

Reflecting

describe various perspectives

·            after an investigation of an event (forced South Sea Islander labour in Queensland), describe the range of perspectives involved via conversation bubbles (an adult and child Islander, politician, cane farmer, manufacturer, trader, emancipist, Indigenous person, an international attitude)

·            gather information about people’s experiences during the gold rushes of the 1850s; identify whose stories are told; and predict the perspectives of those not well represented (children, women, local Aborigines)

·            use a text (Nadia Wheatley’s My Place) to identify children’s perspectives about a place over time

·            gather and group the views of diverse people in the school about a significant day (Easter)