Core Learning Outcome

SRP 4.1

Students outline how Australian industries link to global economic and ecological systems.

Students know:

 

Interactions between ecological and other systems

Australian industries

·          primary (extraction/production of raw materials or resources) e.g.

-    pastoralism

-    agriculture

-    mining

-    forestry

-    fishing

·          secondary (manufacture of primary resources) e.g.

-    steel manufacturing

-    paper production

-    hydro-electricity

·          tertiary (provision of services) e.g.

-    research

-    education

-    health

-    tourism

-    entertainment

-    finance

·          connections within workforce (in primary, secondary and tertiary sectors; local and global settings)

global economic systems

·          trade between countries

·          countries specialising in different industries (Australian mining, Japanese manufacturing)

·          inequality of income and resource distributions in global contexts

global ecological systems

·          land systems

·          atmosphere systems

·          water systems

·          biological systems

Students can:

 

 

Investigating

outline how Australian industries link

·          create a flow chart showing shoe production in a foreign country and sales through Australian retail industry, including economic and ecological impacts (effect of chemicals on production workers, carbon emissions from factories)

·          build a pictorial map of trade routes which shows proximity to transport systems, global resources and industries

·          display products (furniture made from rainforest timber or pictures of products) with evidence of its association with foreign workers and environments

 

Core Learning Outcome

SRP 4.2

Students plan and manage an enterprise that assists a community or international aid project.

Students know:

 

 

Economy and business

enterprise

·          a project involving initiative and some business practices

community and international aid projects

·          projects with a social or environmental motive e.g.

-    Red Cross

-    Community Aid Abroad

-    Catchment Care

-    Smog Busters

-    disaster relief

-    Amnesty International

-    specific community action group (save our banks, airport noise, ratepayers association)

assistance

·          fundraising

·          community or in-the-field service

·          information campaign

·          advocating for change

Students can:

 

 

Creating

plan and manage an enterprise

·          cooperatively and/or personally e.g.

-    develop a vision

-    articulate the vision as an outcome (raise money, raise awareness, offer support, make a product)

-    create strategies to achieve the outcome

-    enact and manage the strategies

-    make decisions

-    plan priorities

-    establish and carry out roles and responsibilities

-    manage time

-    manage finances

·          manage other resources

·          monitor progress and review plans

·          evaluate effectiveness of outcome

 

Core Learning Outcome

SRP 4.3

Students enact democratic processes in familiar settings using knowledge of representative government.

Students know:

 

 

Participating and decision making

familiar settings

·          class

·          school

·          local community

representative government

·          fundamentals e.g.

-    democracy

-    election

-    representative

-    electorate

-    upper and lower houses of parliament

·          institutions e.g.

-    republic

-    constitutional monarchy

-    Commonwealth

·          roles e.g.

-    prime minister

-    minister

-    cabinet

-    premier

-    member of parliament

-    government and opposition

-    governor-general

·          associated concepts e.g.

-    act of parliament

-    bill

-    referendum

-    constitution of Australia and Queensland

-    political party

-    separation of powers

Students can:

 

 

Participating

enact democratic processes

·          organise and participate in democratic processes in familiar settings e.g.

-    simple debate

-    meeting procedure

-    first-past-the-post and preferential elections

-    question and answer forum

-    interviewing political representatives

-    advocating for change at local to global level

·          practise democratic processes e.g.

-    rights and responsibilities

-    freedom of speech

-    valuing opinions

-    accepting popular vote

-    choosing, voting, consensus, cooperation, negotiation

-    fairness

·          peaceful solutions to problems

·          taking responsible action

·          leadership skills

·          reviewing democratic processes

 

Core Learning Outcome

SRP 4.4

Students present comparisons of government and citizenship in pre- and post-Federation Australia.

Students know:

 

 

Citizenship

government in pre- and post-Federation Australia

·          contemporary and past Indigenous law

·          growth of political democracy and development of law since 1788 e.g.

-    penal system

-    colonial system

-    Federation story and federal system

-    developments after Federation (referendums, abolition of Privy Council)

-    future possibilities (republic, continuance of constitutional monarchy)

citizenship in pre and post-Federation Australia

·          groups with and without citizenship over time

·          rights and responsibilities associated with citizenship/non-citizenship over time

·          citizenship campaigns

Students can:

 

 

Communicating

present comparisons

·          use criteria to compare the developmental stages of government e.g.

-    who was a citizen

-    citizen rights

-    who made the law

-    who enforced the law

-    how leaders were appointed

·          present comparative information e.g.

-    table format

-    pictorial flow chart

-    written report

-    timeline

-    dramatic presentation

-    oral presentation

·          Venn diagram (similarities and differences of Australian government or citizenship at different times)

·          forecast based on the present

 

Core Learning Outcome

SRP 4.5

Students classify values that underpin campaigns and organisations associated with human or environmental rights.

Students know:

 

 

Access to power

campaigns

·          past and present

·          local, Australian, international and/or global

·          human or environmental rights (establishment of national parks, Eureka Stockade, Eight Hour Day, free education for all children, Waterwise, anti-whaling, abolition of slavery, Equal Pay for Women, nuclear testing, Aboriginal Freedom Ride, South Sea Islander forced labour in Queensland, native title)

·          campaigners (e.g. Martin Luther King, Vida Goldstein, suffragettes, Bob Brown, Dick Smith, David Suzuki, Pat O’Shane, Emma Miller, Eddie Mabo, Ian McKlellan — Clean-Up Australia, Robert Owen, Judith Wright, Mahatma Ghandi, Chartists, Dame Enid Lyons, Lowitja O’Donaghue)

·          perspectives of groups involved

·          outcomes of campaigns

symbols of campaigns and organisations

·          songs/poems (Imagine, Treaty)

·          sayings (I have a dream, Peace man)

·          logos (WWF, Panda, Amnesty candle)

·          flags (Aboriginal flag)

·          signs (hand sign for peace)

·          artefacts (poppy, paper cranes)

·          promotional people (Princess Diana)

organisations which maintain environmental and human rights

·          courts, trade unions, student groups, community activists, churches, governments, United Nations, Amnesty International

·          treaties, agreements, legislation, policies (e.g. Kyoto Protocol, United Nations Charter of Human Rights, equal opportunity laws)

Students can:

 

 

Reflecting

classify values

·          analyse the operations of different organisations and groups according to broad values e.g.

-    democratic process

-    social justice

-    ecological and economic sustainability

-    peace

·          identify campaigns and/or organisations that aim to improve access to power for particular groups

·          decide how a campaign or organisation has enhanced the power of a group by improving their human or environmental rights