Core Learning Outcome

TCC 4.1

Students use primary sources to investigate situations before and after a change in Australian or global settings.

Students know:

 

 

 

Evidence over time

 

primary sources

·          sources which provide original accounts e.g.

-          artefacts

-          photographs

-          oral histories

-          maps

-          diary extracts

-          birth certificates

-          middens

-          reproductions of primary sources when originals are not available

situations before and after a change in Australian settings

·          1967 Referendum on Aboriginal Citizenship

·          1901 Pacific Island Labourers Act

·          environments before and after mining, gold rushes, drought

·          Eight Hour Day Movement

·          Federation

·          beginning of railways or radio

·          development of polio vaccine

situations before and after a change in global settings

·          wars

·          development of vaccines (polio, measles)

·          inventions (synthetic fibres, microchip)

·          heritage listing of wilderness areas

·          nations before and after colonisation

Students can:

 

 

 

Investigating

use primary sources to investigate

·          use primary sources in relevant stages of an inquiry e.g.

-          identify an issue (media stories of the conflict in East Timor)

-          locate appropriate primary sources (interview of Australian war veteran, personal Timorese stories via Internet sites, maps of colonial Timor or Indonesia, Indonesian newspapers)

-          evaluate evidence (where can a range of Indonesian perspectives be sourced?)

-          synthesise and report conclusions (a written report or oral argument with referenced sources?)

·          locate relevant primary sources to make own interpretation of a situation (interview an elderly woman about her work roles before, during and after World War II)

·          use primary sources to make interpretations about particular times (photographs of farm labour and technology before and after Pacific Islander Labourers Act 1901)

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 4.2

Students illustrate the influence of global trends on the beliefs and values of different groups.

Students know:

 

 

Changes and continuities

influence of global trends on the beliefs and values of different groups

·          global trends e.g.

-          colonisation (European expansion into Asia)

-          religious expansion (Christianity into North America, Buddhism in Asia)

-          development of global media (Internet)

-          technological revolutions (the printing press, the microchip)

-          trade (movement from national to multinational companies)

-          immigration (post-World War II European migration to Australia, Irish potato famine)

·          values and beliefs influenced by global trends e.g.

-          family structure (the shift from extended to nuclear)

-          materialism and consumerism (manufacture of cheap products by underpaid, underage workers)

-          conservation of the natural environment (international actions of World Wildlife Fund)

-          communal land ownership (diminishing Indigenous land ownership rights in colonial Australia)

-          ethnic identity (Indonesian attempts to moderate the influence of Western culture)

-          cultural diversity (changes and continuities in Australia, Brazil and former Yugoslavia)

Students can:

 

 

Creating

illustrate the influence of global trends

·          create a labelled flow chart of the effects of the printing press on the changing power of European peasants and the Church

·          create a timeline showing events caused by Australian colonisation of Indigenous people and add a futures perspective

·          write a short essay about changing attitudes towards cultural diversity in Australia since World War II based on stories from older people

·          develop a history book of the future about the influence of a global trend on the beliefs of a group

·          map or graph a situation before and after a change, describing the influences in the title (Christianity in North America in 1500, 1700 and 2000; multinational companies in Australia in early and late 1900s)

·          outline reasons for people’s use of Eastern medicine

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 4.3

Students share empathetic responses to contributions that diverse individuals and groups have made to Australian or global history.

Students know:

 

 

People and contributions

contributions to Australian or global history

·          contributions e.g.

-          artistic

-          economic

-          educational

-          environmental

-          exploration

-          medical

-          peace

-          philanthropic

-          political

-          religious

-          social/cultural

-          scientific

-          social justice

-          sporting

-          technological

·          difference between empathy/sympathy

diverse individuals and groups from Australian and global history

·          selections based on diversity e.g.

-          European/non-European

-          male/female

-          traditional/non-traditional

-          dominant/marginalised

-          young/elderly

-          past, present, future

·          groups (Aboriginal Freedom Riders, Italian sugarcane farmers, civil rights groups, Snowy Mountains Scheme workers, Women’s Land Army, RSL, ACTU, CWA, CSIRO, farming coops, Queensland Mining Council)

·          organisations (Greenpeace, United Nations’ agencies, World Bank, World Trade Organisation, International Monetary Fund, WWF, Amnesty International)

Students can:

 

 

Participating

share empathetic responses

·          present an oral presentation describing the work of an individual or organisation, how that work has contributed to a particular group and why he/she values that

·          pairs or trios interchange roles in a debate about past events (soldier and pacifist)

·          locate an issue faced by an individual or organisation and explain the perspective of various people involved (Greenpeace and Inuits over sealing)

·          participate in a simple debate about an issue (class divides in half then each individual offers an argument for their side)

·          create a collage depicting how class members feel about a contributing group of the past

·          artistically express empathy for a self-nominated group or individual

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 4.4

Students critique information sources to show the positive and negative effects of a change or continuity on different groups.

Students know:

 

 

Causes and effects

different groups

·          marginalised groups

·          dominant groups

·          Indigenous groups

·          gendered groups

·          socioeconomic groups

positive and negative effects of a change or continuity on different groups

·          positive effects of change or continuity e.g.

-          greater access to technology

-          economic power

-          social harmony

-          political power

-          social position and power

-          justice, equality and equity

-          self-determination and sovereignty

·          negative effects of change or continuity e.g.

-          conflict

-          loss of culture

-          loss of religion, culture, language

-          disempowerment

-          dispossession of land

-          injustice and inequality

-          unequal distribution of economic power

-          loss of identity

information sources

·          primary and secondary sources

·          electronic sources

·          stories from different groups

·          statistics, maps

·          histories

·          media reports

·          film and documentaries

·          music, poetry, literature

·          interviews, observations

Students can:

 

 

Communicating

critique information sources to show positive and negative effects

·          develop and present a critique e.g.

-          analyse underlying values

-          speculate on stereotyping, silent voices and completeness associated with sources

-          construct explanations

-          present critique in written or non-written formats

·          role-play a person associated with a particular change (a forestry decision, and explain how the media has or has not represented that point of view)

·          conduct an information search about an issue (China in Tibet) and conclude whose interests appear to be most represented and why

·          explain how a statistical representation can manipulate a particular point of view (how representative are the axes on a graph? what proportion is represented and how?)

 

Core Learning Outcome

TCC 4.5

Students review and interpret heritages from diverse perspectives to create a preferred future scenario about a global issue.

Students know:

 

 

Heritage

heritages from diverse perspectives

·          national

·          cultural

·          social class

·          political

·          gender

·          ideological

·          religious

·          economic

·          environmental

·          dominant

·          marginalised

·          age

global issues

·          human and civil rights issues (self-determination, access to democracy, freedom from torture)

·          economic issues (right to work, right to own property, creating employment, cheap labour)

·          environmental issues (greenhouse/global warming, whaling, endangered species)

·          health issues (genetically modified food, advances in medicine and treatment)

·          cultural issues (loss of ability to practise culture due to domination by another, for example Tibet)

·          political (right to freedom of speech)

Students can:

 

 

Reflecting

review and interpret heritages to create a preferred future scenario

·          review a range of given perspectives about a particular heritage (a constitutional monarchy) interpret how these perspectives evolved and explain a preferred future situation

·          reconsider the heritage of a particular place (Antarctica, the Amazon Rainforest) based on its value to different groups, and describe a preferred future

·          create two futures timelines which review and forecast the heritage of a people from the perspectives of two groups (past and future Tibetan culture from various Tibetan, Chinese or Western perspectives)

·          draw and electronically label a future scene that revolves around a current global issue

·          compare own life with a working child in an underdeveloped economy, identify heritages and reasons for this difference and describe a preferred future for both people