Teacher Resources Documents

This classroom investigation of SIDNEY KIDMAN for UPPER PRIMARY  provides a structured set of evidence and information that allows students to explore his life, and his influence on the development of Australia.  It also involves students in the development and exercise of the questioning and researching skills required at this level – finding out by working out.

One and Free: How Australia was Made is a short guide to the ten most significant events and achievements that make us proud to be Australian. Australia has always been stronger when we as a community are united around our shared values of freedom, democracy, and egalitarianism.

Investigating Pioneers Who Made Australia is a series of evidence-based exploration and investigation of some significant Australians from the past, whose often-herculean efforts shaped the Australian identity, and helped make the nation what it is today. These units allow students to consider what makes a pioneer, and to explore each candidate’s character and contributions to our foundations and then to ultimately decide whether the nominee qualifies for a place in the ‘hall of fame’. Meet Caroline Chisholm.

Learn about language methods of persuasion, identify these methods and apply this knowledge. For Year 10 English studies.

This unit has been developed to help students understand the issues, and develop a knowledge of both the arguments for and against the proposal to change the Constitution and create an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander only Voice.

In this unit, students will explore how the British legal system – part of Australia’s British and Western Civilisation heritage – was established in Australia, through five distinct investigations based on a key inquiry question. This unit is suitable for both Year 8 Civics and Citizenship and Year 9 Australian History.