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    Democracy Resources

    Looking to support your students to develop their understanding of democracy and the important role they have within it? Here you will find a variety of engaging, interactive resources to support your teaching and learning experiences.


    Democratic Thinking Conversation Starters

    These accessible templates will help get the conversation started with students around key words like democracy, student voice, media literacy and leadership.

    Download the Conversation Starter Collection here (1.2 MB)

    Individual activity sheets from the collection:

    • Democracy (317 KB)
    • Student Voice (356 KB)
    • Leadership (372 KB)
    • Media Literacy (409 KB)
    • Social Justice (250 KB)

    Digital resource for students on chromebooks and laptops here (PowerPoint 3.7 MB)


    Active Voice

    Support students to explore the many ways people can actively participate in our democracy through this engaging activity.

    Active voice image

    Download the Conversation Starter Collection here

    Individual activity sheets from the collection:

    • Protest
    • Petition
    • Voting
    • Write to your Member
    • Media Interview

    Digital resource for students on chromebooks and laptops here (PowerPoint 2.4 MB)


    Critically Exploring Campaigning  

    These resources will help students critically reflect on the information in campaign posters and create their own!

    • Download Campaign Poster Analysis here

    This activity can be used to support students to create their own poster for class / year elections or to highlight an issue they are passionate about.

    • Download Campaign Poster Creator here

    Australian Democracy Facts

    Discover some quick facts about democracy and the importance civic participation.

    Democracy Matters explores some of most significant facts about Australia’s democratic system, from federation to representative democracy and voting.

    Use this resource to start conversations about democracy while challenging students to be active citizens.

    Downloadable resources

    • Democracy Matters video
    • Democracy Matters A5 booklet (349 KB)
    • Democracy Matters A4 poster (328 KB)

    Democracy Poster - Analysis

    Use this poster image to engage your students in many democratic concepts and themes in an easy and approachable way.  This resource, and associated activities, works well for students both at the beginning of their learning of democracy, and as a summative tool.

    Downloadable resources

    • Democracy Poster [PDF, 377KB]
    • Democracy Poster - Analysis [PDF, 2.2MB]
    • Democracy Hive activity [PDF, 5.7MB]

    Australia's Democratic History

    Delve into Australia’s democratic history as you discover how the Australian democracy has been defined by historical ideas and events.

    Exploring Democracy takes you on a virtual journey through history to explore facts about democracy and the people and places that shaped it.

    There are two aspects of Exploring Democracy:

    • The interactive Timeline which marks key milestones in Australia’s Democracy;
    • The biographies of significant individuals who participated in and contributed to our democracy.

    *Australian Curriculum v9 – Curriculum Learning Areas

    HASSCivics and CitizenshipHistory

    Years

    5-67-89-1011-12

    Themes

    Indigenous AustraliaAustralian historyDemocracy in AustraliaPolitical participationDemocracyCivics and CitizenshipAustralian Federal politics

    Useful resources

    Exploring democracy website

    Australian Curriculum learning areas

    A history of Old Parliament House (6MB PDF)

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