People Power and Making Change

Students participating in the Democracy Trail during People Power and Making Change

Bring Australia’s democratic history to life through an inquiry-based museum experience that encourages young people to explore active citizenship and learn how they can have their voices heard.

During People Power and Making Change students will explore the stories of significant changes in Australia’s history and discuss how change is made in our democracy.

Students will work collaboratively in our exhibition to learn about important people and objects from Federation to today and investigate their continued impact on our democracy.

Students will experience history where it happened by sitting in one of our historic chambers of parliament and unpack parliamentary roles and procedure to discuss how they can make change on issues that are important to them.

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*Australian Curriculum V8.3 – Curriculum Learning Areas

HASS

Year 5

Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges (ACHASSI094)
Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary and secondary sources (ACHASSI095)
Examine primary and secondary sources to determine their origin and purpose (ACHASSI098)
Examine different viewpoints on actions, events, issues and phenomena in the past and present (ACHASSI099)
Evaluate evidence to draw conclusions (ACHASSI101)
Use criteria to make decisions and judgements and consider advantages and disadvantages of preferring one decision over others (ACHASSI103)

Year 6

Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges (ACHASSI122)
Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary and secondary sources (ACHASSI123)
Examine primary and secondary sources to determine their origin and purpose (ACHASSI126)
Examine different viewpoints on actions, events, issues and phenomena in the past and present (ACHASSI127)
Evaluate evidence to draw conclusions (ACHASSI129)
Use criteria to make decisions and judgements and consider advantages and disadvantages of preferring one decision over others (ACHASSI131)
Experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship, including the status and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, migrants, women and children (ACHASSK135)
The contribution of individuals and groups to the development of Australian society since Federation (ACHASSK137)

Year 7

Construct significant questions and propositions to guide investigations about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges (ACHASSI152)
Sequence information about events, developments, periods and phenomena using a variety of discipline-appropriate formats and conventions including chronological frameworks that use dating conventions (ACHASSI155)
Examine primary and secondary sources to determine their origin, purpose and reliability (ACHASSI156)
Analyse primary and secondary sources to identify values and perspectives on people, actions, events, issues and phenomena, past and present (ACHASSI157)
Evaluate and synthesise evidence to draw conclusions (ACHASSI159)

Civics and citizenship

Year 7

The key features of government under the Australian Constitution with a focus on: the separation of powers, the roles of the Executive, the Houses of Parliament, and the division of powers (ACHCK048)
The process for constitutional change through a referendum (ACHCK049)
How values, including freedom, respect, inclusion, civility, responsibility, compassion, equality and a ‘fair go’, can promote cohesion within Australian society (ACHCK052)
How groups, such as religious and cultural groups, express their particular identities; and how this influences their perceptions of others and vice versa (ACHCK053)
Develop a range of questions to investigate Australia's political and legal systems (ACHCS054)
Critically analyse information and ideas from a range of sources in relation to civics and citizenship topics and issues (ACHCS056)
Appreciate multiple perspectives and use strategies to mediate differences (ACHCS057)
Use democratic processes to reach consensus on a course of action relating to a civics or citizenship issue and plan for that action (ACHCS058)
Reflect on their role as a citizen in Australia’s democracy (ACHCS060)

History

Year 7

Sequence historical events, developments and periods (ACHHS205)
Use historical terms and concepts (ACHHS206)
Identify a range of questions about the past to inform a historical inquiry (ACHHS207)
Identify the origin and purpose of primary and secondary sources (ACHHS209)
Locate, compare, select and use information from a range of sources as evidence (ACHHS210)
Draw conclusions about the usefulness of sources (ACHHS211)
Identify and describe points of view, attitudes and values in primary and secondary sources (ACHHS212)

English

Year 5

Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic as well as the degree of formality (ACELA1504)
Show how ideas and points of view in texts are conveyed through the use of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, objective and subjective language, and that these can change according to context (ACELY1698)
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703)

Year 6

Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase (ACELA1516)
Understand the uses of objective and subjective language and bias (ACELA1517)
Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion (ACELA1525)
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (ACELY1713)
Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers (ACELY1801)

Year 7

Understand how accents, styles of speech and idioms express and create personal and social identities (ACELA1529)
Analyse how point of view is generated in visual texts by means of choices, for example gaze, angle and social distance (ACELA1764)
Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose (ACELY1721)
Use prior knowledge and text processing strategies to interpret a range of types of texts (ACELY1722)