Multicultural Stories: Introduction
Key learning area: Studies of Society and Environment
Year level: Middle Secondary
Lesson duration: 5 hours (4 lessons)
Unit topic: Multicultural stories
Lesson topic: Understanding migration experiences
Lesson's overal aim
Students will undertake a study of migrant stories as they explore multicultural Australia. They will identify the reason/s why people left their homelands, explore the social, cultural, economic and/or political contribution/s migrants have made to Australia and abroad and consider the possible motivations for those contributions. Students will then consider these contributions and motivations in light of the history of Australia’s immigration and multicultural policies.
Intended student learning objectives/outcomes
Knowledge:
- Examine the development of multiculturalism in Australia.
- Explore ways in which government policies on immigration have changed over time.
Skills
- Research
- Hypothesising
- Evaluation
Values
- Doing your best
- Fair go
- Integrity
- Respect
- Understanding, tolerance and inclusion
Resources:
- Civics and Citizenship website: Biography of Jimmy Pham
- New homes (TLF-Learning object L678)
- Fiona Chiu: Chinese family tree (TLF-Learning object L614)
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Immigration stories
- Museum Victoria, Immigration Museum
- Randwick City Council, Migrant Story project
- Migration Heritage Centre (NSW), Belongings: Post World War II Migration Memories and Journeys
- Department of Immigration, Success Stories of Australian Migration
- Australian Biography
- Dictionary of Australian Biography (1949)
- Australian Story
- Famous Australians
- Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
- Making Multicultural Australia
- Racism: No way, History of Australia's development as a culturally diverse nation
- Feedback sandwich
- Two-ring Venn diagram
- Three-ring Venn diagram
Note to teachers
Access to the Le@rning Federation’s digital content is through your educational body’s licensing agreement with Curriculum Corporation.
Please be aware that the digital resources may contain references to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have passed away. This may cause distress to some Indigenous students.
