Australians – Yesterday and today
Introduction
Victorian Essential Learning Standards
Teaching, learning and assessment activities
1: Introduction to immigration
2: Framing the research
3: Research
4: Developing a written presentation
5: Reflection on teamwork
Assessment
Unit resources
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Australians – Yesterday and Today – Level 6 Sample Unit

Resources

Websites

Use this resource list as a beginning to help you locate differing views of immigrations from individuals and/ or families.

Stories of Migration

Australian centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
immigration stories - digital storytelling (www.acmi.net.au/dst_videos_immigration.htm)

Live in Melbourne, Migrant Stories (www.liveinvictoria.vic.gov.au/ViewPage.action?contentId=-1&languageId=1&siteNodeId=372)

Randwick City Council, Migrant Story project (http://www.randwick.nsw.gov.au/A_sense_of_community/Library/Multicultural_services/Migrant_story/index.aspx)

Migrational Heritage Centre NSW, Belongings: post World War 11 migration memories and journeys, (www.belongings.com.au)

Deaprtment of Immigration, Success Stories of Australian Migration (www.immi.gov.au/media/success_stories/index.htm)

Investigating migration to Australia

Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Fact sheets (www.immi.gov.au/media/index.htm)
(The fact sheets will provide a basic overview of the history of migration, circumstances behind waves of migration to Australia and information about Australia’s current immigration program.)

Making Multicultural Australia (www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au)
(Contains primary source materials on Australian immigration including videos, cartoons and parliamentary speeches)

Populate or perish (http://john.curtin.edu.au/1940s/populate/index.html)

Refugee Council of Australia (www.refugeecouncil.org.au/current/settlement.html)

National Archives of Australia, (Virtual reading room). VRROOM (http://vrroom.naa.gov.au/)
(Use search facilities to find information and photographs about immigration.)

Immigration Museum Victoria
Immigration to Victoria – a timeline and other resources (http://museumvictoria.com.au/DiscoveryCentre/Websites-Mini/Immigration-Timeline)

United Nations Cyberschoolbus (www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus)
(Use Country at a Glance section to find out about the background to source countries for refugees and use the search facility to find out about policy for refugees.)

Teacher materials

Teaching, learning and assessment advice
This resource provides information about teaching, learning and assessment strategies referred to in this unit.

Reflection sheet (Doc - 80KB)

Student materials

Main Countries of Birth of the Population: 1901–2005 handout (Doc - 109KB)

Teamwork log (Doc - 86KB)

Australians - Yesterday and today Research task sheet (Doc - 60KB)


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