A student	Learns to	Learns about	Reflects on	Overview, resources, assessment
Skills	Use complex terms and concepts as they apply to historical issues and forces Use knowledge or word origins to define specialised and abstract historical terms Describe how language and graphic features influence how a source is interpreted Identify and contrast different accounts of the same events or issue and give possible explanations	Terms and concepts Depression; Popular culture; Spatial inequality The Depression Popular culture  Architectural innovation  Urban development	Aspects of active and informed citizenship   Ecological sustainability	Overview Students are taken on a guided tour of the Ritz Theatre and the Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator. In exploring these heritage places they consider past events, lifestyles and continuity and change over time. Resources, suggested strategies Maps Castlecrag and Haven Estates, 1934 Griffin’s final plan for Canberra, 1918 Video Haven Amphitheatre at Castlecrag Photography Willoughby Incinerator, 1930s constructing the Willoughby incinerator Willoughby Incinerator site, 1934 Willoughby Incinerator interior, 1934 King’s Theatre, Powerhouse Museum Griffin’s Pyrmont Incinerator Ritz Theatre: images and interpretations Griffin’s work: images and interpretations explore the sites: place investigations Texts Bolot’s contribution to cinema in Australia Ryde’s cinemas of the 20s and 30s chronology of the Ritz Theatre testing the incinerator, 1934 fate of the Pyrmont Incinerator popular dancing at the Trocadero uptake of Art Deco in 1930s Sydney Griffin’s ideas on architecture and civilisation Griffin legacy at Castlecrag Greater Sydney Development Association Newspaper case for restoring the Willoughby Incinerator conserving the Glebe Incinerator 50th birthday of the Randwick Ritz cinema history at the Ritz Theatre Assessment Activities formative
Targeted 5.14 Explains the meaning, purpose and context of historical sources in order to deduce their usefulness for the purposes of an inquiry
Knowledge and Understanding
Targeted 5.8 Compares and contrasts the social and cultural experiences of different people at various times
Values and Attitudes
Targeted Develops an appreciation of environments and a sense of responsibility for their future

Defence and Security — history

A student	Learns to	Learns about	Reflects on	Overview, resources, assessment
Skills	Ask questions to explain the meaning, purpose and context of historical sources Make deductions about the usefulness of sources for the purpose of a specific historical inquiry Plan historical research to suit the purpose of a task, with limited guidance Identify and extract relevant and useful information from increasingly challenging sources Use strategies to organise information from a range of different sources for different purposes Make judgements about the usefulness of information	Terms and concepts Conscription; Censorship; Relations with the USA and England   Defence of Australia (including occupation of the built environment)   Aspects of the homefront (including experiences in POW camps)	Aspects of active and informed citizenship Aspects of a just society Intercultural understanding	Overview Wartime encounters at the Grace Building and at Cowra POW Camp form the basis of a study into the ways history is recorded and interpreted. Students use different sources to view homefront incidents from different perspectives. Research activity: Resources, suggested strategies Maps Cowra Prisoner of War Camp Audio Prime Minister Curtin Photography Grace Building: images and interpretations explore the sites: place investigations aerial photograph of Cowra POW Camp Site Texts history and heritage at Cowra Italian internment during World War II before the Cowra Breakout events on the night of The Cowra Breakout after the Cowra Breakout chronology of the Grace Building timeline of Japanese expansion tenants of the Grace Building ‘aliens’ and military intelligence First-hand account Wal McKenzie’s memories of the Breakout Newspaper magazine cover featuring General MacArthur Interview oral histories of the Cowra Breakout Assessment Activities formative summative
Targeted 5.17 Defines the purpose of a historical investigation and plans and conducts appropriate research,, with some independence
Knowledge and Understanding
Targeted 5.6 Explains political events and evaluates their impact on civic life in Australia
Values and Attitudes
Targeted Develops skills to participate in society in an informed way as individuals or members of groups

Advancing economically — history

 

A student	Learns to	Learns about	Reflects on	Overview, resources, assessment
Skills	Plan historical research to suit the purpose of a task with limited guidance Locate historical information from a wide variety of written, oral, audio-visual and multimedia resources Use strategies to organise information from a range of different sources for different purposes Make judgements about the usefulness of materials Select a form of communication appropriate to purpose and audience Evaluate the effectiveness of own and others communication with greater autonomy	Terms and concepts Depression; Anti-communism; Conservation; Preservation The Depression   Workers’ rights (including trade unions and communism)   Industrial development (including technological innovation)   Environmental issues	Aspects of active and informed citizenship Aspects of a just society Ecological sustainability	Overview Students use historical evidence linked to the industrial sites of Richmond Main Colliery and Glennifer Brae to explore the social and political implications of workers’ activism. Action-based research: Resources, suggested strategies Maps Richmond Main Colliery Audio Phil Johnston, Industrial Blacksmith Mick Frame, former worker Richmond Main Harry Cotteril, miner, union representative Photography archival image of Richmond Main explore the sites: place investigations Cartoon demands and tensions on the coalfields Texts workers’ prayer, 1930s time lost at Richmond Main, 1945 ‘miners take the rap’ influence of trade unions in the 20s and 30s Newspaper Miners’ Federation paper ‘Common Cause’ Assessment Activities formative summative
Targeted 5.19 Creates well-structured texts using evidence to describe, recount, explain, argue, challenge and discuss increasingly complex problems and issues
Knowledge and Understanding
Targeted 5.12 Accounts for how and why the rights and freedoms of various groups in Australian society have changed
Values and Attitudes
Targeted Develops concerns for the welfare, rights and dignity of all people

  

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