DISCOVERING DEMOCRACY UNIT

QUEENSLAND AND VICTORIAN SOSE OUTCOMES

LINKS TO CURRENT TOPICS/PROGRAMS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Other groups in the community
• Community groups
• Community poster
• Forming the student group
• Seeking approvals

2. How do groups function?

• Looking at other groups
• Developing a Constitution
• The suggested model
• Selecting leaders and committee members
• Decision-making
• Meeting procedures
• Ratifying the Constitution

3. How do groups get things done?

• Working together
• Planning the environmental clean-up
• Using the CD ROMs
• Undertaking the environmental clean-up
• After the clean up

4. How can groups make a difference?

• Evaluating the group activity
• Students evaluating their contribution

5. How and where in the community can people join in?

• Local government services
• Barriers to joining in
• Designing a brochure

TCC 4.3: Students share empathetic responses to contributions that diverse individuals and groups have made to Australian or global history (?)

PS 3.1: Students compare how diverse groups have used and managed natural resources in different environments (?)

PS 3.2: Students create and undertake plans that aim to influence decisions about an element of a place they have investigated

PS 3.3: Students co-operatively collect and analyse data obtained through field study instruments and surveys, to influence the care of a local place (?)

PS 3.5: Students describe the values underlying personal and others’ actions regarding familiar places

PS 4.3: Students participate in a field study to recommend the most effective ways to care for a place (?)

PS 4.5: Students explain whether personal, family and school decisions about resource use and management balance local and global considerations

C&I 3.1: Students identify the contributions of diverse groups, including migrants and indigenous peoples, to the development of their community

C&I 3.3: Students describe personal attitudes, beliefs and behaviours that affect their sense of belonging to a range of groups

SRP 3.3: Students apply the principles of democratic decision-making in co-operative projects

SRP 3.5: Students explain the values associated with familiar rules and laws

SRP 4.3: Students enact democratic processes in familiar settings using knowledge of representative government

SRP 4.5: Students classify values that underpin campaigns and organisations associated with human and environmental rights.(?)

Activity 10: Clubs and organisations

Activity 13: Services in the local area

Activity 14: Identifying groups

Activity 15: Some groups provide services

Activity C: Group preparation

Activity 1: People and rules

Activity 2: The school community

Activity 3: Class committee