| DISCOVERING
DEMOCRACY UNIT
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QUEENSLAND
AND VICTORIAN SOSE OUTCOMES
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LINKS TO
CURRENT TOPICS/PROGRAMS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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| Citizens and
Public Life People Power Upper Primary
- How did the Freedom Riders escalate the
campaign for justice for Aboriginal
people?
- The Freedom Ride
- Make your own Freedom Ride video
- The Freedom Riders actions
- The role of the media in the Freedom ride
- Rounding up
2. How did groups of Australian workers
bring about improvements in their working
conditions?
- Tuning in
- Introduction to the Eight Hour Day
Movement
- The Eight Hour Day men
- Eight Hour day role-plays
- A working man in parliament
- Celebrating the Eight Hour Day movement
- Rounding up
3. What have Equal Pay campaigners done to
remove some of the discrimination against women
in employment?
- Tuning in
- Unequal pay for men and women
- Breadwinners and dependents
- Stories from the Equal Pay for Women
movement
- Timeline for the Equal Pay for Women
campaign
- Rounding up
4. In what ways can popular movements
achieve change?
- Strategies
- Choosing the best people
power strategy
- Consequences
- The power of people power
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TCC
3..2: Students create sequences and timelines
that summarise sets of events about specific
Australian changes and continuities
TCC 3.3: Students use knowledge of
peoples contributions in Australias
past to cooperatively develop visions of
preferred futures
TCC 3.4: Students organise information about
the causes and effects of specific historical
events
TCC 4.3: Students share empathetic responses
to contributions that diverse individuals and
groups have made to Australian or global history
C&I 3.1: Students identify the
contributions of diverse groups, including
migrants and indigenous peoples, to the
development of their community
C&I 3.5: Students explain changing
attitudes, at different times, towards gender,
race, ethnicity or socioeconomic identities
C&I 4.2: Students design an ethical code
of personal behaviour based on responses to their
perceptions of particular aspects of cultural
groups (?)
C&I 4.3: Students debate how media images
concerning gender, age, and ethnicity reflect
aspects of groups to which they belong
SRP 3.5: Students explain the values
associated with familiar rules and laws
SRP 4.5: Students classify values that
underpin campaigns and organisations associated
with human and environmental rights
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YEAR 7: RESPONSIBLE
PARTICIPATION:
Activity 3: Rights and
responsibilities
Activity 6: Lobby groups
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