DISCOVERING DEMOCRACY UNIT

QUEENSLAND AND VICTORIAN SOSE OUTCOMES

LINKS TO CURRENT TOPICS/PROGRAMS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• The nature of democracy
• Making a decision

2. How and why was democracy lost in Germany in 1933?

• Research tack
• Voting patterns
• The Nazi party
• Nazi policies
• Interpreting election posters
• Who voted for the Nazis?
• Cartoon
• Democracy destroyed
• Democracy seized or given?

3. Which people resisted the Nazis?

• Simulation: ‘Resistance’

4. What are the key features of a democracy and how did the Nazis take them away? How is democracy in Australia protected?

• Assessment task
• Creating families
• Effect of policy on family members’ lives
• Effects of policies on democracy
• Democratic principles in Australia
• Protecting democracy in Australia

TCC 5.1: Students use primary and secondary evidence to identify the development of ideas from ancient to modern times

TCC 6.1: Students evaluate evidence from the past to demonstrate how such accounts reflect the culture in which they were constructed

TCC 6.5: Students develop criteria-based judgments about the ethical behaviour of people in the past

C&I 5.4:Students describe how governments have caused changes to cultural groups

C&I 5.5: Students express how dominant and marginalised identities are constructed by influences including the media

C&I 6.1: Students analyse the ways in which various societies inhibit or promote cultural diversity

C&I 6.4: Students describe specific instances of cultural change resulting from government legislation or policies that have impacted on other cultural groups

SRP 6.4:Students communicate informed interpretations to suggest reforms to an economic, political or legal system

SRP 6.5: Students apply understandings of social justice and democratic process to suggest ways of improving access to economic, political and legal power

• Identify key features of Australia’s political system at local ,state and federal levels
• Identify and trace the history of the key values of representative democracy, including participation, representation, rights and responsibilities

Power, leadership, ethical actions.

Stories of Democracy CD ROM – students are provided with lists of rights and a short history of rights being lost by Article 48. The game involves matching ‘rights’ and ‘actions taking away rights’.