AC9HS6K03 Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

the motivation of people migrating to Australia since Federation and throughout the 20th century, their stories and effects on Australian society, including migrants from the Asia region

Elaborations

• 1 exploring push and pull factors that have contributed to people migrating to Australia, including economic factors, conflict and seeking political refuge, and inquiring into why particular 20th century migrant groups came to Australia; for example, migrants from Europe following the Second World War, migrants from South-East Asia due to conflict, the Assisted Passage Migration scheme
• 2 exploring individual narratives, using primary sources such as letters, documents and historical objects to interview and record an oral history of, for example, migration related to students’ own family histories, and then outlining the journey and circumstances of arrival based on the sources, using approaches such as drama or digital presentations.
• 3 describing cultural practices related to family life, beliefs and customs of newly arrived migrant groups and exploring how these practices changed the communities in which they settled within Australia
• 4 examining population data that show the places of birth of Australia’s people at one or more points of time in the past and today
• 5 investigating the role of specific cultural groups in Australia’s economic and social development in, for example, the cattle industry, the Snowy Mountains Scheme and the pearling industry
• 6 considering the contributions to Australia of notable Australians who were migrants or from migrant families, across a range of fields; for example, Hieu Van Le (the 35th Governor of South Australia), Sir Frank Lowy, Marita Cheng, Dame Marie Bashir

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