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Stage 4

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Australia: Making a nation – from Federation to WWI (1889 – c. 1919)

Historical context: Europe’s need for more resources as a result of the Industrial Revolution led to the movement of peoples around the globe. This contributed to the making of the modern world as we know it. During this period in history Australia became a Federation and democracy was challenged with the outbreak of WWI.

This focus area aligns with:

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Content in Working with historical concepts and skills outlines how historical concepts and skills are to be integrated with all other content in this focus area as part of the process of historical inquiry.

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Working with historical concepts and skills
  • Use relevant historical concepts and skills

  • Engage in the historical inquiry process

  • Communicate ideas about the making of the nation through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts

Background, origins and connections to Australia: making a nation – from Federation to WWI
  • Groups to which students and their families belong

  • Shared, similar and differing values of a range of groups to which students belong

  • Ways people express belonging to a particular group

  • Symbols and celebrations that represent love of and belonging to Australia

  • Personal or local stories related to Australia at war

  • The geographical location of the First World War (WWI)

Significant groups, individuals, ideas, beliefs, practices or events in Australia: making a nation – from Federation to WWI
  • Aspects of daily living or working conditions in Australia at the time of Federation, including those of women

  • A key moment(s), achievement(s) or turning point(s) leading to Federation

  • Reasons for Federation

  • Key roles and responsibilities for citizens in a democracy, including voting in elections

  • Essential features of the Australian Constitution

  • Aspects of the daily life and living conditions of military leaders, soldiers, nurses in the field, or women on the home front, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

  • Significant places where Australians fought in WWI

  • Uniforms, weaponry and transport used by Australian troops in WWI

  • Contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, women and migrants to making Australia a nation

Impact and legacies of Australia: making a nation – from Federation to WWI
  • The ongoing legacy of ONE significant person

  • How memorials, remembrances and institutions in Australia today reflect WWI

  • The impact of Federation or WWI on different groups in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

  • Perspectives on the impacts of Federation or WWI

  • Democratic processes at school and/or in the community

  • Ways to be an active member of the community

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