Stage 3, Term 3
Human Society & Its Environment
Democracy:
Changes & Responsibility
from Past to Present
Name:______
Unit Outcomes / CCS3.2 Explains the development of the principles of Australian democracy.SSS3.8 Explains the structures, roles, responsibilities and decision-making processes of State and federal governments and explains why Australians value fairness and socially just principles.
The Information Process
The Information Process will help you organise and reflect on the compulsory and choice tasks you will be working on this term.
There are five steps in the Information Process.
DEFINEWhat is the topic?
What are you going to research?
What is the task asking me to do? /
LOCATE
Where can you find the information?
There are many different sources of information
to choose from. /
SELECT
What is the information that I need?
What are the key words for this idea?
How can I put this idea into my own words?
Select the important ideas from the sources you are using. /
ORGANISE
What is the best way to use my time?
How will I organise the information I have found?
Have I recorded in my reflection wiki? /
PRESENT
How will my research be presented?
What is the best way to present my work
to a group of people or individuals?
What are the products I will be presenting?
Presentation is a very important part
of the information process. This shows what you
have learnt through your research. /
Defining: What is the topic we are learning about?
In HSIE this term, I will be learning about: ______
______
Defining the Tasks
Over the next eight weeks you need to complete Compulsory tasks and Choice tasks.
Compulsory Tasks
These tasks are ones set by the teacher. These tasks must be completed. These tasks will help you get a basic knowledge of the topic. One Compulsory task is the Information Tables. Information Tables are questions. Some questions can be answered directly in the table; others will need to be completed on separate pieces of paper.
Choice Tasks
These tasks are designed by you. To design these tasks you will use a “Bloom’s Wheel” that will help you come up with different ideas. Your display can include:
· 3D models· Science experiments
· Find-a-Words
· Wiki
· Movie / · Posters
· Question Box
· PowerPoint Presentation
· Blog
· Prezzi
Learning and Reflecting Log
At the beginning of each research session you will need to define what you will be working on. This will help you with staying on track. You will record in your log what task/s you will be working in during the session. You may decide on what form your log takes. The log will be checked by your teacher.
Your folder is due at the end of week 10.
Organising Your Presentation
Things to include in your folder: The Compulsory tasks.
Date and Tickupon completion / Compulsory Tasks
Task 1: Title Page
Design a title page showing the topic you are researching.
Task 2: Introduction
Write an introduction to the topic (three to four paragraphs)
Include:
· What are you learning about in this topic? (Definition of topic, general facts, issues related to the topic)
· Why do you think it is an important topic to learn about?
· Include quotes from books or the Internet
See separate table / Task 3: Information Tables
Fill in all the information tables relating to “The History of Democracy.” (See contract booklet)
Task 4: Web Page – Australian Democracy Today
Create a web page about the Australian Democratic System. Your web page should include some of the information listed below. Include some of the research from your Information Table (Australian Democracy Today) on your web page.
· The three levels of government and what they are in charge of.
· The people leading at each level of government. (Include the names of politicians and political parties).
· Voting
Use books and the Internet to collect the information you need.
A rubric will be used to assess your web page.
Task 5: Wiki Discussion
You required to start a wiki discussion related to democracy and to comment on two other student’s wiki discussions.
Topic:
· Should the legal voting age be sixteen rather than eighteen?
· Should Australia become a republic?
Remember to discuss reasons for and against.
Task 6: Information Report
Historic Events and People in Democracy
Select ONE of the following events to research and fill in the proforma.
Women’s Suffrage
Aboriginal exclusion
The 1967 Referendum
OR
Select ONE of the following people to research.
King John and the Magna Carta
Sir Edmund Barton
Sir Henry Parkes
Other
Task 7: Glossary
Compile a glossary of terms related to the topic you are researching.
Task 8: Bibliography
Task 9: Conclusion
Write a conclusion to the topic. (three or four paragraphs)
Put this after all your completed tasks.
Include:
· What new things did you learn?
· Has this topic changed the way you think about democracy? How?
· Was it an interesting topic to learn about? Why?
Presentation Day: this is when you will present your choice tasks and your understanding.
Presentation Day will be on Friday ______
You may use props and costumes to aid in your presentation.
Information Table / Completed
Definition of Democracy
What was Aboriginal society like before 1788?
What did Aboriginal government take care of?
What is The Dreaming and how was it an important part of Aboriginal government?
Were the people of NSW able to make their own laws or elect their own leaders in the early days of the colony? Why not?
What important role was created in 1820? What was this person’s role?
Who was able to vote in 1840 and in 1850?
What is the Eureka Stockade? Why was the Eureka Stockade an important event?
What issues did women and Indigenous Australians have in the past?
Definition of Federation
Who were the people responsible for the Federation of Australia?
Who were the fathers of Federation?
When did Federation occur?
What is ‘The Constitution’?
Why was Federation important?
List the arguments FOR Federation
List the arguments AGAINST Federation
Australian Government Today
Learning and Reflection Log
This log must be filled out at the beginning and at the end of each week and signed by your teacher.
Week / Plan
What am I going to work on this week? / Reflecting on learning/effort
What did I achieve/learn?
What new skills did I learn?
What might I do differently next time? / Teacher’s signature
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1. Definition of Democracy
Australia is governed using a democratic system. A democracy is when people have a say in what happens in their country. Citizens aged eighteen years and over vote for politicians to run the country and make decisions for them. The word democracy comes from Ancient Greece and can be broken up into two parts. ‘Demo’ means people and ‘cracy’ means rule of government.
Australia Before 1788
Aboriginal Society and Government
2. What was Aboriginal society like before 1788? Include information about family life.
3. What did Aboriginal government take care of?
4. What is The Dreaming and how was it an important part of Aboriginal government?
Early Colonial Government
How was Australia governed BEFORE Federation?
5. Were the people of NSW able to make their own laws or elect their own leaders in the early days of the colony?
Why not?
6. What important role was
created in 1820? What was
this person’s role?
7. Who was able to vote in 1840 and in 1850?
8. What is the Eureka Stockade?
Why was the Eureka Stockade an important event?
9. What issues did women and Indigenous Australians have in the past?
FEDERATION
10. Definition of Federation
11. Who were the people responsible for the Federation of Australia? / 13. When did Federation occur? / 15. Why was Federation important? / 16. List the arguments
FOR Federation / 17. List the arguments AGAINST Federation
12. Who were the fathers of Federation? / 14. What is ‘The Constitution’?
18. AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT TODAY
Include general information about:
· The three levels of government and what they are in charge of.
· The people leading at each level of government. (Include the names of politicians and political parties).
· Voting
Include some of this information on your web page.
Choice Tasks
Create a display showing information about Democracy: Changes and Responsibility from Past to Present. You will be presenting this display to students, teachers and parents in Week 10.
This is where you design your own activities using the ‘Choice Wheel.’ This wheel is a Bloom’s Wheel that provides tasks that you can design to display information about the topic: “Democracy: Changes & Responsibility from Past to Present.”
Your display can include:
· 3D models· Science experiments
· Find-a-Words
· Wiki
· Movie / · Posters
· Question Box
· PowerPoint Presentation
· Blog
· Prezzi
Bloom’s Wheel
Use this Bloom’s Wheel to create ‘Choice Tasks’ for this unit of work. Be Creative!
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES and BLOOM’S TAXONOMY
Seven ways
/Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels
Knowing / Understanding / Applying / Analysing / Creating / EvaluatingI enjoy reading, writing and speaking / List all the candidates in the House of Representative and which electorate they stand for. / Outline your views on democracy so far and what it means to you to live in a democracy. / Report back to the class on the role of one or more of the key people in the parliament. / Investigate other countries around the world that are democratic and ones that are not. / Create a poster displaying all the current members of parliament in your area. / Argue your side of one of the many class debates. Practice your rebuttals with a friend.
I enjoy working with numbers and science / Find out why the electorate borders are where they are. / Figure out the numbers needed to win an election if everyone in the school voted. / Calculate using population statistics how many votes a party needs to gain a majority. / Find out how a preferential voting system works and experiment by making one up. / Devise a fair voting system for a school election. / Rate the qualities needed to be a good leader in order from most to least important.
I enjoy painting, drawing, visualising / Create a ballot paper for a made up election. / Draw the House of Representatives and the Senate rooms complete with labels. / Draw or paint a response to the term Democracy. / Compare and contrast the various images of democracy. / Arrange all the electorates on a map of Australia. / Investigate the architecture involved in the Old or New Parliament House.
I enjoy doing hands-on activities / Play a game where there is a leader for a set amount of time. How does it feel to lead and to lead? / Outline the three levels of government in Australia to your understanding. / Show your knowledge of the topic through 3D construction. / Design a class parliament. / Plan a campaign for yourself or someone else for school captain of 2012. / Recommend some issues that could be brought to the class parliament for discussion and vote.
I enjoy making and listening to music / Listen to songs that have strong positive messages and discuss. / Interpret various songs that have very strong viewpoints on certain public issues. / Record your own speech as a candidate running for PM. / Analyse other people’s speeches for PM. / Compose the lyrics to a song that is socially aware. / Listen to the lyrics other people have created and respond to them.
I enjoy working with others / Relate the democratic process to school life. How do the two compare. / Share some of your previous tasks with some other people in the class. / Construct a media campaign expressing your views on key political issues. / Survey the class on a wide range of issues in the school and in the wider community. / Reflect on the democratic principles and what they each mean to society. / Debate numerous issues.
I enjoy working by myself / Write a letter to your local member of parliament about a community issue that affects you. / Describe in your own words what a dictatorship is and how it differs from a democracy. / Examine the communism and how it differs from democracy. / Identify characteristics that make good leaders. List effective leaders that you know. / Imagine you are running for PM. What would your main policies be and why? / Evaluate your work as you go. Challenge yourself to find out answers and achieve good results.
Information Report Proforma