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People Power

At a glance

Focus question 1: How did the Freedom Riders escalate the campaign for justice for Aboriginal people?

Content
 Activities
(Assessment activities are in bold italics.)
 Preparation
  • concepts of
    discrimination and
    segregation
     
  • events of the
    Freedom Ride
     
  • strategies
     
     
  • role of the media changes
  • results of the Freedom Ride
  • respond to a
    hypothetical
    situation
    (simulation)
  • analyse visual,
    written and verbal
    text
  • complete a CD
    ROM interactive
     
  • record reflections
    in journals
     
  • prepare a written or oral report
  • whole class:
    Handout 2
  • groups: Handout 1
    &nbps;
  • OHT: Handout 3
     
     
  • Discovering
    Democracy Primary
    Video
  • Stories of
    Democracy     CD
    ROM
  • Australian atlas/wall map
  • student notebooks
  • 'People Power' matrix on four sheets of A3 paper or similar (see table, Activity 2)
  • Table, Activity 6, on a board

Teaching and learning activities

Focus question 2: How did groups of Australian workers bring about improvements in their working conditions?

Content
 Activities
(Assessment activities are in bold italics.)
 Preparation
  • work and recreation
  • work in the 1850s
     
     
  • the Eight-hour Day
    movement
  • symbols and
    celebrations
  • comparing work
    today
  • respond to a
    hypothetical
    situation
    (simulation)
  • collate and analyse
    data
  • use verbal and
    written sources
  • role-play
     
  • analyse visual text
  • record reflections in journals
  • create visual images
  • pairs: Handouts 5, 6
  • OHT: Handout 4
     
     
  • Eight-hour Day
    Movement     poster
  • art materials
     
  • Table, Activity 1
     
  • 'People Power' matrix

Teaching and learning activities

Focus question 3: What have Equal Pay campaigners done to remove some of the discrimination against women in employment?

Content
 Activities
(Assessment activities are in bold italics.)
 Preparation
  • gender
    discrimination in
    the workplace
  • Equal Pay
    movement
  • employment
    attitudes in the
    1950s
  • case studies
     
  • events in the Equal
    Pay campaign
  • Equal Opportunity legislation
  • respond to a
    hypothetical
    situation
    (simulation)
     
  • analyse visual text
     
     
  • interpret written
    and tabular data
  • record reflections
    in journals
  • present a written or oral report
  • pairs: Handouts
    7, 10
  • groups: Handouts
    11-15
     
  • Handouts 8, 9
     
     
  • People Power
    Card 1a
  • prepare a two or three metre long timeline, using computer or A3 paper. Title it 'Some events in the Equal Pay for Women campaign', and mark the decades 1900 to present along the bottom
  • 'People Power' matrix

Teaching and learning activities

Focus question 4: In what ways can popular movements achieve change?

Content
 Activities
(Assessment activities are in bold italics.)
 Preparation
  • strategies
     
  • citizen action
    and change
  • analyse scenarios
     
  • reach group
    decisions
  • present a written or oral report
  • analyse and synthesise ideas
  • People Power
    Cards 1-2
  • single Handout 17
     
  • copy the strategies and definitions on Handout 16 on to slips of paper so that half the class have the name of a strategy and the others have a copy of one definition

Teaching and learning activities

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