What

Museum Staff-led

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Thursday

Duration

45 minute workshop, 45 minute gallery visit

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Curriculum links & Accessibility

Year level

Years 9 to 10, VCE

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 50 students

Cost

$9 per student + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

In this curriculum-aligned program, secondary History students use artefacts and documents to learn about Australia’s immigration history and waves of migrations.

Students will experience

• Interacting with museum artefacts and documents to discover key details of the waves of migration to Australia.
• Sharing ideas with team members.
• Reporting back findings to the class.
• Building a chronology of Australian immigration policies over the last 230 years.
• Following a classroom session, visit museum galleries to consolidate learning from the classroom session.

Students will learn

In the classroom session, students will learn about

• How push and pull factors have determined the waves of migration.
• The role of government immigration policies on Australian society.
• The attitudes of society on immigration to Australia.
• The significance of immigration on Australia’s history.

In the galleries, students will use a booklet to:

• Build on their learning in the classroom session.
• Examine the effects of each wave of migration on different groups in society.
• How Australia’s immigration policies have changed over time.

Students will be provided

• A booklet to take back to school which will guide them through the galleries and to record their findings.

Students will need

• Pen or pencil.

Victorian Curriculum links

History Levels 9 and 10

• Significant events, ideas, people, groups and movements that contributed to continuity and change in Australian society between 1750 and 1914
  VC2HH10K09
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’, local-born colonists’ and migrants’ experiences and perspectives of continuity and change between 1750 and 1914
  VC2HH10K10
• continuities and/or changes caused by a major global influence, development and/or event after 1945
  VC2HH10K39
• causes and consequences of significant post-1945 world events, ideas and developments, and their influences on Australia after 1945
  VC2HH10K38

Intercultural Capability: Levels 9 and 10

• how diverse cultures, including their own, influence one another in a range of contexts and how this impacts identity and a sense of belonging and inclusion
  VC2CI10C01
• ways in which intercultural relations and intercultural experiences are influenced by policies and practices of a range of institutions
  VC2CI10C02

VCE History

• Unit 3 and 4: Australian History - Creating a nation (1834–1913)