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Waves of Migration

What: Museum Staff-led
When: Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Thursday
Duration: 45 minute workshop, 45 minute gallery visit
Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund
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