What

Self-directed

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday

Duration

60 minutes

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Curriculum links & Accessibility

Year level

Years 9 to 10, VCE

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 55 students

Cost

$7 per student + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

In this History curriculum aligned program, secondary students explore the permanent exhibitions to investigate the causes and effects of migration waves to Australia over the last 230 years.

Students will experience

• Permanent exhibition content through objects, artefacts and interactives.
• Australian immigration policies and key waves of migrants arriving to the continent over the last 230 years.
• Immigration stories explored through a range of perspectives and time periods.
• Intersecting stories of First Peoples and migrants starting from Deep Time to present day.
• An introduction to the museum by a staff member and a booklet to record their findings.

Students will learn

• The key waves and patterns of migration to Australia.
• The consequences and effects of these waves on different groups in society.
• How Australia’s immigration policies have changed over time, including White Australia Policy and the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.
• Reasons why people migrate such as push and pull factors.

Students will be provided

• A booklet to guide them through the galleries and to record their findings.

Students will need

• Pen or pencil.

Other key information

• Teachers are recommended to visit the permanent exhibitions before the excursion to familiarise themselves with the content.

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)