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Waves of Migration Self-directed

What: Self-directed
When: Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
Duration: 60 minutes
Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund
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