Attitudes towards Chinese migrants
Students explore in greater depth what life was like for Chinese immigrants who travelled to Australia in search of gold through comparison and analysis of images, identification of goldfield locations and examining their local community connections with Chinese people.
Chinese migrants and the gold rush (Year 9)
Students explore through primary sources, why Chinese migrated to Australia in the nineteenth century and what life was like on the goldfields.
Chinese migrants and the gold rush (Year 5)
Students explore the founding of British colonies and the development of a colony. They learn about what life was like for different groups of people in the colonial period, particularly Chinese migrants. They examine significant events and people, political and economic developments, social structures, and settlement patterns.
We come to Australia
This learning sequence explores migrant stories of Australians of Asian heritage. Students analyse these stories and reflect on those who come to Australia seeking better lives.
The Boat
A short story in Nam Le’s hugely acclaimed anthology The Boat for its first interactive graphic novel. The result is emotive and intriguing.
The Globalising World: Changing policies and Australian identity
The Globalising World is a unit of work that investigates how migration from 1945 to the present day has shaped Australian society. In particular this unit focuses on the impacts of changing immigration policies and the development of human rights and anti-racism movements in Australia. In this unit, students investigate how racist values in the […]
