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.
Face the facts
The Face the Facts education resource will help students understand issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. This resource complements the Commission’s 2012 Face the Facts publication, which provides accurate and easy to understand facts about these groups based on primary research information from a variety of sources.
Australia as a nation: race, rights and immigration
Australia as a nation – race, rights and immigration is a unit of work that explores Australia’s development as a nation throughout the 20th Century with a particular focus on the changing experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. In this unit, students have the opportunity to develop their […]
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 […]
