A Year 9 Inquiry Project

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Coranderrk

• A Year 9 Inquiry Project

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Impetus

• SBS First Australians series
• How to show cooperation and conflict between
  First Australians and European Australians
• How to have students recognise the complexities
  of relationships between the two groups in the
  late 1800s
• Authentic historical inquiry
• The hook of a Victorian story

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Inquiry Task Australian Curriculum

• When researching, students develop inquiry
  questions and plan an inquiry.
• They identify and locate both primary and
  secondary sources using information technologies
  and other methods.
• They process information from these sources and
  use it as evidence to answer inquiry questions.
• They process historical information from a range
  of sources.
• Students examine sources to identify and describe
  different points of view, values, attitudes and
  perspectives.

• They explain the context for peoples actions and
  experiences in the past.
• They link effects to causes and explain those
  links.
• Students compose historical texts, particularly
  explanations and discussions (incorporating
  historical argument) and use evidence from
  primary and secondary sources to support their
  conclusions.
• They use appropriate historical terms, concepts
  and appropriate acknowledgement or referencing of
  source material in their historical texts.
• They present their findings in a range of forms,
  in particular written and visual texts, including
  digital technologies.

The Australian Curriculum History,
http//www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/History/Cur
riculum/F-10 Accessed on 24 July 2011
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Other Rationale

• Stéphane Lévesque, Thinking Historically
  Educating Students for the 21st Century
  (University of Toronto Press 2008)

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SBS First Australians

• EPISODE 3 - Freedom for our lifetime
• The threat of extinction hovers over the first
  Australians of Victoria at the time Wurundjeri
  clan leader Simon Wonga seeks land from the
  authorities. He soon gives up and leads his
  people to the banks of the Yarra River, claiming
  a parcel of land Coranderrk. With the help of a
  Scottish preacher, and inspired by the farming
  practices of the settlers, the community prospers
  until the authorities step in and resist self
  determination.
• http//www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/
• http//www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/index/index
  /epid/3

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Coranderrk in School Text

• Jacaranda Humanities Alive 3 and Humanities Alive
  History 2
• Both have 2-page text spreads
• Humanities Alive History has worksheet

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The Task As Students Developed It

• Student inquiry of conditions at Coranderrk and
  reasons for it
• Depth study of one aspect of life at Coranderrk
• Breadth study of Half-Caste Act of 1869

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Websites for Research

• http//www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/coranderrk/def
  ault.htm
• http//museumvictoria.com.au/encounters/coranderrk
  /index.htm
• http//www.slv.vic.gov.au/ergo/coranderrk_mission
• http//www.yarrahealing.catholic.edu.au/stories-vo
  ices/index.cfm?loadref81
• http//adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030087b.htm
• http//www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/william-barak/
• http//www.murrupbarak.unimelb.edu.au/content/page
  s/william-barak-1824-1903

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Taking Things Further

• Could make a trip to Coranderrk, outside
  Healesville

ABC Awaye! Gallery, http//www.abc.net.au/rn/awaye
/galleries/2011/3238048/image2.htm Accessed on 25
July 2011