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Year 6 History sample assessment - Australia as a nation: A migration story

Image source: Hong Kong passport stamps by Karl Baron / CC BY 2.0

This sample assessment is based on previous versions of the Australian Curriculum.

Australia as a nation

Description

Students use relevant sources to investigate Australia as a nation using the relevant key inquiry questions of this year level, in the context of migration:

  • How did Australian society change throughout the twentieth century?
  • Who were the people who came to Australia?
  • Why did they come?
  • What contribution have significant individuals and groups made to the development of Australian society?

They will:

  • identify questions and develop a hypothesis to investigate an individual or migrant group from an Asian country
  • locate and compare a range of relevant historical sources
  • compare information in sources to answer inquiry questions
  • develop and deliver a presentation to explain the significance of the contributions of one individual or migrant group from an Asian country to the development of Australian society.

Multimodal: Research

Contents:

  • Teacher guidelines (includes cover page)
  • Student booklet 
  • Task-specific standards: Continua
  • Task-specific standards: Matrix
  • Assessment resource: Historical inquiry process
  • Assessment resource: Sample letter to parents/carers
  • Assessment resource: Question starter grid
  • Assessment resource: Questioning sources
  • Assessment resource: Using primary sources

Download the full assessment (contains the documents as Word files):

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