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Year 6 history assessment - Australia as a nation: a migration story

Assessment resource Year 6 history assessment - Australia as a nation: a migration story

TLF ID M014415

This is an assessment package that uses the Year 6 Australian Curriculum history achievement standard to gather evidence about how well students have demonstrated what they know, what they understand and what they can do in relation to the topic 'Australia as a Nation'. Students develop and deliver a multimodal presentation based on a hypothesis or position to explain the significance of the contributions that one individual or group who migrated from an Asian country has made to the development of Australian society. The package comprises teacher guidelines, student booklet, assessment resources and task-specific standards (rubric, matrix, continua).

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Educational details

Educational value
  • This resource is of significant value because of its relevance to 'Australia as a Nation' content descriptions in the Year 6 history curriculum. Students use relevant sources to investigate Australia as a nation in the context of migration using the relevant key inquiry questions for this year level.
  • This assessment provides an opportunity to gather evidence, using the Year 6 Australian Curriculum history achievement standard, about how well students have demonstrated what they know, understand and can do. This assessment package ensures alignment between what is taught and what is assessed.
Year level

6

Topics Communities Active citizenship Creating texts Beliefs Right angles Artefacts Word meanings Asia Student assessment Migration Maps (Geographic location) Attitudes Australian history Data representation Data collection Social history Evaluation Information retrieval Inquiry-based learning Multimodal texts Oral presentations Chronological order Historical inquiry Historical sources Research questions
Learning area
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • History

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Person: Karl Baron
  • Description: Photographer
  • Publisher
  • Name: Queensland Studies Authority
  • Organization: Queensland Studies Authority
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: Queensland, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.qsa.qld.edu.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
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Learning Resource Type
  • Assessment
  • Online
  • Text
Rights
  • Resource © Queensland Studies Authority 2013 (except where otherwise indicated). This material may be used and reproduced free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes by Australian schools and education bodies as covered by the National Educational Access Licence for Schools (NEALS) (unless another licence is indicated on certain material as being applicable), provided all acknowledgements are retained. For all other uses please contact the Queensland Studies Authority, PO Box 307, Spring Hill Qld 4004 Australia or email [email protected]. Image © Karl Baron 2013. This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence (CC BY 2.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/