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Democratic struggles - unit of work

Teacher guide Democratic struggles - unit of work

TLF ID M009641

This is an extended unit of work about how democratic rights were achieved in Britain and Australia. It comes from the 'Discovering democracy' series of units and is organised around five focus questions explored through sequences of learning that include student worksheets and assessment tasks. Three of the focus questions are about the influence of Chartism. One is about who had the vote in Australia before democracy and the other is about how the franchise was extended. Selected sources and assessment criteria are included.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • This is a highly valuable resource for history teaching and learning in year 9. The sequences of learning and student worksheets are directly relevant to at least six content descriptions in the following elective depth studies: Progressive ideas and movements (1750-1918); the Industrial Revolution (1750-1914); and Making a nation. The resource is one of the few digital resources currently available that deals extensively with Chartism.
  • The learning activities provide useful opportunities for students to develop and enhance their historical skills. These skills include processing and synthesising information from a range of sources for use as evidence in a historical argument. Some of the sources presented in the resource are fictional documents and are identified accordingly. They provide an interesting opportunity for students to evaluate the reliability and usefulness of sources.
Year level

9

Topics Industrialisation Chartism Voting rights Revolutions (Conflict) Democracy Secondary sources Primary sources
Learning area
  • 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/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Commonwealth of Australia
  • Organization: Commonwealth of Australia
  • Address: ACT, AUSTRALIA
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Name: The Department of Education\, Employment and Workplace Relations (DE
  • Organization: The Department of Education\, Employment and Workplace Relations (DE
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: ACT, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.deewr.gov.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Online
Rights
  • © Commonwealth of Australia 2009. With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and the DEEWR logo and copyright material that is owned by third parties, you may use the material in accordance with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-SA) 3.0 Australia licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/au/ provided that appropriate acknowledgement is made, the material is not subjected to derogatory treatment and any derivative work attributes the original material and identifies the changes that have been made to it.