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Year 10 history assessment - Rights and freedoms in Australia

Assessment resource Year 10 history assessment - Rights and freedoms in Australia

TLF ID M014420

This is an assessment package that uses the Year 10 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 for the depth study 'Rights and Freedoms (1945 – present)'. Students plan and deliver a spoken presentation about a civil rights event that is significant to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples. The package comprises teacher guidelines, student booklet, assessment resources and task-specific standards (rubric, matrix, continua).

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Educational value
  • This resource is of significant value because of its relevance to content descriptions in the depth study 'Rights and freedoms' in the Year 10 history curriculum. Students complete a case study on the significance of a civil rights event for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples. They develop a hypothesis about the significance of the event, develop a referenced script and deliver a spoken or signed presentation.
  • This assessment provides an opportunity to gather evidence, using the Year 10 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

10

Topics Stolen Generations Aboriginal history Native title Activism Creating texts Word meanings Student assessment Attitudes Australian history Values (Psychology) Historiography Human rights Civil rights Legal equality Reasoning Critical thinking Referenda Terrorism Evidence Judgement Impartiality Text types Political leaders Oral presentations Torres Strait Islander history Referencing Significant people 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: Roke
  • 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
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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 © Roke © 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/.