HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES Y 10

SAMPLE TEACHING AND LEARNING OUTLINE

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES YEAR 10

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Civics and Citizenship

Justice at home and

Compare Australia and Indonesia

overseas

Focus on a recent election in each

The key features and values country

of Australia's system of

participation

government (e.g. democratic freedom of the press

elections, the separation of independence of the electoral

powers) compared with one

authority

other system of government Does the separation of powers

in the Asia region, such as

exist in each country?

China, Japan, India or 1?3 Indonesia

What is the relationship between the executive, legislative and

judicial branches of government?

Skills:

questioning and research

analysing

Concepts:

democracy

democratic values

participation

the Westminster system

Australia's roles and

View film: Australia as a global

responsibilities at a global citizen

level (provision of foreign aid, peacekeeping, participation in international organisations, such as UN)

In groups, research particular topics and report to the class

Topics include: changes to foreign aid

allocation over time

particular peacekeeping

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missions

Australia at the UN

Australia and G20

Skills:

questioning and research

analysing

communicating and reflecting

Concepts:

rights and responsibilities

The role of the High Court, Various roles of the High Court in

including interpreting the the Australian political and legal

Constitution

system

Study of one constitutional case,

e.g.

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Uniform Tax (1942)

Tasmanian Dam Case (1983)

Work Choices Case (2006)

Skills:

analysing

Concepts:

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PEO website includes a comparison with Indonesia closer-look.html Australian Electoral Commission /Australian_electoral_history/ The Indonesian election 2014 and democracy s/banyan/2014/07/indonesiasdemocracy Indonesian election 2014 and democracy

Australia as a global citizen (2010) (ClickView) Peacekeeping peacekeeping.asp Foreign aid tralias-aid-program.aspx

Law society website u/wpcontent/uploads/2015/10/2016Year-10-Post-Visit-TeacherResource.pdf Chapter 3 Commonwealth Constitution PEO website closer-look/the-australian-

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The international agreements Australia has ratified and examples of how they shape government policies and laws (e.g. the protection of World Heritage areas, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)

The threats to Australia's democracy and other democracies, such as the influence of vested interests, organised crime, corruption and lawlessness

democracy justice The impact of treaties on: Australian law Australian policy making

Investigate an example connecting a particular international agreement/treaty with governmental policy/law in Australia Skills: questioning and research analysing Concepts: democracy rights and responsibilities Identification and examination of particular threats to Australia's democracy and other democracies

Suggested activities/resources constitution/the-constitutionand-the-high-court.html Gareth Evans Speech 5/09/04/international-treatiestheir-impact-on-australia.html

Australia and Human Rights Treaties /human-rights-explained-factsheet-7australia-and-humanrights-treaties

Organised Crime in Australia 2015 publications/intelligenceproducts/organised-crimeaustralia/organised-crimeaustralia-2015 Why Australia needs to change its view on organised crime

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Use the David Kilgour analysis or Kilgour analysis

the Jared Diamond `threats to



American democracy' as a

mp/democra2.htm

starting point for the identification and examination of particular threats

Diamond `threats to American democracy'

Skills:

s/four-threats-to-american-

analysing

democracy-250120

evaluating

Concepts:

democracy democratic values

The safeguards that protect The role of the Human Rights

Ch.17 Terry Moran: The

Australia's democratic

Commission

challenges for the public service

system and society, including The role of media in its various in protecting Australia's

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shared values and the right forms to dissent within the bounds The role of an independent

democracy in the future

of the law

judiciary

content/uploads/2012/04/ch17.p

Western Australia: Criminal Code df

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Amendment (Prevention of Lawful Activity) Bill 2015

Use the debate on the WA bill and responses/reactions from the wider community to question whether all safeguards fulfil their purpose Skills: analysing evaluating

Concepts: democracy democratic values justice rights and responsibilities

A Charter for a Free Press in Australia

charter-of-press-freedom/

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