Suggested Level: Middle Secondary
Learning outcome: This activity provides students with an opportunity to be a virtual historian by engaging in immersive learning that draws upon their historical thinking and understanding, which challenges students to theorise and hypothesise. This lesson links to the Australian Curriculum history strands ACOKFH015, ACOKFH017 for Year 9 and ACDSEH023 and ACDSEH104 for Year 10.
Materials and resources: Notebooks, pens, video camera
Scenario:
You have slipped through an anomaly in the fabric of space-time arriving back to the period of our early Australian settlers.
You are challenged to advocate for the human rights of our first peoples. What warnings might you give the Indigenous people, and what advice for the white settlers. How might you advocate for an agreement based on the Universal Declaration for Human Rights? How are the Australian indigenous viewed? Reference the Magna Carta? Consider continuity and change over time? How might you empathise with the white settlers? What questions might you pose to turn sources into evidence? What are the advantages of hindsight?
Write a script for a short time traveller’s documentary. If your school has the facilities, produce your film showing contrasts between this historical time and place and the present.