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=**MIGRATION - A BRAVE JOURNEY!**= An Integrated Inquiry Unit Examining Personal/National Identity

__Summary of the Content of the Unit: Migration - A Brave Journey!__ The objective of this unit is to discover the richness of backgrounds that make up our class and the contributions that this richness has brought, not only to our class and school, but to wider Australian society. It is based off the knowledge that the majority of the children in my class are either first generation Australians or born overseas. This unit encourages the children to learn something of their own history and then place this in the context of wider global and Australian history. This unit is designed to contribute to the wider question of: //What does it mean to be an Australian today?// This unit begins by looking at movement and introducing the concepts of migration and immigration. It then goes on to look at some of the reasons why people choose to move/migrate/immigrate/emigrate, introducing the concepts of push and pull factors. Afer these concepts have been explored sufficiently, the class will move onto investigating their own family background - this may be any kind of move (suburbs, interstate, internationally). The class will design a series of interview questions which they will practice (as a modelled exercise) on someone within the school community before taking it home to interview (a) family members. This will be followed by an oral/av presentation of findings to the class (which again, will have been modelled beforehand), after which the children will write a report about their findings to contribute to a class book. The unit will end with a look at a controversial current Australian issue - that of 'boat people'. The issue will be explored and the children will be guided into engaging in a debate on the issue (exploring bias and persuasive language in text).