4.1+Understandings

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

=Inquiry Unit Planner =

** Major understandings **
 
 * Australia is a multicutural nation
 * Immigration shapes both the personal and national sense of identity
 * How I am connected to my family and it's history/future and Australia and it's history/future
 * Contributing understandings**
 * Understanding how Australia has been shaped and enriched by immigration
 * Understanding reasons why people may choose to migrate/move
 * Understanding how multiculturalism is shaping Australia
 * Understanding ourselves, others and their cultures
 * Recognising the complexity of identity
 * Recognising my connectedness with my family/Australia
 * Presenting a point of view
 * ICT as a tool for both research and presentation
 * Accepting and understanding different points of view on the same topic
 * Literacy: reading, writing in various forms, and presenting in various forms
 * Major Concepts**
 * Connectedness
 * Identity