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Year Level: Upper Primary |
SOSE Outcome Level: 4 |
This unit of work has been developed to support and enhance the 'Waterwatch' Catchment Study developed by Derek Foster et al. for the Queensland Department of Primary Industries in the early 1990's. It is based on the Action Research work involving Water Quality Monitoring pioneered by Prof. Bill Stapp in the U.S.A. 'Waterwatch' is now an activity being undertaken by schools and community groups in catchments across Australia and the World.
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Year Level: Middle Secondary |
SOSE Outcome Level: 6 |
There are five major types of laws present in Australian society. These are: common, statute, customary, criminal and civil. Criminal laws exist in order to make people within a society feel safe and protected. Criminal behaviour is becoming a more serious problem for our society especially in relation to juvenile offenders. Crime is defined as a wrong committed against society and society has developed a system of rules that it has agreed should be followed so that society can function efficiently and effectively. These rules reflect the community attitudes that exist in relation to specific types of behaviour and the community belief that these actions should be punished.
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Year Level: 10 |
SOSE Outcome Level: 6 |
The Australian political landscape has changed quite markedly in the last one hundred years. At the tail end of the nineteenth century did Henry Parkes and others imagine the rise of strong political parties? Realistically, they probably did not. However, quite clearly Australia's founding fathers perceived, for example, the state-based role of the federal Senate to be an essential component within our democratic nation. Why then, one hundred years later, is this upper house the centre of such well-publicised criticism? Is this criticism justified? Is the Senate still a valid institution in our modern world? Political parties have come to dominate the House of Representatives throughout this century. Are political parties now trying to usurp the traditional power of the States? Are these things simply characteristic of an evolving system of government?
Through a broad investigation of these types of questions, in this unit students will develop a knowledge of the historical background to our contemporary Australian system of democracy, as well as an understanding of the modern challenges to this system and the developing role of political parties.
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Year Level: 3-7 |
SOSE Outcome Levels: 3 and 4 |
Whitsunday Christian Community School is a small school that was established in 1997. Two important foundational values were cooperation and active involvement. These values form an important part of the school curriculum and school planning. To facilitate an integrated approach and diffuse these values through the curriculum the Sand and Sea framework was developed in 1998. This allows staff and students to identify areas of responsibility or needs in the immediate and wider community and to develop strategies to address those needs.
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Year Level: 9 |
SOSE Outcome Level: 5 |
Much has been written about the need for Australian youth to be more knowledgeable and empowered as citizens. A working knowledge of the law should be a part of this citizenship education. CRIMINALS, CASES AND COURTS responds to this challenge by differentiating between civil and criminal law and exploring how Australian courts and laws work to protect people and their rights and provide justice. Thus this unit combines the civic republican and liberal (or Republican Liberalism [Dagger 1997, p.23]) traditions of citizenship by promoting civic-mindedness and civic independence.
The aims of the unit are (a) to empower lower-level students in their dealings with the law by investigating the legal rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens within the court system and how the law courts work to protect the community and provide justice and (b) to provide students with knowledge, skills and values relevant to the court system.
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Year Level: 10 |
SOSE Outcome Levels: 5 and 6 |
Students have preconceived notions of what democracy means to them and to Australia. By examining these notions and considering the situation in Germany between the wars, students will address what the loss of democracy might mean. A future perspective is taken by considering the possibility of such events happening in Australia.
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Year Level: 8 and 9 |
SOSE Outcome Level: 5 |
Author: Kate Masson and Ann Nearhos
Position: Teachers
School: Dalby SHS
This Studies of Society and Environment course consists of five units.
The aim of the Studies of Society and Environment program at Dalby State High School is to assist students to understand themselves and their society and environment; and to become aware, active and conscientious members of society. In this context, civics education is essential and all students will study these units during their compulsory years of schooling. The course consists of five units: Who Rules? The Soap Opera; Struggles and Rights; The Story of Australia; Politicians and Their Work; What Sort of Nation.
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