Title of Unit / Indigenous involvement in Year Year 10.

Mixed ability in low

Big Idea WWII SES area. School cohort with
20% Indigenous students.
Curriculum History Time Frame 105-minute lesson within a
Area 6-week unit.
Developed By
Identify Desired Results (Stage 1)
Content Descriptions
 Experiences of Australians during World War II (such as Prisoners of War (POWs), the
Battle of Britain, Kokoda, the Fall of Singapore) (ACDSEH108 - Scootle)
 The impact of World War II, with a particular emphasis on the Australian home front,
including the changing roles of women and use of wartime government controls
(conscription, manpower controls, rationing and censorship) (ACDSEH109 – Scootle)

Achievement Standards
By the end of Year 10, students refer to key events, the actions of individuals and groups, and
beliefs and values to explain patterns of change and continuity over time. They explain the context
for people’s actions in the past. Students explain the significance of events and developments from
a range of perspectives. They explain different interpretations of the past and recognise the
evidence used to support these interpretations. Students develop texts, particularly explanations
and discussions, incorporating historical argument. In developing these texts and organising and
presenting their arguments, they use historical terms and concepts, evidence identified in sources,
and they reference these sources.

General Capabilities Cross-curriculum Priorities

 Critical and Creative Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories
 Intercultural Understanding and Cultures
 Ethical Understanding
 Personal and Social Capability

Understandings Essential Questions

Overarching Understanding Overarching Topical
Do you know if they Have you ever seen
Indigenous involvement in the war is were able to serve? representations of
underrepresented and misunderstood in (EQO1) Indigenous people in
Australian history (OU1) the war? (EQT1)
What year were ATSI
peoples officially Why did Indigenous
Related Misconceptions recognised as citizens of soldiers fight in the
Australia? (EQO2) war when they
weren't yet officially
recognise as citizens?
(EQT2)
Knowledge Skills
Students will know… Students will be able to…

The experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Use historical terms

Islander peoples during World War II
Develop texts using evidence from a range of
sources
The rights Indigenous people had to fight in the
War
That Australian history tends to be whitewashed
and avoids discussing negative actions against
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Select and use various communication forms,
including digital technologies
Identify different perspectives of people from
the past

Assessment Evidence (Stage 2)

Performance Task Description
Summative Students will create a biography that can be accessed online using the Virtual
task 1: War Memorial website of an Indigenous soldier who fought during World War
Indigenous II. Students will need to conduct interviews with local Aboriginal people to
Soldier complete this task as the soldiers are ancestors of local Indigenous peoples.
Biography
Summative At the end of the unit, students will create a timeline of Aboriginal rights and
task 2: include their knowledge of actions taken by Indigenous peoples. This will we
Timeline of completed after we have started looking at Civil Rights both in Australia and in
Aboriginal the US.
rights and
actions
Other Evidence
 Observation
 Group activity completion and presentation

Learning Plan (Stage 3)

10 mins Recap of last lesson
 Students to complete a Kahoot quiz as a class that
will demonstrate their understanding of information
from the first week of the unit
o Teacher to evaluate these results after class
and based on areas students struggled in or
misunderstood, alter teaching plan for
following lesson to cover these topics

20 mins Class discussion: Indigenous involvement in the war

 Teacher to facilitate a discussion with students
about what they know about Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people’s involvement in the war
o Do you know if they were able to serve?
(EQO1)
o What year were ATSI peoples officially
recognised as citizens of Australia? (EQO2)
 Link to EQT2: Why did Indigenous
soldiers fight in the war when they
weren't yet officially recognised as
citizens?
o Have you ever seen representations of
Indigenous people in the war? (EQT1)
 Links to OU1: Indigenous
involvement in the war is
underrepresented and
misunderstood in Australian history

15 mins Teacher directed: Presentation

 Teacher to show students images and videos of
Indigenous involvement and outline how they were
involved in the war effort
 o Soldiers
o On home soil

20-25 mins Group task: Analysing sources

 Working in groups of 3-5, students will be given a
source that highlights indigenous people’s
involvement in the war
o Source 1: image
o Source 2: statistics
o Source 3: excerpt from book
 Students to complete the accompanying worksheet
that asks them to complete the following
o What is the source about?
o What view of Indigenous peoples does the
source take? How do we know this?
o What does the source suggest about ATSI
people’s involvement in the war? Why have
you come to this conclusion?
 Students to share this information from their group
with the class by presenting to the class
o Brief presentation while students take notes

10 mins Teacher directed: Assessment Introduction

 Teacher to explain the task, provide students with
their profile and show them the Virtual War
Memorial website

35 mins Individual work: Assessment planning

Extension tasks for those who
are finished their work, high
achievers etc
 Students to begin researching their profile and
planning their interview questions
Begin creating biography following the template provided.
Images included, and biography needed.
 ASSESSMENT SHEET FOR YEAR 10 HISTORY ASSIGNMENT
Subject: History Year 10
Assessment Type: Summative Assessment Weighting: 25%
Name of Assessment: Biography of Indigenous soldier
BACKGROUND:
Throughout this unit, you have been learning about the involvement of Indigenous people in World War
II. As such, you have found out about their experiences during the war and their involvement in the war
effort.

TASK:
Your task is to research an Indigenous soldier who fought during World War II. You will need to conduct
an interview with local Indigenous people to find out other information about them. You will then need
to present your findings in a biography for that person. This will then be uploaded to the Virtual War
Memorial website for the public to view.
__________________________________________________________________________________
This activity will assess your ability to conduct research into the various perspectives of people in the
past. It will also demonstrate you can produce a text using evidence from a variety of sources that are
accurately referenced in Harvard.

Assessment Conditions: Students will have 3 weeks to complete this assignment and their work will
be checked weekly to ensure they’re on track.

DUE DATE: Week 5, L2 Handed up on Daymap