Support your Year 6 students in their Civics & Citizenship: Australia’s System of Governmentunit of work with the Australia’s System of Government Foldable task.

Created to coincide with the Year 6 Australian Curriculum, this activity will provide students with the opportunity to examine the role of the monarchy and its representatives in Australia and the parliaments and courts in Australia’s system of government.

Students will conduct research on the separation of powers in Australia’s system of government: the Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary. On a foldable template, they will record their findings:

• On the first page, students will record what each branch of the government consists of and add relevant illustrations.
• On the second page, they will record the roles of the Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary.
• Finally, students will cut the first page and attach it to the second page, creating a lift-the-flap foldable.