Looking at the Year 6 History Curriculum? Need a starting point? Look no further than this unit.

This 8-lesson unit explores the concept of federation, life in 20th-century Australia and immigration through unique hands-on activities, including craft activities, templates and more. They will have the opportunity to develop questions, locate, collect, and organise information and evaluate information and data from a variety of sources. They will use this to develop evidence-based conclusions, proposed actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects and present explanations and findings in a variety of methods.

The unit plan package downloads as a zip file and contains the following resources:

• Unit Guide: includes a scope and sequence, unit overview, lesson plans with associated resources, assessments, rubrics, suggested resources, and tiered vocabulary lists.
• PowerPoint: provides supplementary information for each lesson, including timelines and interactive quiz.
• Displays: a unit banner, definition posters for federation, factors opposing and supporting federation, immigration, migrants, famous faces of federation and life in 20^th century Australia.