The supporting Teacher Guide provides practical approaches to exploring the concepts and texts. Teachers, in developing their own courses appropriate to the interests of their particular students, will find the materials stimulating and a valuable supplement to existing course design. This series of class activities makes use of some extracts from the 'We Are Australian' section in Australian Readers Discovering Democracy Middle Primary Collection and in the corresponding section in the Teacher Guide . To explore this theme there are five sets of activities which use different elements of the Australian Readers . The activities can be completed as stand-alone exercises or used as integrated sets.
Students consider how to describe a sense of belonging to a nation.
Students investigate differing views of being Australian from different times and different perspectives. Students gather evidence to build a picture of diversity and change over time. They develop an understanding of some of the values, beliefs and actions that bring us together as a nation. Exploring characteristics of Australians Activity 3. The Australian identity over time Activity 4.