Whole School Matters draft manuscript
Community Matters draft manuscript
Getting Started on The Whole School Approach
MindMatters Recognition and Overview
MindMatters Planning Tools
School Audits and Surveys
Curriculum Links
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Community Partnerships
Whole Student Approach
Student Empowerment
School Stories

Enhancing Resilience 1 links to Civics and Citizenship

 

Activities & Sessions

Possible Standards

Making agreements

Name wave page 28

Grouping using family cards - page 28

Generating rules & expectations - includes sample questions - page 29

Refining the rules page 30

School support for rules page 30

Rules and expectations task sheet (worksheet) page 31

Level 5 Civic knowledge and understanding

At Level 5 students explain the origins and features of representative government. They compare representative government with other forms of governance. They explain the importance of political rights and describe how they were achieved in Australia. They describe the purposes of laws and the processes of creating and changing them. They identify and discuss the qualities of leadership through historical and contemporary examples. They identify and question the features and values of Australia’s political and legal systems. They use a range of sources for their inquiries, including the mass media, and present viewpoints based on evidence.