Supporting resources

15 February 2023

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Through the activities provided in this teaching guide, students can explore different actions and how they contribute to civic life, including civic participation, advocacy and activism. The frameworks provided help students to identify how each action works—the direction, pace and scale—to bring about change. Each of the activities asks students to evaluate the effectiveness, consequences and impact change.

 

Teaching support

Jigsaw groupings

Jigsaw groupings is a cooperative learning strategy that helps students to synthesise ideas from a range of soures and develop deep understanding of a topic. 

Jigsaw groupings

Challenging conversations

This resource provides strategies that are flexible and adaptable, taking into account teaching context, the age of the students, appropriateness of the topic, the depth of discussion, as well as school and community expectations.

A guide to challenging conversations

Using case studies

Case studies are an excellent way of bringing real-world examples into the classroom. This resource looks at to effectively engage with both short-form and more complex case studies.

Using case studies

Accessing parliament resources

Searching Hansard

Hansard is the official report of the proceedings of the Parliament of Victoria from 1856 to the present day. Hansard contains records of parliamentary debate, question time, member’s statements, constituency questions—any official parliamentary activity.

How to search Hansard

Library publications

The Parliamentary Library produces research papers on matters of importance to Members. Research papers dating back to the 59th Parliament are available online.

Research papers

Creating case studies

Case studies are effective educational tools that can bring curriculum content to life by linking it with real-world events and diverse perspectives. Below is a practical guide for developing and applying case studies, along with recommended formats, sources, and activities for classroom use.

Creating case studies

Literacy support

Glossary

The glossary includes definitions for key roles in parliament as well as key processes.

Glossary

Literacy strategies

Explore interactive and collaborative approaches to discipline-based literacy that aim to build deep comprehension skills and critical thinking.

Literacy strategies

Graphic organisers

Generating questions


Students can use the 'Question matrix' to generate questions that can be used to support discussion and/or researching topics of interest.

Question matrix

K-W-L Chart

AcK-W-L Chart tracks what students know (K) wants to know (W) and have learnt (L) about a topic. This can be used before, during and after research projects.

K-W-L Chart

Civic conversation prompts

Conceptions and misconceptions

The glossary includes definitions for key roles in parliament as well as key processes.

Glossary

Decision making cards

The glossary includes definitions for key roles in parliament as well as key processes.

Decision making cards

Action and influence cards

The cards can be used to prompt students to think about the different types of actions that they could take to create change. Students can evaluate each actions impact, select actions when developing action plans, or select which actions are relevant to a case study.

Action and influence cards