An interactive activity about settling in Ainslie.
Key Learning Objectives: Students investigate the stories of individuals and groups of people who moved to Australia.
Students describe a range of effects that migration has on people.
Students identify strategies migrants use to maintain links with the past.
Educational Value: Describes how migrants have adapted to life in Australia and maintained links with their original culture.
Illustrates artefacts associated with migrants from a range of countries.
Includes graphics contrasting architectural styles and interior decorations between 1838 and 2003.
Encourages students to explore, synthesise and interpret information from a range of sources.
Illustrates a range of experiences and attitudes using fictional characters.
Provides a printable worksheet with key graphics and the student's responses to questions about the migrants' experiences.
Help a town planner to design a site plan for a school. Using a 10x10 grid, design areas for four regions (library, car park, lawn and canteen) based on the percentages given. Assign the area for an additional two regions, using percentages of your choice. Use a number line to indicate the equivalent fractions for two regions. This learning object is one in a series of two objects. The series is also packaged as a combined learning object.