IMAGI-NATION{TV} - Flipping the Script on Indigenous History

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 9 History:

• Identify the origin, purpose and context of primary and secondary sources (ACHHS169).
• Evaluate the reliability and usefulness of primary and secondary sources (ACHHS171).
• Identify and analyse different historical interpretations (including their own) (ACHHS173).
• Develop texts, particularly descriptions and discussions that use evidence from a range of sources that are referenced (ACHHS174).

Year 10 History:

• Identify the origin, purpose and context of primary and secondary sources (ACHHS187).
• Evaluate the reliability and usefulness of primary and secondary sources (ACHHS189).
• Identify and analyse different historical interpretations (including their own) (ACHHS191).
• Develop texts, particularly descriptions and discussions that use evidence from a range of sources that are referenced (ACHHS192).

This lesson is part of a wider program: IMAGI-NATION{TV}

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate and mediate class discussions, lead students in group work tasks.

Syllabus outcomes: HT5-1, HT5-2, HT5-3, HT5-4, HT5-5, HT5-7

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority (optional): Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures (OI.5, OI.9)

Time required: 120 minutes.

• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Online Search Strategies
• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Understanding Evidence And Sources Of Information

This lesson has been developed in partnership with AIME. AIME is an Imagination Factory that since 2005, has been creating pop-up Imagination Factories on university campuses around the world to unlock the internal narrative of marginalised kids, taking them from a world that tells them they can’t to a world that tells them they can. Kids who experience the Imagination Factory have gone on to achieve educational parity, rise up as entrepreneurs, and take on a whole new mindset that prepares them for success.

AIME created IMAGI-NATION{TV} & the IMAGI-NATION{CLASSROOM} experience to put a mentor in the home every day during the tough times of COVID-19 and beyond. It’s a daily TV show broadcast live on the internet, and it’s a gift for teachers, parents and kids to help make sense of today and imagine tomorrow.

The pursuit is to elevate knowledge; every guest we bring on knows something and has wisdom to share. This show is not just about entertainment to pass the time. We want to remake the mould for the modern hero – from beauty to brains, from selfies to self-knowledge, from hashtags to hope. IMAGI-NATION{TV} is seeking to unlock the best in every single one of us; to inspire a generation of heroes in the form of mentors who fight for a fairer world.