Story of Our Rights and Freedoms - Our Democratic Freedoms

In this Finding Out lesson, students will dive deeper into the democratic freedoms enjoyed in Australia. They will choose a specific democratic freedom and work in groups to conduct online research into the meaning of it. Students will display their findings for their classmates to read. Then, using a stacked Venn diagram, students will apply their understanding of democratic freedoms to imagine what they look like in action at different levels of society, starting with themselves. Students will then choose a minority group and in a circle-of-viewpoints activity, imagine the experience of democratic freedoms from a different perspective. Students will reflect on their learning through a ‘Connect-Extend-Challenge’ visible thinking routine.

Essential questions:

• What democratic freedoms are we entitled to?
• Why are democratic freedoms important?