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11.3 SkillBuilder activity Practise the skill of using inquiry questions and note-taking for investigations and research by selecting one of the following topics. Research topics • Investigate the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum. • Investigate how Australian citizens participate in the justice process. LESSON 11.4 SkillBuilder: Evaluating democratic institutions and systems LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this SkillBuilder you should be able to create a cartoon, meme or advertisement to express a point of view about a political issue At a Year 7 level, students should be able to understand and evaluate democratic institutions and systems. This involves an understanding of how an institution or system might work and drawing conclusions about its effectiveness. 11.4.1 Tell me Political media can take many forms: • Political cartoons use pictures, words and humour to represent ideas about a person or issue from a point of view. • Political parties use advertisements to highlight the positive aspects of one party, or the negative aspects of another. • Political memes are like cartoons — they use humour to highlight an aspect of a person or issue, using a reference that the intended audience understands. Political media often present information about a person or issue from a particular point of view. This is done deliberately to highlight an issue, provide support for people or criticise a decision or action. This kind of information can help us to draw our own conclusions about things. One of the steps in forming our own conclusions about institution and systems in politics, for example, is identifying and using bias. This relates to objective and subjective information. • Objective information is data or events that are presented without emotive words or opinion. For example, describing a car accident as a ‘trafýc collision’ is objective. • Subjective information is information that is presented with opinion or bias. For example, describing the same car accident as ‘a horror smash’ is subjective. This is because ‘horror smash’ is a very emotive phrase that has been used to get a strong reaction from the reader. 11.4.2 Showme Step1 Creating political media can be tricky — it requires understanding of the person or issues and the intended audience, as well as creativity. Generally, only one viewpoint is presented, rather than a broad discussion of all points of view.
Jacaranda Humanities Alive 7 Victorian Curriculum Third Edition
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