Why Crime Stoppers Works
Drug Crime and the Law
Active Citizenship
Cybercrime and the Law
Democratic Values
Law Enforcement, Courts And The Role Of Citizens
Laws and Crime
Wildlife Crime and the Law
Why Crime Stoppers Works
An understanding of the Civics and Citizenship concepts is developed through a focus on Australia’s democracy and legal system. The teaching ideas in this resource assist students to gain knowledge and understanding of how citizens can participate in providing justice through their role as witnesses. Links to curriculum codes: AC9HC7K03 / VC2HC8K05
An understanding of the Civics and Citizenship concepts is developed through a focus on Australia’s laws, the responsibilities and freedoms of citizens and participation in the democratic process. The teaching ideas in this resource assist students to gain knowledge and understanding of how citizens can use direct action to contribute to Australian democracy.
Links to curriculum codes: AC9HC8K01 / VC2HC8K06
An understanding of the Civics and Citizenship concepts is developed through a focus on how Australia’s legal system works to support a democratic and just society. The teaching ideas in this resource assist students to gain knowledge and understanding regarding the factors that can undermine the application of the principles of justice.
Links to curriculum codes: AC9HC9K04 / VC2HC10K05
An understanding of the Civics and Citizenship concepts is developed through a focus on Australia’s global roles and responsibilities and the values and practices that enable a resilient democracy to be sustained. The teaching ideas in this resource assist students to gain knowledge and understanding regarding the safeguards that protect Australia’s democratic system and society.
Links to curriculum codes: AC9HC10K05 / VC2HC10K10
Introduction
We support the view that schooling should develop a sense of community engagement in students by increasing their potential to be informed, responsible, ethical and active participants in society.
Through practical tasks relating to real life experiences, these free resources help students develop a positive attitude towards their role in society. They enable teachers to select lesson ideas within a theme in any order, to best suit curriculum requirements and the interest of students.
Digital resources embedded in these resources comply with the Social Media Minimum Age obligation (SMMA obligation) and have been chosen with careful consideration to support learning and wellbeing. Some resources feature YouTube videos that can be seen without logging into an account. These should be viewed by students with teacher support.
We developed these to make the compulsory content of the Australian Curriculum Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) Civics and Citizenship syllabus for Years 7-10 more engaging.
To make things easy, lesson ideas link directly to the Australian and Victorian content codes and key concepts, namely, Democratic Values, The Westminster System, Justice, Participation, and Rights and Responsibilities. The activities provided are just suggestions and should be adjusted to suit the student cohort.
Learning Intentions
Resource Focus
Community safety and wellbeing is enhanced when individuals understand how to take action to report crimes.
Students Understand:
• Why people report crimes
• Why people may be reluctant to report crimes
• How Crime Stoppers provides anonymity
Assessment
Choose a comic creator such as Canva to design a cartoon that reflects the following statement:
‘Dobbing’ is considered un-Australian but being responsible for a safe community means we can all take part in helping the police to remove unwanted criminals from our neighbourhood.