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Role-play the Parliament: Senate video

Video Role-play the Parliament: Senate video

TLF ID M020301

This is a video of a law-making role-play in the Senate. This resource supports the year 6 Civics and Citizenship Curriculum. It shows teachers how to turn their classroom into the Senate chamber and how to role-play parts of the law-making process.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • This video supports the year 6 civics and citizenship curriculum content description which refers to how laws are initiated and passed through Parliament.
  • It models the use of experiential learning to teach about Parliament. Students can actively learn about Parliament and law-making by taking on the roles of members of Parliament and debating bills.
  • This resource supports the achievement standard by helping students describe the role of parliaments in creating law.
Year level

6

Topics Legislation Constitutions Parliaments Constitutional monarchy Law Judiciary Democracy National government
Learning area
  • Humanities and social sciences
  • Civics and citizenship

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Parliamentary Education Office
  • Organization: Parliamentary Education Office
  • URL: http://www.peo.gov.au/
  • Publisher
  • Name: Parliamentary Education Office
  • Organization: Parliamentary Education Office
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: http://www.peo.gov.au/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Video
Rights
  • © Parliamentary Education Office 2014. With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms and where otherwise noted at http://www.peo.gov.au/about/copyright-disclaimer-privacy.html#copyright, all material presented on this website is provided under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia licence.