Chinese cultural traditions in Australia

Topic: Local and global connections: Chinese Australians
Student activity
Geography: Year 1 and Year 2

This is the student activity 1 of 6 of the People and places: Chinese Australians learning activity.

Task No. 1

Chinese cultural traditions in Australia

Chinese Costumes [album of drawings. ca. 1880's?]
Chinese Costumes [album of drawings. ca. 1880's?]
Chinese Costumes [album of drawings. ca. 1880's?]
chinese Costumes [album of drawings. ca. 1880's?]

Collectively view and discuss the costumes, objects and music in Source 3: Chinese New Year Festival 2015 Highlights video by City of Sydney 

Using Sources 2 to 9, students compare traditional Chinese costumes worn in the past and present. They represent the similarities and differences in a Venn diagram in Table 1.