Chinese cultural traditions in Australia

People and places: Chinese Australians

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Geography: Year 1 and Year 2
Topic: 
Local and global connections: Chinese Australians
Traditions
Personal connections to place

Chinese cultural traditions in Australia

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Task no. 1

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Chinese cultural traditions in Australia

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.

 

 

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