Success Criteria:

• Outline key events from Australia’s sporting history

• Discuss the changes of specific sporting groups over time

• Analyse changes in Australian sport that shape identity

Activities

1. Students download and save a copy of the Student Copy - The History Of Sport In Australia Google Document to their Issues in Physical Activity and Sport folder.

2. Research specific periods of time from European settlement until the present and investigate the nature and role of sports within that time period. Students place this in the given table to create a timeline of Australian’s sport.

3. Students use their completed timeline to respond to the following questions:

• • • Looking at your timeline, identify which issue/change you consider the single most important in the history of Australian Sport? Why?

    • Identify how sport can contribute to our local and national identity.

    • What group out of the following do you think has achieved the biggest change over time? (Highlight)

- Women

- People with a disability

- ATSI

- The Aged

- Young People

Why do you think this is the case?