Research Skills for Humanities Unit Yr6

1. RESEARCH SKILLS AND THE
INFORMATION SEEKING PROCESS
Y6-T2-2019

2. INFORMATION SEEKING PROCESS

3. KEYWORDS
The keywords you use can have a profound impact on the results of
your research.
Before you can begin searching for information, you need to identify
keywords related to your topic. Key terminology can be easily be found
by scanning:
•Your research question/s ( These will be called sub-questions or focus
questions)
•Your background reading
•Bibliographies found at the end of books and articles

4. BACKGROUND READING
• Terrace Library E- Scholar
• Britannica
• books
• websites
• primary sources
• extracts
• videos

5. FOCUS QUESTIONS (SUB-QUESTIONS)
• What were the reasons for and against migration?
• Who migrated from ……………….. to Australia?
• What were the contributions made by ……………….. as a group in
migrating to Australia?
• What contribution did ……………….. (significant person from that country)
make to Australian society?

6. NARROWING OUR RESEARCH TERMS TO
ANSWER OUR FOCUS (SUB-QUESTIONS)
• Boolean searching using AND between keywords
• FART Test

7. REFERENCING YOUR SOURCES IN A
BIBLIOGRAPHY

8. SOURCE TOPIC WHY DID PEOPLE MIGRATE FROM…… TO AUSTRALIA?
Dates NEVER write sentences - Abbreviate
Historical
Events
SEQUENCE events using a timeline, bullet points
Particular
groups
involved
LABEL and HIGHLIGHT important names of people, particular groups in society
organisations. Prefix the note with the name in UPPER CASE LETTERS.
Conditions
in their native
country
Think about how it impacted on their lives: their own and family’s personal safety,
ability to provide food, shelter and clothing for themselves and family.
Direct quotes USE VERY SPARINGLY : possibilities could be a very apt quote that encapsulates
the main reason for their leaving.

9. SOURCE Why did people form both Eastern and Western Europe migrate to
Australia?
Britannica Dates and
Historical events
. Many people had suffered displacement due to the Second World War.
Many people became refugees when they fled after the Soviet Union
invaded their countries.
. 1947 A-ustralian government negotiated an agreement with International
Refugee Organisation to resettle at least 12,000 people
(Poland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Hu
ary) a year from the camps.
.refugees had to commit to working for he government for 2 years.
. skilled labourers had to do manual work – railway lines, roads, working in
mines, harvesting sugar.
. 1950s-1960s and Italy in 1951; Austria, Belgium, West Germany, Greece,
and Spain in1952 and Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland,
the United States in 1954.
. hydroelectric project called the Snowy Mountains Scheme, launched in
1949, employed more than 100,000 migrants from more than 30 countries.
Immigration to Australia. (2019). in Encyclopedia Britannica, Retrieved
from https://school.eb.com.au/levels/middle/article/immigration-to-
Australia/629933#337940.toc.

10. 1. SOURCE 1. TOPIC 1. What were the contributions made by ……………….. as a group
in migrating to Australia?
1. Social . Immigration from Ireland at the start of the twentieth century
continued to be strong due to assisted passage as British Citizens.
. After 1949 only citizens of Northern Ireland could migrate under
the assisted passage scheme as the southern part was the
Republic of Ireland.
1. Economic . Mainly working class migrants at the beginning of the Century
. ‘Although numbers dwindled in the Twentieth Century, migrants
from Ireland played a crucial role in development of Australia
demographically and economically’.
1. Political .The Australian Labor Party- stayed close to Irish working class
roots during Twentieth Century
.Prime Ministers James Scullin (1929-31), John Curtin (1941-45)
and Ben Chifley (1945-49) and much later Paul Keating (1991-96)
all of Irish ancestry

11. SOURCE TOPIC What contribution did Frank Lowy (significant person from that
Czechoslovakia) make to Australian society?
?
Wikipedia Social :
- Sport
- Philanthropy
. Chairman of the Football Federation of Australia (FFA) 2003-2015
. Credited as being partly responsible for keeping Soccer alive in
Australia
. Made large donations to Victor Chang Research Institute and
Lowy Cancer Research Institute
Economic: . Developed Shopping Centres (Westfield Shopping Centres)
Served as Director of Reserved Bank of Australia 1995-2005
Frank Lowy (2019) Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lowy
Economic “Describing himself as a “boat person” Sir Frank Lowy has used the
15th annual address of the think tank he founded in his family’s
name, the Lowy Institute, to call for the nation to reject the
insularity that is sweeping western politics and embrace
immigration, innovation and infrastructure.”
O'Malley, N. (2018, September 13). Australia 'moving in the wrong
direction' says Frank Lowy. Sydney Morning Herald. p. 1, Sydney
Morning Herald online. Sydney Morning Herald.