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A visit to the Sydney Jewish Museum is relevant to syllabus outcomes across the curriculum.

Community and Family Studies

As part of the HSC, students are required to complete an Independent Research Project in the context of the core module, Research Methodologies. The research project focus could be related to some theme or concern of the Sydney Jewish Museum and its interrelationship with the Sydney Jewish community. Members of the Museum staff are able to facilitate student investigation in this area and within the context of the student's own interests. Students are welcome to use the resources of the Museum Library and, in specific instances, Museum guides are available by appointment, for discussion and interview. Please see Research Pass section on reverse for more information about this service.

Aboriginal Studies

The study of the themes and concerns of the Jewish experience presented at the Sydney Jewish Museum can help students to recognize resonances and develop an increased understanding of issues confronting Aboriginal and indigenous people. Through an awareness of the universal implications of the Holocaust, students form responsible attitudes towards:

• Social justice, concerns for the rights of all people together with a commitment to redressing disadvantage, discriminatory practices, racism and injustice
• Intercultural understanding and appreciation of the cultural heritage, world views, and a valuing of cultural diversity in Australia
• The experiences of persecuted peoples and a commitment to examining social and cultural ideas from alternate perspectives

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

Preliminary Course, Preliminary Core 1: In this compulsory module, students investigate the concepts of health and physical activity and explore how people's views of each differ according to their experiences and backgrounds. Understanding how Nazi propaganda constructed the opposing ideologies of master race (Aryan) and subhuman (Jew) provides students with a stark example of how the physical self is primarily socially constructed. This illustrates clearly why people have different views of health and physical activity. Students learn that health and physical activity:

• Change meaning over time
• Mean different things from culture to culture
• Mean different things from individual to individual, from context to context.

Stages 4-5 Drama Syllabus – School Certificate

"Drama is a form of action in which some aspect of human experience is portrayed: it is an exploration of experiences and situations through enactment." - Rationale, School Certificate Drama Syllabus, Board of Studies NSW, 2001, p4

An exploration of the themes and concerns of the Sydney Jewish Museum will provide students of Drama with content on which they can draw to work towards the achievement of specific Syllabus outcomes:
Outcomes Stages 4 and 5:

• Improvise dramatic situations in response to a wide variety of dramatic stimuli
• Develop situations and characterization through research, observation and enactment
• Select, structure and develop material from dramatic presentation
• Develop own scripts
• Identify issues and ideas (Stage 4); Identify and clarify issues and ideas (Stage 5) through enactment