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Australian Senate – Upper House Colouring Page
Identify the Senate as the upper house and describe how senators represent states and territories. Free one-page A4 activity with educator guidance and checked answers.
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A practical Australian civics and community activity
Identify the Senate as the upper house and describe how senators represent states and territories. The printable gives children a specific task, visible response space and enough information to begin without a long educator explanation.
What children do
Colour the chamber, read the facts and circle the listed jobs of the Senate.
Prepare and run the activity
Materials: Printed worksheet, pencil and optional colouring tools. Allow about two minutes to print and place the page. The activity usually takes 25 minutes.
Keep the activity non-partisan and focus on the institution rather than current party numbers.
Keep examples fictional. Do not ask children to share household income, access to money, political preferences, addresses or family voting choices.
Answer guide
- The Senate is the upper house.
- There are 76 senators: 12 from each state and 2 each from the ACT and Northern Territory.
- The Senate debates bills, examines issues and scrutinises government.
Adapt participation
Simpler way to join: Read the task aloud, complete one example together and allow pointing, moving tokens or dictating instead of writing.
More challenge: Compare representation by electorate in the House with representation by state or territory in the Senate.
Learning opportunities
Look for civic knowledge, sequencing, evidence and respectful community participation. Ask a child to show a match, calculation, sequence or reason; completion alone is not evidence of understanding.
Useful educator prompts
- What information on the page helps you begin?
- How could you check that match, total or sequence?
- Which part is a fact, and which part is a choice or opinion?
Fact-check sources
Printing notes
Print at actual size on A4 paper. The worksheet is ink-friendly and uses simplified diagrams rather than reproductions of banknotes, coins, official ballot papers or government artwork.
