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Subject: SOSE - Immigration Lesson Duration: 60min

Year Level: 9 Date: 27/08/2012

Lesson # 5 Supervisor: Chris Hutton

Topic: Historiography VELS focus: Level 6 VELS- Learning Focus: Historiography

Historical Knowledge and Understanding

Historical Reasoning and Understanding

Overall lesson aims:

1. Understand historiography

2. Understand that history can always be written from another point of view

3. Evaluate/analyses parody elements

Intended outcomes (knowledge, skills & values):

1. Students examine the impact of European colonization of Australia, including the representation

of that settlement as invasion.

2. Students become aware of the importance of historiography and that there are competing

interpretations and contested narratives in history. They recognize the significance of different

events within an historical context and learn how evidence and values produce different

interpretations of events, people and institutions.

3. They critically evaluate sources of evidence for context, information, reliability, completeness,

objectivity and bias. They recognise that in history there are multiple perspectives and partial

explanations

Techniques to evaluate students’ achievement of intended outcomes:

1. Level of participation and engagement by the students in activities

2. Input and knowledge/skills demonstrated during

3. Completion of set work

4. Behavior in class

Self-development goals:

1. Continue to work at student ability level and ensure they are challenged

2. Continue to use and remember student names

3. Work to time schedules/adapt effectively to changes!!!!

4. Continue to manage behavior effectively

Resources:

Video: BabaKueria (DVD) Video Question Sheet

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Outline of teaching and learning (T&L) procedures:

Content

(curriculum)

Resources

T&L Activities

(pedagogy)

Time

Warm up activity

• Introduction to

Historiography

• Introduction to what historiography is and why it is

important. Explore reasons for conflicting POV

• Ensure homework is submitted

5min

Main Content

• Watch “Babakueria”

• Video:

“Babakueria”

• Question Sheets

• Students will watch the documentary ‘Babakueria”.

• During the film they will answer questions from the

work sheet in order to ensure they pick up on key

concepts and begin to understand and make deep

connections with the situation and the application

of historical POV and also the parody aspect of the

film

30min

• Class discussion of

the film

• As a class, work through the question sheets

discussion reasons and perspectives. Make links to

historiography and why historical interpretations

are different

20min

Pack up

• Revision of content

• Conclude with a summary of the key points of this

lesson regarding historiography and historical

perspective.

• Check again for homework.

5min

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After Lesson Self-Evaluation:

Good Ok Needs

Improvement

Lesson structure

Time allocation

Lesson pace

Appropriateness of activities/use of technology

Overall level of student interest/engagement

Explanations

Questioning techniques

Content detail and accuracy

Responsiveness to challenges from students

Achievements worth celebrating this lesson:

Things I found challenging and strategies I will put in place for next

time: