BELLARINE SECONDARY COLLEGEHUMANITIES YEAR 10

UNIT: Australia at war

Topic/Focus

Activities Resources Assessment ICT Differentiation

Australians at War

Brainstorm: What we know already?

Plain paper, whiteboard, Wiki

Group Activity 2-4 students. Present info about –wars, words, reasons, horrors

Potential use of Mindmap: RF Flow, or MindmeisterCreate a Wordle or use tagxedo

pretest on prior knowledge – paper or online

Audio visual show Music, video clips

Data show,Youtube

History View DVD “Australians at War”

DVDClickview

Write at least 6 responses to the DVD

Clickview

Complete a timeline/ grid

Texts, photocopies, online

timeline

Me and War

War memorials- Student fieldwork: locate and document one in the local area

Teacher sample photos etc. cameras

Electronic presentation

WebsitesGooglemaps

Family Tree/Oral History :Students to complete with support from home

Your family,Your community,List provided

presentation AWM etc

Anzac day Create a multimedia presentation – meaning and ways we celebrate

Texts,Online, videos

multimedia presentation

Clickview videosMultimedia software

Choice of topic or point of view, group?,presentationAnzac day essay writing competition for selected students.School magazine contribution.

World War One

Students answer specific background questions about WW1 for notetaking

Class set Humanities Alive 4.Worksheets.Maps of Europe.

Handouts, teacher notes, set texts

Multimedia presentation as per handout

Clickview

Powerpoint or Moviemaker

Individual choice re presentation of task.

Potential for small group debate re Conscription.

Gallipoli All students view film “Gallipoli”and complete question sheet

Data showClick view videoRoom access for TV

Video:”Gallipoli”

Western Worksheet – video Video Worksheet Clickview

Front and research

Other Wars Australia has been involved in

Teachers to give an overview.

TutorialTextbook reading

Summary notes

All students complete research project on another War/Aspect of War or Peacekeeping mission.WW2,Korean, Vietnam, Terrorism, Peacekeeping

One page report as a word document or hand written, or powerpoint or moviemakerAll students complete test: Australians at War.The class uses software to devise test

Clickview

Hot Potatoes.

Online crossword generator

Independent research, choice presentation task.

Recent events re Wars eg Fromelles

Source and read recent media articles and handouts

News sources Report to class Choice of topicChoice of presentation

Music, Art, War and Protest

Compile a list of songs relating to ‘War and Peace’,Art works,Role of Aust war artists

Samples on intranet,

Report to class Images of protest.Music and video on Intranet

Negotiation re independent research

Test Multiple choice and short answer

Bringing it all together

Class discussionPMISelf evaluation Pro forma

Whole unit task

Onenote All work recorded in Onenote

engage explore explain elaborate evaluate

The e5 Framework:The Teaching / Learning / Assessment grid for the unit documents the curriculum details for other teachers of Humanities at the College. It has been developed using an instructional design model. On a macro level it follows the e5 domains from “engage” through to “evaluate”. Each topic/focus is then detailed on the micro level with a lesson plan for 1 to several periods that flows through the e5 domains. Sample lesson plans are provided.

Topics and lesson plans have been annotated with color to match e5 domains, but note that at any time a process may fall within more than 1 domain eg. engage and explore are often complimentary.Differentiation:We developed most activities and assessment so that students had choice in – topic/area of investigation, working individually or in a small group, and presentation.

We differentiated the Humanities curriculum using ideas developed by the staff of the College under the areas of – Content, Process, Product, and the Learning Environment. See Artefact 2.General resources:Humanities Alive 4 Heinemann 3 Clickview Internet Newspapers – current issuesIntranet resources for each topic/focus Australian Govt sites Defence Forces materialRyebuck MediaSpecific resources for each topic are provided separately to our teaching staff.Useful ICT tools:Our Teaching/Learning/Assessment grid is based on access to computers, the College intranet and the Internet in most sessions. Classes have access to netbooks, and we have planned for a 1:1 netbook program in 2011.Intranet - All topics have resources placed on the College intranet. The rationale is to provide relevant and accurate electronic resources for students as a starting point for each topic, and to reduce Internet access issues. Students have access to the College Intranet at home. Students with netbooks may have the Edustar image with free software.Powerpoint and Moviemaker – for multimedia presentations. Moviemaker for higher level tasks.Wiki – brainstorming and collaborative work.Stixy and Pageflakes – Web2 tools. They allow creativity, collaboration.Polldaddy – online surveys and opinion pollsMindmapping – Rfflow, mindmeister etc. Very useful for starting a topic or revising/evaluatingOnenote – organiser and presentation tool. We use it as a digital portfolio or workbook

Assessment :Workbook / OneNote multimedia presentations.Timeline EssayAssignments/worksheets TestReport to class Research project