TOPIC: New Australians:How will you frame the topic as an inquiry? Why did Australian Society become so culturally diverse?
Overview: Students will investigate the development of Australia as a culturally diverse society through journeys to Australia over time. They will research groups of people who journeyed to Australia during the twentieth century and the reasons for those journeys, such as World War II and Australian migration programs.
Australian Curriculum implementation: Distinguish between primary and secondary sources and use them to make comparisons and to communicate knowledge and understanding of history.
Identify and suggest reasons for change and continuity over time in Australia’s links with other countries.
Communicate historical knowledge and understanding using narratives and descriptions, which include relevant information and key ideas.
Understanding Goals:
Understand why groups of people journeyed and relocated to Australia during the twentieth century.
Understand the problems and opportunities experienced by New Australians
Understand the contributions of migrants to Australian life in areas such as the arts, medicine, science, hospitality, inventions and education.
Planning considerations
Resources(online and offline) Examples have been provided-These can be replaced for those most suited to the learning/teaching context.
Strategies Linked to Understanding Goals
Tuning In
How will you establish student’s background knowledge and share collective understandings?
www.wallwisher.com online sticky note bulletin board, can incorporate media.
Use Wallwisher and pose the question "People have come to Australia from all over the world, for different reasons and in different ways. Why do you think people came in the 20th Century?"
In what ways will you arouse curiosity, foster motivation and thought-provoking perspectives?
www.flickr.com Photo sharing-search and view photos on a given topic or upload and share photos.
www.youtube.com Video sharing-search and view videos on a given topic, set up a playlist or upload and share videos. Private sharing options available.
Podcasts /vodcasts
*Make a playlist on youtube relevant to the topic. Get students to contribute to the class playlist.
How will you facilitate students to think like real researchers and to engage in authentic learning as "apprentice" scientists, historians, mathematicians or authors?
www.delicious.com Social bookmarking tool. Collect and share your favourite websites with others.
http://earth.google.com/ Explore the planet and its rich geographical content and data, create and save tours relevant to the learning context and share with others.
Data loggers GPS
*Use the Time Slider feature on Google Earth to look at the countries immigrants travelled and compare photos of the landscape then, with photos now.
Make a Google Earth tour to show where groups of people who came to Australia in the 20th Century were from.
Sorting Out
What variety of presentation forms will students use to communicate and influence their audience/s?
www.glogster.com Search, create and share digital posters incorporating media.
i-pad
* Create a Glog celebrating the contributions of migrants to Australian life in areas such as the arts, medicine, science, hospitality, inventions and education. Use eduglogster http://edu.glogster.com/
How will students capture and share data to address their inquiry questions?
What explicit teaching, direct experiences or simulations will students be exposed to in order to scaffold their learning?
www.scootle.edu.au Australian quality assured Learning objects enable students to engage in interactive problem solving quests and simulations. Scootle also provides a range of educational digital media and teaching resources.
DS with educational simulation games.
* Make a learning path relevant to immigration, including photos, movie clips, sound files, learning objects and teaching resources.
Performance of Understanding
What feedback might you give to students so they can make connections between their learning experiences?
Students will investigate the development of Australia as a culturally diverse society through journeys to Australia over time. They will research groups of people who journeyed to Australia during the twentieth century and the reasons for those journeys, such as World War II and Australian migration programs.
Distinguish between primary and secondary sources and use them to make comparisons and to communicate knowledge and understanding of history.
Identify and suggest reasons for change and continuity over time in Australia’s links with other countries.
Communicate historical knowledge and understanding using narratives and descriptions, which include relevant information and key ideas.
Linked to Understanding Goals
online sticky note bulletin board, can incorporate media.
http://mywebspiration.com/
Mind-mapping tool
http://maps.google.com.au/
Online mapping including street view.
- Use Wallwisher and pose the question "People have come to Australia from all over the world, for different reasons and in different ways. Why do you think people came in the 20th Century?"
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/newaustraliansPhoto sharing-search and view photos on a given topic or upload and share photos.
www.youtube.com
Video sharing-search and view videos on a given topic, set up a playlist or upload and share videos. Private sharing options available.
Podcasts /vodcasts
http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=3BA44C361453FC73
Social bookmarking tool. Collect and share your favourite websites with others.
http://earth.google.com/
Explore the planet and its rich geographical content and data, create and save tours relevant to the learning context and share with others.
Data loggers
GPS
Make a Google Earth tour to show where groups of people who came to Australia in the 20th Century were from.
Search, create and share digital posters incorporating media.
i-pad
Feedback tool featuring word cloud results.
Voice recorders
Data loggers
A shared workspace.
http://www.skype.com
Make free video calls or use text chat.
Video/flip/still cameras
Australian quality assured Learning objects enable students to engage in interactive problem solving quests and simulations. Scootle also provides a range of educational digital media and teaching resources.
DS with educational simulation games.
or for students over 13
www.blogger.com
Create blogs/learning journals and provide students with feedback.
Search, create and share slide-shows.
Cameras