Who cares? We do!
Teacher Anne Girven, Jackie Halliday
| YEAR
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LEVEL
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DURATION
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| 7-8
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4
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3 weeks
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| Achievement Objective Being Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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| Presenting
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Combine verbal and visual features to communicate information using multimedia presentation eg. HyperStudio, PowerPoint.
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Social Organisation
(Social Studies Curriculum)
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How and why people exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.
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| Processes
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| Processing Information
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Use visual texts to organise and present information using multi media technology.
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Social Decision Making
(Social Studies Curriculum)
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Use criteria to evaluate a range of solutions to a relevant problem.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Interpersonal Speaking
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Talk coherently in groups about information, ideas and opinions, organising material effectively, questioning and supporting others.
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| Transactional Writing
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Write, express, and explain a point of view in an authentic context, organising and linking ideas logically and making language choices appropriate to the audience.
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Teacher background reading
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
The aim of this unit is for students to develop information research study skills - questioning, gathering and ordering information, note taking, summarising and use of electronic resources and multimedia.
Before students can begin some teaching and learning about research will be necessary. We recommend:
Assessment
Organisation for Presentation
- Create a storyboard for the presentation. Careful planning is essential.
- Create an electronic presentation. Each member of the group is to make at least one slide or page.
The presentation will include:
- An introductory slide which includes the issue your group has investigated and the names of the members of the group.
- A map to indicate the location in your community that you are investigating. This could be scanned or photographed using a digital camera
with appropriate software.
- One or two slides that explain the concern/issue and the information you have gathered to resolve the problem. Include graphs, photographs, animations, etc. to illustrate the issue or concern.
- Use sound to enhance presentation. For example voice-over, music or sound effects (as sound file can be large, select carefully).
- The group's conclusions about their research.
The key to the student's successful learning and assessment is the ability to identify and investigate a problem or concern regarding their community and to present their ideas and opinions using multimedia.
group_assessment (RTF 11KB)
assessment (RTF 3KB)
Resources
- Gawith, Gwen. Action Learning (Longman Paul)
- Multimedia software
- Spreadsheet for making graphs
- Database for collecting and analysing data
- Presentation Tools
Follow up
Students view each other's presentations. Students present their findings to an appropriate audience, eg. mayor, council members, other community groups.
