Integrated Learning Plan |
Learning Areas: English, Health and Society & Environment Year Level: 7/8 Subjects: English, Health and Society & Environment SACSA Learning Band: Middle School Unit Length: 20 Lessons
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The Inquiry Overview |
One of the issues facing today’s students is that they living in a world that is constantly changing due to the rapid advancements of technology. These emerging technologies have resulted in the development and availability of numerous forms of communication. As a consequence students need to be aware of how communication has changed, what exists now and how it can be used safely and effectively to ensure they survive rather than become a casualty of such change.
Getting Year 7/8 students to undertake this unit of inquiry which looks at how technology has impacted on the way people communicate will achieve this because students will be encouraged to
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SACSA Essential Learning | Resources |
☑ Futures ☑ Identity ☑ Interdependence ☑ Thinking ☑ Communication
Learners will be able to
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Stage 1 – Identify Desired Results ‘What is worthy of understanding?’ |
Established Goals | |
SACSA Framework Key Ideas | SACSA Framework Outcomes |
Strand: time, continuity and change |
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Students investigate and analyse events, ideas, issues and lives of people in their local community, nation and the world, identifying patterns, changes, continuities and possible futures. | [4.1] Suggests and justifies reasons why groups of people in societies, countries or civilisations have undergone changes in wealth and/or their ability to sustain natural resources. |
| Students gather, research, analyse, evaluate and present information from a variety of sources to show understanding of particular times or events, from a range of perspectives. T • C • KC1 • KC2 | [4.2] Recognises diversity within and between primary and secondary sources, and critically analyses why and how sources can be interpreted differently. T • C • KC1 |
Strand: personal and social development |
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Students further develop personal resilience as they interpret the meaning of physical, emotional and social change, and their own developing sexuality and that of others. | [4.4] Analyses the changes associated with growth and development and uses problem-solving skills to manage significant transitions and issues in their own and others’ lives. |
| Strand: texts and contexts | |
Students choose and compose a range of written texts which explore different perspectives about local and some global issues. They apply an understanding of context, purpose and audience to their own writing. | [4.4] Composes a range of texts that include detailed information and explore different perspectives about a range of issues and adjusts texts for particular audiences, purposes and contexts. |
Enduring Understandings | Essential Questions |
Students will understand that |
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There are a variety of ways in which people can communicate | How do people communicate? |
The way people communicate has changed over time | How has the way people communicate changed over time? |
Emerging technologies has impacted on the way people communicate | Explain the impact emerging technologies has had on the way groups of people in societies and countries communicate? How have the changes in the way we communicate impacted on what we do? |
To communicate safely and effectively with different audiences requires different tools and techniques | What tools and techniques do people need to safely and effectively communicate with different audiences? |
The way people communicate will continue to change | What choices, changes and challenges will people encounter when communicating in the near future? |
Knowledge | Skills |
What students will know | What skills will they will be able to do |
What modes of communication people have used and continue to use How communication works | Use different communication technologies correctly and safely |
The extent to which different groups of people and countries have changed the way they communicate over time | Use interactive timelines to sequence and show the extent to which different groups of people and countries have changed the way they communicate over time |
How much emerging technologies has impacted on the way groups of people in societies and countries communicate How emerging technologies impacts on the way we communicate | Undertake research - search online, develop and carry out online questionnaires and interviews Analyse data - use online graphic organiser tool to identify key ideas |
What tools and techniques to use when communicating to different audiences | Become familiar with a range of tools and techniques and know how to apply them to communicate effectively with different audiences |
Need to constantly review the way we communicate and the impact this may have on what we do | Acquire lifelong skills that will enable people to thrive in a fast changing world |