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TERM/WEEKS: Term 2/ YEAR LEVEL: 4 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Humanities and Social

Week 1 Sciences (HASS) – Civics and Citizenship

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
creative Competence Understanding
thinking
Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

Notes about device access in the classroom:

For the first lesson students will require access to an iPad. If a student cannot gain access, they will be able to work with a partner who is using an iPad. For the second and
final lesson students will require access to an iPad or laptop. iPads are preferred for all three lessons.

WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

ACHASSK093 1. Students are to investigate into 1. Students will be Introduction: Kids World Culture App
Term the vast amount of cultures assessed through verbal  To begin the class students will need their iPads, if a student  This app is a fun and
around the globe using accessible group discussion. Each does not have access to an iPad they can pair up and work interactive world
2 resources (Kids World Culture
and the internet)
student will tell the class
one of the cultures they 
together with another student.
Students will need to log onto Kids World Culture (this app
map that will help
students begin to

Week
investigated and give only works on iPads) Kids World Culture is a fun and think about the
2. Students are to construct a mind brief overview of that interactive map that teaches students about cultures around many different
map using popplet describing a culture.
1
the world and how others live, work etc. cultures we have in
variety (minimum 3) cultures they  Students can explore the app playing the games and engaging the world
found interesting. Mind maps 2. Students will also need in the activities. This will lead into the main point of the lesson  https://itunes.apple.
Lesson should include origin of culture,
historical information, traditions
to upload their mind
map onto their student
which is looking into different types of cultures com/us/app/kids-
world-cultures-
1 and holidays specific to that
culture, traditional clothes and
seesaw account so
teachers and parents
Body:
 Students will now begin to zone in on some of the cultures
educational-games-
for-
food and other interesting facts can monitor student they found interesting on the Kids World Culture App. travel/id988799879
they find. progress Choosing a minimum of three different cultures, students will ?mt=8
 need to research the origin of those cultures, the traditions, Popplet
important dates in the year for that culture, historical facts,  This app allows
look into the cuisine and clothing they wear and other students to create
interesting facts they can find through available resources their mind map
(internet and Kids World Culture app)  http://popplet.com/
 Students should collect and organise their information into a
mind map using the Popplet app on their devices (students
who were working in pairs can now work independently on
their laptops
 Students need to make sure mind map is organised, easy to
read and flows nicely

Conclusion:
 To conclude this lesson, we will bring the class from Seesaw
independent research to a classroom discussion  Seesaw allows
 One-by-one students will go around the room and state one of students to upload
the cultures they investigated. They will need to give a brief their mind maps for
overview of the information they found while researching that teachers to assess
specific culture student work
 After each student has shared their information, students will  https://web.seesaw.
need to screenshot their mind maps and upload it to their me/
individual seesaw account. This will help enable teachers to
assess students research skills and allow students/parent to
keep track of their progress
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TERM/WEEKS: Term 2/ YEAR LEVEL: 4 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Humanities and Social
Week 1 Sciences (HASS): Civics and Citizenship

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
thinking Competence Understanding

Cross-Curriculum Priorities
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

WEEK/ West SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Australian OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
Curriculum (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)
LINKS

People belong to 1. Students are to research and 1. Students will Introduction: Seesaw
Term diverse groups, record information about their need to  To begin the lesson as a class they will revise what they learnt last  This will allow the
such as culture, own culture (if students come upload their lesson. teacher to show
2 religion and/or
social groups and
from two different culture’s
they can choose just one for
poster onto
seesaw
 On the board the teacher will log into seesaw and as a class look
through some of the mind maps the students uploaded from the
students’
individual work to

Week
this can shape this activity) previous lesson the whole class
identity. 2. Posters will  This will help to refresh students mind into thinking about the vast  https://web.seesa
(ACHASSK093) 2. From their own personal be assessed
1
amount of cultures there is around the world w.me/
Create and research students are to on relevant  The teacher will then lead into the body of the lesson by getting
communicate produce an ‘about me’ poster information. students to reflect on their own culture and get them to think about
Lesson ideas/information
safely using agreed
using Canva. The poster should
include their cultures origin,
Does it have
historical
where they come from

2 protocols
(ACTDIP013)
historical facts, important
holidays/festivals, traditions,
facts, origin
of their
Body:
 traditional food and clothing culture,  Flowing on from the recap, students will now research into their own
from their culture and any important individual culture (if students come from more than one culture, they
other interesting facts they holidays/fest can choose between the cultures to research)
wish to include. ivals, the
traditions  Using available information (this can be information they learnt from
3. Students will also need to and did the Kids World Culture app from previous lesson or any other
reflect and examine how their students put resource available on the internet) students will need to research
own culture has influenced in an information about their own culture. Research needs to done on the
them and shaped them people explanation origin of their culture, historical facts, important holidays/festivals,
they are today. of how they traditions, traditional food and clothing from their culture and any
feel their other interesting facts they wish to include.
culture
helped  Students are to present their information as an ‘about me’ poster. Canva app
shape their Students are to use the Canva app on their iPads. Presentation should  This app is for
identity. be creative, organised and include all relevant information students to create
their ‘about me’
Conclusion: posters
 To wrap up the lesson students will need to upload their posters to  https://www.canva
their seesaw accounts. .com/
 Once uploaded students will come back together as a class and
students can tell the class what culture they researched and include
one interesting fact they found out during their research
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TERM/WEEKS: Term 2/ YEAR LEVEL: 4 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Humanities and Social
Week 1 Sciences (HASS): Civics and Citizenship

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
thinking Competence Understanding

Cross-Curriculum Priorities
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

WEEK/ West SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Australian OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
Curriculum (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)
LINKS

People belong to 1. Access information from Students will be Introduction:

Term diverse groups, previous lessons and use assessed on their  Class discussion: students will talk about what they have learnt about
such as culture, relevant information to presentation. so far and what facts they fund interesting throughout their research.
2 religion and/or
social groups and
produce a prezi presentation
about students’ own culture
Does it include all
relevant and
 Students will wish to use information previously gathered and will
need to take their ‘about me’ poster to move onto the next final part

Week
this can shape suitable of this forward planning task
identity 2. Students need to able to information? Was Body: Prezi
(ACHASSK093) discuss and present their it creative and  
1
Students will need to take the information they found for their ‘about Will be used for
findings in an interesting and appealing? me’ poster and turn it into a prezi presentation to present to the student
Collect and organised manner class. presentation
Lesson present different
types of 3. Students must examine the
 Teacher should guide students giving them helpful suggestions such  https://prezi.com/
as: including imagery and where to find copyright free images
3 information for a information found about their
own culture and draw
(pixabay and pexels are quite useful), information collected from their
specific purpose conclusion on how they believe about me poster and videos that will help fully display what they have Seesaw
using software their culture has shaped their learnt about their culture.  Presentations will
(ACTDIP009) identity into the individuals  The presentation to be engaging and capture student’s attention, be uploaded to
they are today whilst also displaying relevant information seesaw
 Student’s presentations must be ready to show the class  https://web.seesa
Conclusion: w.me/
 Students will wrap up the making of their prezi presentations and will
begin to show students what they have learnt over the past two
lessons
 Students should then put their final product onto seesaw, this will
allow for the teacher to assess students’ presentations and allow
parent to view the progress students made that allowed them to
reach their final product
 Once students have presented the class will come back together to
discuss after what they have learnt how they feel culture helps to
shape identity and important information they have taken away from
their research (eg. How the world is filled with a vast amount of
cultures and how they do have a significant impact into shaping lives)