Term3Yr3.4Tasks

Year 3.4 Inquiry  Australian History Big Idea Question - What is ** Your Task: **Complete the process of Investigative Inquiry below __Sequence of Learning__ __Create a mind map of Inquiry as below in whatever available programs you have__ Activity __Student Sequence of Learning Checklist __ Australia History Resources This term we are investigating our Australian History and students will be investigating our history and perhaps our future. 1. Wonderings - Place an entry into the Collaborative journal responding to the questions about our history. 2. Go to [] and create a word cloud related to Australia and save this image into your folder for use later or adding to your portfolio. || Tuning In ||  || And Sorting Out ||  || Investigations [] THE DREAMTIME SITES [|Rock Paintings Video] Australian Museum – great animated Dreamtime stories (about 5 mins each) eg. How the Water got to the Plains, The Two Wise Men and the Seven Sisters” etc. I was able to play these stories through the “box” but not my laptop – mustn’t have right version of something! [] Aboriginal art culture… (lots of stuff about Dreamtime and an example of a mandala with Dreamtime symbols) [] Aboriginal Dreaming Stories – 12 stories, interactive… [] Possible Dreamtime assessment task??? [] <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Explore the Gold Rush Interactive and navigate your way through the Goldfields. <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">[|**Gold Rush Learning Path**] ||^  ||   || <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Design a video movie collating all you have learned by saving your workbook as JPEGs – [|help document] <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Open Movie Maker and gather photos and images as well as slides from workbook and compile the visual components into Movie Maker <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">If time create an animation using 2Animate and save this as a GIF file and add to the movie to demonstrate a chemical change or change in matter || Going Further ||  || <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a rubric to assess the effectiveness of a documentary movie. ||^  ||   ||
 * Activity || Program || Focus || Checklist ||
 * Create a Concept Map planning ideas and needs for your Inquiry || # ** Investigate the ideas you have in regards to **
 * Investigation for your Inquiry || # <span style="display: block; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Open a PowerPoint and create slides to gather information about key areas of the Inquiry as your Learning Journal. || Finding Out
 * Investigation for your Inquiry || # <span style="display: block; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Open a PowerPoint and create slides to gather information about key areas of the Inquiry as your Learning Journal. || Finding Out
 * Experiments and Research || # <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Use the Interactives and sites here to gather information about AUSTRALIA– place your findings with ALT Print Screen captures into your workbook in Powerpoint and explain findings.
 * Design Documentary –Work with teams to coach how to use the tools indicated to the right. || # <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a Rock Painting using an available Paint program and use the Aboriginal symbols to create your story using these symbols – you need to be able to retell the events to an audience
 * Design Documentary –Work with teams to coach how to use the tools indicated to the right. || # <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a Rock Painting using an available Paint program and use the Aboriginal symbols to create your story using these symbols – you need to be able to retell the events to an audience
 * || <span style="color: #3e98b5; display: block; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">[|Australian_History_Assessment_Task.doc] ||^  ||   ||
 * || <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Co Construct with students the best medium for communication of ideas and action eg. Publish on the My Classes page || Making Conclusions and Taking Action ||  ||
 * ACTION || <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rubric Creation with students - ideas. [|Rubric] [|www.rubistar.com]
 * SITES || <span style="display: block; font-family: "times new roman","serif"; text-align: center;">Life in Early Australia <span style="color: windowtext; display: block; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">@http://www.virtualaustralia.com/ <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 24px;">Life in Australia in 1790 <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">Convict Tales <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">Colourful accounts of individual convicts listed under the ship on which theyarrived. History of Australia before 1901 <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">Historical account of Australian History before 1901.Convicts Australia <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">Convict history and genealogy links. Barani: Indigenous History of Sydney <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">Barani contains the history, life stories and images of many Indigenous men andwomen who have made great contributions to their people and their country. Life In Old Sydney Town <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">Student website about life in Sydney Claim A Convict <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">A complete alphabetical listing of the convicts, male and female, transported toNew South Wales between 1793 and early 1800, giving place and date ofconviction, length of sentence, ship of transportation and some occupations. Australia\'s Second Fleet - 1790 <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">[|http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Eifhaa/ifhaa/ships/2ndfleet.htm] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">Article about the arrival of the second fleet. National Library of Australia <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">[] <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13px;">Search results on convict life in Sydney. Includes images and articles. ||   ||   ||