National Education Project MFK Hwa Chong Institution.

National EducationProject MFK

Hwa Chong Institution

Introduction

We want to:Arouse interest in Geography (of social studies) and National Education(A) Supplement primary school sciences and going more in-depth for social studies to help them have an understanding of why Man study the environment and why is it so important to study about it (B) Supplement National Education teaching in primary school by fulfilling the purpose of National Education: Knowing the Singapore story -- how Singapore succeeded against the odds to become a nation; by understanding Singapore's unique challenges, constraints and vulnerabilities, which make us different from other countries

Raise awareness about going green through geography

What is National Education?

• Purpose:– Foster sense of identity, pride and self-

respect as Singaporeans– Knowing the Singapore story – how

Singapore succeeded against odds to become a nation

– Understand Singapore’s unique challenges, constraints and vulnerabilities

– Instill core values of our way of life, the will to prevail

Road to Nationhood: What happened?

• Awakening: 1942 - 1945– Surrender of Singapore by British

marked the start of Japanese Occupation after WWII, a period of harsh and cruel rule for Singaporeans

– People started to have beliefs for fighting for the rights of their nation


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Road to Nationhood: Challenges

• Year of Strikes: 1947– While recovering from war, Singapore faced

shortages in employment and housing– People became dissatisfied with British

when they felt that they did not do enough to improve the situation

– Strikes and riots were organized by communists to stir up trouble

– People had to face both poverty and political instability when living conditions worsened


• Year of Strikes: 1947


• Communist Terror: 1954 - 1955– To gain power, communists in Singapore

convinced Chinese students and workers to create disorder to end British rule in an effort to create communist states in S.E.A.

– Strikes and riots were organized to force government to give in to their demands

– These communist activities affected business and put innocent lives at risk


• Communist Terror: 1954 - 1955


• Limited self-government: 1955– People of Singapore wanted

independence but British thought otherwise

– Firstly, Singapore did not have large-scale industries or agriculture to support population. Secondly, British were worried that the communists will come to rule Singapore if independence was granted. Lastly, British wanted to maintain Singapore as their military base and commercial center in S.E.A.


• Limited self-government: 1955


• Becoming a State: 1959– An election was held to prepare

Singapore for self-internal government, with PAP winning it and leading the newly-formed government

– However, Singapore was still dependent on British in areas such as defense


• Becoming a State: 1959


• Towards Merger: 1961 - 1963– Malaya agreed to merge with

Singapore as she realized that her progress could be affected by the unstable situation in Singapore

– Thus the formation of the Federation of Malaysia was proposed


• Towards Merger: 1961 - 1963


• Opposition to Merger: 1963– Indonesia and Philippines objected to

merger because it proposed to include territories that they thought belonged to them

– Indonesia: Commandos and saboteurs were sent to Malaysia to create disorder; Trade banned

– Philippines: Broke off diplomatic ties with Malaysia


• Opposition to Merger: 1963


• Race Riots: 1964– Resulted from conflict between Federation

and Singapore– Extreme members of Federation encouraged

negative feelings towards Singapore’s government and tension between Malays and Chinese rose

– A fight which broke out between them caused a series of island-wide race riots

– State of Emergency declared and troops from Federation were called in to restore peace


• Race Riots: 1964


• Independence: 1964– Federation and Singapore disagreed

over economic matters, and along with the unrest from race riots, the issues could not be resolved

– Singapore separated from Malaysia and became an independent state finally


• Independence: 1964

Let the lesson begin! (NE)

• You have 12 minutes• You can go to other resources after you have completed yours• Download your resources from the Wikispace accordingly to

your group• Cameraman will call you up for photo-taking during this time

Register Numbers

Group Resource

1-6 A MI Test

7-12 B Worksheet

13-18 C Story

19-24 D Videos

25-30 E Survey

31-36 F Board game

37-42 G Forum

Note to trainer: Use either this lesson plan or the next one.

Let the lesson begin! (NE)

• You have 12 minutes• You can go to other resources after you have completed yours• Download your resources from the Wikispace accordingly to

your group• Cameraman will call you up for photo-taking during this time

Register Numbers

Group Resource

1-3 A MI Test

4-6 B Worksheet

7-9 C Story

10-12 D Videos

13-15 E Survey

16-18 F Board game

19-21 G Forum

Note to trainer: Use either this lesson plan or the previous one.

End of lesson! (NE)

• Please try to complete your work by 2 minutes left

• Please return to your seats and wait for further instructions from instructor

• After 15 minutes, cameraman from other class will take a class photo for you and your facilitators

• Please proceed to next computer lab for next lesson!

Bibliography

• Thefallof-singapore.blogspot.com• Mistahfairoz.glogster.com• Withoneweunite.blogspot.com• Wikipedia• MHA• Thinkquest

National Education Project MFK Hwa Chong Institution.

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