7/29/2019 World Studies Unit

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Unit Outline (Weekly, these are not lesson plans, BUT what you plan to cover throughout the week taken from your Unit Overview):

KEY: Whole Class Small Group IndividualWeek

Selected Learning

Outcomes

(AC)

Teaching and Learning Activities Group Structure Lesson Focus ResourcesAssessment Type

FFormative

S-Summative

D-Diagnostic

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(1) Introduction To Edward Hargraves Who is Edward Hargraves?

Listening and Viewing

Writing Writing important information from the

PowerPoint into World Studies books

Edward Hargraves PowerPointWorld Studies books

(F) What do you know aboutEdward Hargraves?

(2)Edward Hargraves significance to the Gold Rush

How important was Edward Hargraves to the Australian gold rush? Listening and Viewing

Writing

Writing important information from thePowerPoint into World Studies books

Edward Hargraves PowerPoint

World Studies books

(3)

Research on Edward Hargraves

What do you know about Edward Hargraves? Create a mind map with all of the information you know or have

discovered

Writing

Creating a mind map with all current knownknowledge of Edward Hargraves

Websittes:http://adb.anu.edu.a

u/biography/hargraves-edward-

hammond-3719and

http://www.australianhistory.o

rg/edward-hargraves

Blank paper

(S) Edward Hargraves Knowledge

(4)

Golden Trivia Quiz

In groups, students create their own quiz questions based on the goldrush

Students answer questions from other groups

Listening

Writing

Designing own questions based onknowledge of the gold rush developed over

the last 7 weeks

Blank paper(F) What is known about the Gold

Rush?

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(1)

Research: Gold Mine Locations International

In what countries does gold mining occur? What are the highest producing gold mines? Where does Australia stand in the ranking of gold producing countries?

Writing

Students research for locations of gold miningthroughout the world

World Studies books

Computer access

(2)

Gold Mine Locations Australia (1800s) and Australia (2000s)

Locations Gold mine names Gold production/yield

Map Skills

Students create a map of Australia showingthe location of gold mines during the gold

rush and active gold mines today

Blank Australia maps

Mine Locations PowerPoint

World Studies books

(S) Location of Gold Mines

(3)

The Eureka Stockade

What do you already know about the Eureka Stockade mind map Details including location, time, participants, stories, etc. Examining the Eureka flag

Writing

Note taking from the PowerPointDrawing

Drawing the Eureka flag

The Eureka Stockade

PowerPoint

The Eureka Stockade songWorld Studies Books

(4)

The Eureka Stockade How do you feel about it?

Students look at photographs from the Eureka Stockade and recordhow the pictures make them feel

Students then discuss in small groups how they make them feel

Listening and Viewing

Writing

Students form their own views and recordtheir feelings before sharing them with a

small group

Photographs from the Eureka

Stockade

World Studies books

(4)The Eureka Stockade Class Quiz

Students answer the ten questions as a class for the online quiz Collaboration

Decision Making

Listening and Viewing

Answering questions and collaborating as aclass to come up with the correct answer

Online Quiz(S) Facts about the Eureka

Stockade

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hargraves-edward-hammond-3719http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hargraves-edward-hammond-3719http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hargraves-edward-hammond-3719http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hargraves-edward-hammond-3719http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hargraves-edward-hammond-3719http://www.australianhistory.org/edward-hargraveshttp://www.australianhistory.org/edward-hargraveshttp://www.australianhistory.org/edward-hargraveshttp://www.australianhistory.org/edward-hargraveshttp://www.australianhistory.org/edward-hargraveshttp://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hargraves-edward-hammond-3719http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hargraves-edward-hammond-3719http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hargraves-edward-hammond-3719

7/29/2019 World Studies Unit

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WeekSelected Learning

Outcomes

(AC)

Teaching and Learning Activities Group Structure Lesson Focus ResourcesAssessment Type

FFormative

S-Summative

D-Diagnostic

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(1)Reflection

Brain storming known information about the Gold Rush Mind map of all the information known about the Gold Rush

Discussion

Listening and Viewing

Writing

Students write down all of the informationthey know and what they are hearing from

other students

World Studies books

(2)Creative Writing Drafting and Editing

Write a story based on a person living and working on the Goldfieldsduring the Gold Rush

Writing

Creative writing focusing adjectives andadverbs

World Studies books (S) Life On The Goldfields

(3)Assessment Creative Writing

Write a story based on a person living and working on the Goldfieldsduring the Gold Rush

Writing

Creative writing focusing adjectives andadverbs

World Studies books (S) Life On The Goldfields

(4)Fun 1800s Day

Bring in anything you have from the 1800s clothes, games, etc Free time and games

Games

Hopscotch Noughts and Crosses Hangman Boxes

Paper

Pens

Board Games

Card Games