FORWARD PLANNING DOCUMENT

TERM/WEEKS: 1-4

YEAR LEVEL:5

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: History

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM HISTORY

General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures

W EE
K/
LESS
ON

L3

A USTRA LIA N
CURRICULUM
LINK S

Critical and creative

thinking
Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

SPECIFIC
LESSON
OBJECTIVE

A SSESSM EN
T
(w hat &
how )

Describe the
different types of
people who came
on the first fleet.

Exit slip:
1 thing I learnt
today.
1 Thing I found
interesting
1 thing im still
not sure about.

Historical
Historical Skills
Knowledge &
Understanding

(ACHHK0
94)

(ACHHS1
01)
(ACHHS1
05)
(ACHHS1
06)

Assemble a blog
about their
character using
Kidblog.

Rubric
assessing the
aspects of the
blog task.

Ethical Behaviour

Personal and social

Competence

Intercultural Understanding

Sustainability

TEA CH ING & LEA RNING

EX PERIENCES
(include learner diversity)

Motivation/Introduction:
Teacher will read My Place by Nadia
Wheatly.
A class discussion will form around the
different people who have now settled in
Australia.
This discussion will relate back to the first
people to arrive by ship to colonise Australia.
Lesson:
Students will be given a picture card of either a
convict or a free settler.
The card corresponds to the person that they
will be creating a blog about.
Students will have to research the aspects of:
- clothing
- diet
- leisure
- language
- housing

K EY
QUESTIO
NS

RESOURCE
S

What do we
know about
the lives of
people in
Australias
colonial past
and how do
we know?

My Place by
Nadia
Wheatly.
Ipads
Kidblog
Bookcreator

From this they will create a blog entry entiltled:

My First Week in Australia
They will use Kidblog to create their blog.
They will be allowed to use text images and
videos that they see appropriate to
communicate their characters week.
End:
Students will take screen shots of their blogs
on their ipad, and export them to the camera
roll. From here they will add their screen shots
to their History book on Bookcreator.
The teacher will choose a convict and a free
settler to read out their blog entry and show
the images/videos that they have used to
support their writing.