HISTORY

Planning
Document
Primary &
Secondary
University of
Notre Dam

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TERM/WEEKS: 2
Literacy

YEAR LEVEL: 5
Numeracy

ICT

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC:
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM HISTORY
Australian Convicts and Bush
General Capabilities:
Rangers
Critical
and creative
Ethical Behaviour
Personal and social
Intercultural
thinking

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

WEEK/
LESSON

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
LINKS

Lesson 2

ACHASSK10
7
ACHASSK10
8
ACHASSI09
5

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

SPECIFIC
LESSON
OBJECTIVE

Historical
Historical Skills
Knowledge &
Understanding

Competence

Complete
interactive Quiz
to determine
which convict or
bushranger they
are most similar
to.
Create a Wanted
Poster on a
convict that
follows the
information given
on the 'resource'

ASSESSMENT
(what & how)

Sustainability

TEACHING &
LEARNING
EXPERIENCES
(include learner
diversity)

Students will be
assessed on their
Wanted Posters,
using a marking
rubric.
For a student to
reach top marks
they will need to
follow the given
criteria (reward,
features, last
seen etc).

Understanding

KEY
QUESTIONS

Teachers are implementing the

interactive quiz to engage students
more, instead of just assigning one
Convict per group students are selecting
their own by participating in the quiz.
The students are then learning to be
creative in making their Wanted Poster
as they are given a variety of images
and information to put together a profile
that matches their convict, this will
ensure that know two posters will be the
same.

RESOURCES

How has the use

of PosterMyWall
and the interactive
quiz helped your
learning of
Australian
Convicts and
Bush Rangers?

Interactive
Quiz (Poll
Snak)

PosterMyWall

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