Tegans Inquiry Unit

Will mining play a big part in our future?

Tegan Macmillan

I am currently in my fourth year of my Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education (Middle School). I am majorin in Digital Media Studies and I am minoring in Junior Science.

Brief Outline of Inquiry unit.

This inquiry unit has been planned for years 8 - 10 in science classrooms.this inquiry unit focuses on the current mining boom that is happening in Australian for the last couple of years and talks about how will mining play a big part in our future. During this topic students are asked to research mining history in one of Australia's states/territories and to make a Ed. voicethread that reflects and mentions things they have learnt.

Rationale.

I chose to make this inquiry unit over the three years of early high school, because this topic depending on what science textbooks you have in your schools has it a different year levels. I chose to do this inquiry unit on mining because of the publicity the mining industry has had these last few years. Many students in your schools could have families away from home and working in a mine because they may not be many other jobs around (especially in country areas). So students may know a bit about it but not what really goes on and how mining can affect our future. By looking at mining’s history in Australia and learning how things have changed from there, we can use this knowledge to look to the future and get some idea of what might happen.

This inquiry unit was designed by using both Kath Murdoch’s integrated inquiry planning model and Wiggins & McTighe’s (2006) ‘Backwards by Design’ approach. Also Lockleys North Primary School’s Collaborative Planning Proforma (version 2) was used to help me set out this unit.

Detailed outline of the Inquiry Unit.

There are 6 parts to this Inquiry Unit. Each part is given below as Google Docs:

Stage 1	This document identifies the inquiry overview, the SACSA essential learnings, the SACSA Key ideas and Outcomes, Eduring Understandings, Essential Questions, Knowledge and skills
Stage 2a	This document identifies the assessment tasks to assess deep understanding
Stage 2b	This document identifies a culminating written assessment task
Stage 3	This document identifies the learning plan, as well as the thinking tools used and links to ISTE Nets for students and Statements of Learning in ICT
Stage 4a	This document is the bubbl.us lesson plan.
Stage 4b	This document is the Ed. voicethread lesson plan.

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Name	Version	Size	Date	User
tegan.bmp	4	216954	11/27/08 7:10 PM	macm0018

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