edflin - Design Your Own Country

My lesson plan is clled 'Design your own country' and it will be focused at the year 10s. Students will be given the opportunity to investigate different aspects of running a country with the combination of environmental management. By allowing students to investigate these aspects themselves they are able to use a constructivionist view to education by building on prior knowledge and incorporating the inquiry method of using self guided questioning. 'Design your own country' will provide a fun and interesting learning experience for the students to investigate the inner working of society and the affects we have on the environment.

The rationale for this unit is that there are many opportunities for students to undertake learning about the inner workings of society and the impact it is having on the environment from a traditional factual based perspective. Therefore, this unit was developed using the Kath Murdoch inquiry learning model to ensure that other relevant skills and issues were investigated that involve students in substantive conversation, higher order thinking, deep and problematic knowledge. From this our unit has been designed incorporating the elements of the quality teaching framework and by using the backwards by design approach (Wiggins and McTighe).

There are 4 parts to this unit plan and these are all stored as seperate public Google docs linked to this page. The links are below:

Stage 1 - This document outlines what is worthy of understanding in the integrated learning plan. It covers the overarching questions, links to SACSA, resources, enduring understandings, essential questions, knowledge and skills that the students will know and be able to do.

Stage 2a - This document outlines the evidence of what will be gathered to determine students understanding.

Stage 2b - This document details the culminating assessment tasks for students including explicit quality criteria set out in an assessment rubric. Also included is a self-assessment of the quality of the assessment task based on the QT framework.

Stage 3 - This document describes the sequence of learning activities that will enable students to achieve the desired results. Links to the ISTE nets for students and the Statement of Learning in ICT are included.

Stage 4a - This document details one lesson of the integrated learning plan that uses a Interactive White Board.

Stage 4b - This document details one lesson of the integrated learning plan that uses the Web 2.0 tool of a Web Quest.

Self designed and completed Webquest. This Web Quest was designed using Zunal.com. This site ia an excellent site however some of the formatting options are limited and are hard to use. Hope this is useful in its current state. More pictures will be coming at a later date to make it more asthetically pleasing