In recent lessons we’ve been looking at note taking. Today use those skills to collect information on Australia’s journey to federation.

In recent lessons we’ve been looking at note taking. Today use those skills

In recent lessons we’ve been looking at note taking. Today use those skills to collect information on Australia’s journey to federation.

Using your OneNote program go to the following site and collect notes on the history of Australian Federation which you will later turn into your own article.

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/federation.htm

http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/federation

When you record your notes in OneNote group them under the following headings:

Facts, Events, Key Terms, Events and Quotations. Remember we looked at this form of note taking in our Interactive Literacy Notebook on the 25/02/14. Remember to look for the clues in the text that will let you know type of information it is.

Having completed our group presentations on the parts of speech

Having completed our group presentations on the parts of speech your challenge for tonight is to come up with a sentence that contains examples of each word type. The one voted as most successful, creative and interesting by your classmates will go up onto our display with the posters each group made.

Today we will continue on from our lesson on Representation. Last week we learnt about direct and indirect representation. We discussed that as it would be impossible to have 26 million people discussing every issue and creating the laws a smaller group would be needed.

For today’s lesson the class will be divided  into eight groups and  each group is to research representation in Federal Parliament. Each group will  complete the two tables on BLM 3 Parliament Research Worksheet 1. The information gathered in the second will be jigsawed with the whole class.

1. The following websites will assist you:
2. Australian Parliament House
3. Australian Electoral Commission

Next create three charts based on information from your Parliament research worksheet.

Graphs

1. A histogram (It is similar to a Bar (or Column) Chart, but a histogram groups numbers into ranges) showing the number of House of Representatives members and the number of electors in their given State/Territory.
2. A pie chart showing the number of House of Representative all States and Territories as a proportion of the total House of Representatives members.
3. A pie chart showing the number of Senate all States and Territories as a proportion of the total number of Senate members.

This year all classes at MPPS will be placing an overview of their yearly planning scope and sequence onto their classroom blogs. This will allow parents to see the range of learning that will take place within the classroom throughout the year. I’ve posted a copy here as well as on it’s own page under the For Parents drop down above.

This planner is based on integrated topics taught over a two year sequence. With the adoption of AusVELS and the Australian Curriculum, these planners are subject to change.

MPPS 5_6 2014 Scope and Sequence

For today’s lesson on Point of View you will need to access the following interactive:

Cartown: communicating a message

If you are interested in trying another example at home check out:

Kangaroo: communicating a message