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INQUIRY PHASE: Sorting out/ explaining

Week/
Learning focus:
lesson
number:
Lesson 8 To be able to write a
paper comparing their
community to others.
To get any questions
and wonderings
answered about what
they saw on the
community walk.

Lesson 9 To gain information


about different peoples
jobs and lives.

Activities/tasks:

Resources/tools:

Assessment:

Lesson 8
See think and wonder
Collect children gatherings, wonderings and
questions in regards to the community walk
Look at a map of the community /suburb which
the school is in and neighbouring suburbs. Look at
the distance in between particular places.

Map
Collaborate in groups- then come
together as a whole class

Collaborate with children about


criteria for writing their paper

Knowledge construction:
Children write a paper to compare
and contrast information found.

Manageable assessment- clear


learning

Compare and order several shapes and objects


based on length, area, volume and capacity using
appropriate uniform informal units (ACMMG037)
(AusVels, 2015)

Lesson 9
Have a guest speaker day where you invite
volunteers to come and speak about their jobs
and/or their lives now and in the past.

Prior to this day, children can perform


independently or in groups writing a
letter to the guest speaker inviting
them to come to the school.
Guest speakers (doctor, police, vets,
shop attendants)
Grandparents talk

Get children to record main points


which were said that they learnt
about or were important to them.
Children are welcome to draw
pictures, record on iPad or write
their findings.
Self-editing- children can pinpoint
out their own errors
Reflection after guest speaker day:
What they found interesting?
What they learnt?

Lesson
10

Lesson
11

To construct a
persuasive piece of
writing

To create a book which


all children contribute
to.

Lesson 10
As part of a reflection after the guest speaker day
children will be invited to share their views firstly
in a group discussion and then write persuasive
letters about what they think is the most
important job in the community and why?

Lesson 11
Whole class reading
Students can create a part of a book about their
community which they live in where they are free
to write or draw what they like and then work
together with the rest of the class on how they
are going to put them all together to make a book.

Interdisciplinary knowledge
construction:
Developing their own persuasive
letters.

Assess according to a persuasive


text layout
Get children to read each others
work
What the children write in their
persuasive pieces may indicate
what they have learnt so far.
Provide informative feedback

My little shimmery neighbourhood


(Yoon and Joensuu, 2002)
Can listen to story through podcast-

Interpersonal work

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