Lesson+1+of+10+Celebrations+introducation+and+Wikispaces+tutorial

HSIE: Cultures English: Talking and Listening Science and Technology: Using technology || The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the unit topic “Celebrations”. Students will brainstorm their own ideas about what they know about celebrations. Students will be encouraged to offer personal experiences. The second half of this lesson will be devoted to students familiarise themselves with Wikispaces as a multimodal text. Students will work as individuals, in groups and whole class. || CUS2.4 Describes different viewpoints, ways of living, languages and belief systems in a variety of communities. Indicators: Recalls information about and describes various celebrations such as birthdays and Australia Day Describes the cultural, linguistic and religious diversity of communities in Australia Gathers information about, and participates in, local community celebrations Gathers information and explains the various lifestyles and experiences that different groups have within communities in Australia
 * **Unit Topic: **Celebrations |||| **Curriculum Link: **English, HSIE, Science and Technology || **Yr Level: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;"> 4 ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Lesson Number: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">1/10 |||| **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Lesson Topic: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Celebrations unit Introduction/ Wikispaces tutorial || **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Learning Area(s): **
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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">TS2.1 Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">TS2.2 Interacts effectively in groups and pairs, adopting a range or roles, uses a variety of media and uses various listening strategies for different situations <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">WS2.12 Uses joined letters when writing in NSW foundation Style and demonstrates basic desktop publishing skills on the computer <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Indicators: <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Listens to descriptions of unfamiliar places, people and things <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Describes people, places and things in detail <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Discusses and reflects upon a variety of responses and views <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Tells an anecdote to the class about an amusing incident <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Responds to different viewpoints in a discussion <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Listens to spoken presentations and responds appropriately <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Uses tone of speech appropriate to audience <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Offers an opinion about a story or aspect of it <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Selects and inserts graphics or illustrations to enhance text meaning <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Investigates other forms of publishing, eg slide shows, multimedia
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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">UT S2.9 Selects and uses a range of equipment, computer-based technology, materials and other resources with developing skill to enhance investigation and design tasks. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Indicators: <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Identifies an appropriate medium, eg video to record a cultural celebration <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Experiments with a range of desktop publishing features, graphics, font and borders || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Interactive white board, Wikis in plain English video, Wikispaces open and a class page created, butchers paper, markers, large calendar. || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Tell students that in the lesson they will be discussing Celebrations as a topic. Tell students that they will be exploring the topic over a number of weeks and the end result they will be making an interactive Wiki. On the Wiki students will create a multimodal text. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Discuss with students what they know about multimodality and why it is used to convey information. Ask students to keep the Wiki in mind throughout the unit. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Discuss with students any recent Celebrations that they might have experienced in their communities or homes. Ask the students to offer a story of one or two of the celebrations to the class. Discuss the differences and similarities of the celebrations. || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Discuss with students why we celebrate. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Ask students to form small groups of 3 to 5. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Give each group a piece of butcher’s paper and ask them to write down any celebrations that are important to them and its date. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">While the students are working place the calendar on the wall with each day/month visible. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Ask the students to come back as a whole class ask each group to give their celebrations and dates and write them on the calendar. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Students will be asked to discuss what celebrations they came up with. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Discuss with students why some people had different celebrations (it is important to support students during this part of the lesson as they may feel uncomfortable discussing events, eg religious days). <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Ask the students if they feel if the school should celebrate any of the events listed and why?
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 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Introduction: 10min __**
 * **__<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Teaching strategy/Learning __****<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;"> __Activity:__ ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Teacher will …… ** |||| **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Students will… ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Celebrations: 20min **

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Play Wikis in plain English YouTube clip <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Open the class Wiki. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Show students how to log into Wikispaces, have the students Wikispaces login the same as their school computer login. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Ask a student to log into the Wiki using their Computer login. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Ask the students to think of a name for the Wiki. If the students do not come up with a name use the class name. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Show students how to add new pages to their Wiki. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Show students how to add videos (Wikis in plain English), text, and pictures to their Wiki. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Show students how to log out of Wikispaces. |||| <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Sit on the floor and contribute to the discussion. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Form small groups. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Discuss celebrations that are important to them with each other group member. Record the dates and names of the Celebrations discussed.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Wikispaces: 20min **

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Tell the whole class about their discussion and write the names and dates of their celebrations on the class calendar.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Consider why some people celebrate days that others do not.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Consider what days are celebrated at school and why they might be. Suggest a day that the school could celebrate and give reasons for its inclusion.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Watch video.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">One or more students to show class how to log into their Wiki. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Contribute to discussion on Wiki name.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Students that had logged into Wikispaces log out. || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Ask students to think of one celebration that they found interesting during the discussion. Ask students to tell the rest of the class why they found it interesting. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Ask students to think of ways that they could represent the celebration they thought of in a multimodal text in their Wiki page. || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Assessment in this lesson will be formative. Students will not be required to hand in any work samples. Students will be assessed on their contribution to the discussions throughout the lesson. The teacher will have to make a note of the students contribution. The quality of the Students multimodal text will be assessed at the end of the unit. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Concluding **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;"> **strategy: 5min**
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