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This inquiry integrates content knowledge from the SOSE and English KLA’s and uses Technology as an integral component to acquire and also extend and refine knowledge.

**__Studies of Society & Environment (SOSE)//.// Essential Learnings //by the end of Year 3://__** **//Ways of Working://** **//Knowledge and Understanding://** **//Place and space://** **//Culture and identity://**
 * Pose questions for investigations
 * Identify and collect information and evidence from narratives and familiar sources
 * Communicate social and environmental ideas, using texts and terminology to match audience and purpose
 * Share ideas, and plan and enact responses to group or community issues
 * Participate in group decision making to achieve goals
 * Reflect on and identify values associated with fairness, protecting the environment and behaving peacefully
 * Reflect on learning to identify new understandings
 * Resources and environments can be used, conserved and protected by valuing and applying sustainable practices
 * Citizenship involves belonging to groups and communities and valuing different contributions and behaviours such as caring for other members

**__The Australian Curriculum: English – Year 3__** **//Text structure and organisation://** **//Expressing and developing ideas://** **//Creating literature://** **//Texts in context://** **//Creating texts://** **__Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Cross-curriculum priority //by the end of Year 3//__** **//Inquiring with ICTs//** **//Creating with ICTs//** **//Communicating with ICTs//** **//Ethics, issues and ICTs//**
 * ACELA1790- Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation
 * ACELA1483- Identify the effect on audience of techniques, e.g. shot size, camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments
 * ACELT1601- Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, e.g. perspective, distance and angle
 * ACELY1675- Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view
 * ACELY1682- Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose.
 * ACELY1685- Use software including word processing programs with growing speed and efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual, print and audio elements
 * Experiment with different ICTs and select and use ICTs appropriate to the inquiry
 * Reflect on how ICTs have assisted in meeting the inquiry purposes and in developing new understandings.
 * Represent ideas, information and thinking
 * Record evidence of their learning
 * Share and communicate ideas, understandings and responses
 * Apply digital media to communicate
 * Reflect on their use of ICTs and identify ways to improve their collaboration and enhance their communication
 * Examine values and identify issues and practices for using ICTs in a safe and responsible manner
 * Follow guideline for personal safety and information security practices when using ICTs