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:
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
Knowledge and Understanding: Place and space:
Resources and environments can be used, conserved and protected by valuing and applying sustainable practices
Culture and identity:
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:
ACELA1790- Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation
Expressing and developing ideas:
ACELA1483- Identify the effect on audience of techniques, e.g. shot size, camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments
Creating literature:
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
Texts in context:
ACELY1675- Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view
Creating texts:
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
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Cross-curriculum priority by the end of Year 3 Inquiring with ICTs
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.
Creating with ICTs
Represent ideas, information and thinking
Record evidence of their learning
Communicating with ICTs
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
Ethics, issues and ICTs
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
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:
- 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
Knowledge and Understanding:Place and space:
- Resources and environments can be used, conserved and protected by valuing and applying sustainable practices
Culture and identity:The Australian Curriculum: English – Year 3
Text structure and organisation:
- ACELA1790- Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation
Expressing and developing ideas:- ACELA1483- Identify the effect on audience of techniques, e.g. shot size, camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments
Creating literature:- 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
Texts in context:- ACELY1675- Identify the point of view in a text and suggest alternative points of view
Creating texts:- 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
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Cross-curriculum priority by the end of Year 3Inquiring with ICTs
- 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.
Creating with ICTs- Represent ideas, information and thinking
- Record evidence of their learning
Communicating with ICTs- 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
Ethics, issues and ICTs