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