Discover Your Neighbors!Asia-Pacific Culture Expo 2010
This WebQuest, 'Discover Your Neighbors! Asia-Pacific Culture Expo 2010' is aimed at students in Year 5 & Year 6, based on the VELS Level 4 Humanities; History.
The learning focus on this WebQuest are;
"Students apply their understanding of culture by investigating the history of an Asian country or countries in the Australian region. They consider how other societies are organised, how they express their beliefs and make meaning of their world. They investigate significant people and events in that country’s recent history and learn about daily life, religious traditions, customs and governance. They learn about links between other countries and Australia, develop ideas about Eastern and Western traditions, and about the values that are important to other societies and their own.
Students use a range of written, visual, oral and electronic sources to study the past. With support, they frame research questions and plan their own inquiries using historical language and concepts such as time, sequence, chronology, continuity, change, culture and, tradition. They begin to question sources and make judgments about the viewpoints being expressed, the completeness of the evidence, and the values represented. They learn to develop explanations in a range of forms such as timelines, oral presentations, posters, multimedia presentations, reports and narratives."
The rubric are suggested as below and each student parcipated in doing the WebQuest will be assessed accordingly. This rubric must be referred to before students begin their work. (see the page of 'Introduction')
This WebQuest, 'Discover Your Neighbors! Asia-Pacific Culture Expo 2010' is aimed at students in Year 5 & Year 6, based on the VELS Level 4 Humanities; History.
The learning focus on this WebQuest are;
"Students apply their understanding of culture by investigating the history of an Asian country or countries in the Australian region. They consider how other societies are organised, how they express their beliefs and make meaning of their world. They investigate significant people and events in that country’s recent history and learn about daily life, religious traditions, customs and governance. They learn about links between other countries and Australia, develop ideas about Eastern and Western traditions, and about the values that are important to other societies and their own.
Students use a range of written, visual, oral and electronic sources to study the past. With support, they frame research questions and plan their own inquiries using historical language and concepts such as time, sequence, chronology, continuity, change, culture and, tradition. They begin to question sources and make judgments about the viewpoints being expressed, the completeness of the evidence, and the values represented. They learn to develop explanations in a range of forms such as timelines, oral presentations, posters, multimedia presentations, reports and narratives."
The rubric are suggested as below and each student parcipated in doing the WebQuest will be assessed accordingly. This rubric must be referred to before students begin their work. (see the page of 'Introduction')
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