Here we are, about to dive into Project Based Learning.
The first 2 weeks of the school year were all about belonging. Students belonging to their class group, their year level and the wider school community. Traditional getting to know you activities were aplenty and students were being scaffolded into spending more and more time with the classroom dividers open and working as a year level.
In addition to these activities and some testing to attain student's current levels of literacy, spelling and numeracy students set up their own individual Weebly. We hope this will be a place where students can display their work from Genius Hour and any projects that they complete. It may also be a place for them to reflect on their learning.
Week 3 has seen us introduce our question that will be our focus for the majority of the term.
The Question
How did Sth East Queensland look in 1826, how did it look in 1862 and how may it have looked today if you had been in charge of planning?
Our project is driven by the History and Geography Curriculum. The Year 5 History curriculum focuses on colonial Australia in the 1800s and the Year 5 Geography curriculum asks how people and environments influence one another. The audience will be parents and other students from the college at an exhibition. We call these exhibitions Celebrations of Learning and they are run throughout P-6.
As the question is broken down into three parts, we decided to get students to start with the first part.
1826 was the Year Patrick Logan explored the Logan area. In their groups students went and searched for information about that time in SEQ. Their task was to record information in their Project Journals and to pick their best piece of information to share on our project wall.
To cap of the session we had a class discussion about our findings and came to a shared understanding of what South East QLD looked like in 1826.
In the coming days, students will plan how they will present this first part of the question and then get started on their products.
Oh, did I mention we are going to Tallebudgera Creek next Wednesday were Surf Lifesaving Queensland will run a practical session for us. The session will include a 30 minute Surf Safety Talk, 3 rotations (Nipper Boards, swimming/wadding and Beach games) and a CPR session with mannequins.
This will form part of our project as well as give students experiences to help them write a narrative based on the beach and then a persuasive text about beach safety. There are also links to the Health curriculum.
Exciting times ahead for our students, some who have never even been to the beach as they are refugees!
Nathan
The first 2 weeks of the school year were all about belonging. Students belonging to their class group, their year level and the wider school community. Traditional getting to know you activities were aplenty and students were being scaffolded into spending more and more time with the classroom dividers open and working as a year level.
In addition to these activities and some testing to attain student's current levels of literacy, spelling and numeracy students set up their own individual Weebly. We hope this will be a place where students can display their work from Genius Hour and any projects that they complete. It may also be a place for them to reflect on their learning.
Week 3 has seen us introduce our question that will be our focus for the majority of the term.
The Question
How did Sth East Queensland look in 1826, how did it look in 1862 and how may it have looked today if you had been in charge of planning?
Our project is driven by the History and Geography Curriculum. The Year 5 History curriculum focuses on colonial Australia in the 1800s and the Year 5 Geography curriculum asks how people and environments influence one another. The audience will be parents and other students from the college at an exhibition. We call these exhibitions Celebrations of Learning and they are run throughout P-6.
As the question is broken down into three parts, we decided to get students to start with the first part.
1826 was the Year Patrick Logan explored the Logan area. In their groups students went and searched for information about that time in SEQ. Their task was to record information in their Project Journals and to pick their best piece of information to share on our project wall.
To cap of the session we had a class discussion about our findings and came to a shared understanding of what South East QLD looked like in 1826.
In the coming days, students will plan how they will present this first part of the question and then get started on their products.
Oh, did I mention we are going to Tallebudgera Creek next Wednesday were Surf Lifesaving Queensland will run a practical session for us. The session will include a 30 minute Surf Safety Talk, 3 rotations (Nipper Boards, swimming/wadding and Beach games) and a CPR session with mannequins.
This will form part of our project as well as give students experiences to help them write a narrative based on the beach and then a persuasive text about beach safety. There are also links to the Health curriculum.
Exciting times ahead for our students, some who have never even been to the beach as they are refugees!
Nathan