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TERM: 3 Weeks 3-6

YEAR LEVEL: 5

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC:

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM HISTORY

General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and
Cultures

WEEK/
LESSO
N

Week 3,
Lesson 1

Week 4
Lesson 2

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
LINKS

ACHHS101
ACHHS102
ACHHS104
ACHHS105
ACHHS106
ACHHK106
ACELT1612
ACELT1798

ACHHS101
ACHHS102
ACHHS104

SPECIFIC LESSON
OBJECTIVE

Create a
Spiderscribe
containing ideas and
images about
Immigration.

Create a pictorial
representation of the
arrival an immigrant

Critical and creative

thinking

Ethical Behaviour

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

ASSESSMENT
(what & how)

Students submit their

Spiderscribe to Kidblog.
Teacher uses a
Spiderscribe Rubric (see
Teachers Page)

Students submit their

Spiderscribe to Kidblog.
Teacher uses a Pic Collage

Personal and social

Competence

Intercultural
Understanding

Sustainability

TEACHING & LEARNING

EXPERIENCES
(include learner diversity)

Motivation- Students watch a video on the story of The

Little Refugee by Anh Do and Suzanne Do. This will give
the students an understanding of immigration through
the eyes of a child. It is presented in storybook format.
Activity- Students open up Spiderscribe and log in.
Students will be required to; choose two countries to
focus their Spiderscribe on, for each country they will be
required to research and present information on; the
number of immigrants per year, the cultural differences
between the two countries, length of the journey, photos
from the county of origin (at least 5), at least 5 cultural
differences (food, language, dress, customs). Students
post their Spiderscribe onto their Kidblog.
Closure- Students view other Spiderscribes from other
students via Kidblog and must comment on 1 other
students Spiderscribe.
Extension-Students are required to choose a country
with a lower immigration rate to Australia.
Enabling-Students access a lower literacy level in
Britannica. Stand for iPad if requiring physical
assistance.
Motivation- Show the book The Arrival to demonstrate
how meaning can be generated from texts without
words.

KEY
QUESTIONS

What are the

cultural
backgrounds
people have
before
immigrating
to Australia?
What are the
differences
between the
Australian
culture and
the country of
origin?

RESOURCES

Each student
has 1 iPad with
internet access
1 pair of
earphones per
student.
https://www.yo
utube.com/wat
ch?
v=fml6dIcfQFA
Spiderscribe.co
m
Kidblog.com

How do you
use
Spiderscribe?

www.brit.org

What
emotions
would you go

The ArrivalShaun Tan

Week 5,
Lesson 3

Week 6
Lesson
4

ACHHS105
ACHHS106
ACHHK106
ACELT1612
ACELT1798

arriving to Australia
using Pic Collage
app.

ACHHS101
ACHHS102
ACHHS104
ACHHS105
ACHHS106
ACHHK106
ACELT1612
ACELT1798

Create a narrative
blog entry that
describes their arrival
and first day in
Australia.
Create an iMovie
trailer to introduce
the story of their
arrival in Australia
and embed it into
their blog entry.

ACHHS101
ACHHS102
ACHHS104
ACHHS105
ACHHS106
ACHHK106
ACELT1612
ACELT1798

Students create a
comic life page that
illustrates the
experience of an
immigrant on their
arrival in Australia.
Students are able to
identify what an
immigrant may
experience when
arriving in Australia

Rubric (see Teachers

Page)

Students submit their

narrative and iMovie to
Kidblog. Teacher uses a
Narrative and iMovie Rubric
(see Teachers Page)

Students publish their

Comic on their Kidblog.
Teacher uses a Comic Life
Rubric (see Teachers
page)

Activity- Students use Britannica to collect images from

both their chosen country and of Australia. The images
are saved in the Photos App of the iPads. The students
use Pic Collage to make a textless story to depict the
journey from their chosen country through to the arrival
in Australia.
Closure- Students upload their work to their Kidblog and
comment on 3 other collages, giving their interpretation
of what is going on in the depiction.
Extension-Students can enhance their collage by adding
more photos to their collage and demonstrating a clear
beginning, middle and end.
Enabling- In lieu of finding all the images on Britannica,
the student may use the camera facility to show facial
expressions.
Motivation- Ask a member of the school community, who
has immigrated to Australia, to come in to speak to the
students about their first day of arrival in our country.
Activity- Students write a narrative blog from the
perspective of a Year 5 student. The blog will be about
their experiences on their first day. They will need to
include comment on cultural differences, including; food,
language, clothing, customs and smell. They will need to
edit their own work and have one other class member
check their work before publishing.
Students will construct an iMovie trailer. This trailer will
be embedded into their blog after their narrative blog.
The trailer will show a brief overview of the content of
their narrative. It will contain pictures, appropriate music
and video of themselves describing the narrative.
Closure- Students will then view at least 5 other student
trailers and comment on each on the Kidblog.
Extension- Trailer will contain some of the narrative print
Enabling-Teacher and educational assistants aid
students with different needs.
Motivation-Students are introduced to abcya.com on the
interactive whiteboard and in turns complete the World
Geography Task.
Activity-Students are asked to visualise
sounds/smells/language differences between their
country of research and Australia. Students then use
Comic Life to construct a 1 comic page which represents
the first day in Australia of an Immigrant.
ClosureExtension- Students are asked to construct a second
page of their comic, using narrative text.
Enabling- The student can construct a comic that is

through if
you were
arriving in
another
country?
How do we
get images
from
Britannica
onto our
photo app?

Britannica

What is it like
to arrive in
Australia as
an
immigrant?

Guest speaker

What are the

differences
and
similarities
between
Australia and
the country of
origin?

Photos App
1 iPad per
student with
internet

1 iPad per child

With internet
access

iMovie

How do you
use iMovie?

On your first
day of arrival,
what do you
smell, taste,
hear?

Abcya.com
Interactive
whiteboard
Comic Life

How do you
feel about
these
changes?

1 iPad per
student with
internet

more pictorial than textual.

References
Australian Curriculum(2014) retrieved from:
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/humanities-and-social-sciences/introduction
Tan, S. (2009). The Arrival. Sydney, Australia: Lothian Books.
Innes, K. (2013, June 9). The Little Refugee by Anh Do and Suzanne Do [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fml6dIcfQFA