LESSON 10:

TIME:

40 mins

Poster Share
YEAR: 5

CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
Australian Colonies
The nature of convict or colonial presence, including the factors that
influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the
inhabitants (including Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander
Peoples) and how the environment changed. (ACHHK094)
Perspectives and interpretation
Identify points of view in the past and present (ACHHS104)
Explanation and communication
Develop texts, particularly narratives and descriptions, which
incorporate source materials (ACHHS105)
Language for interaction
Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social
contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and
relationships(ACELA1501)
Responding to literature
Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate
metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others (ACELT1609)
GENERAL CAPABILITIES:
Intercultural Understanding
Interacting and empathising with others

Consider and develop multiple perspectives

Personal and social capability

Social awareness

Appreciate diverse perspectives

Critical and creative thinking

Inquiring identifying, exploring and organising information
and ideas

Identify and clarify information and ideas

Organise and process information

ICT
Creating with ICT

generate ideas, plans and processes

Communicating with ICT

collaborate, share and exchange

Managing and operating ICT

select and use hardware and software

CROSS CURRICULUM PRIORITIES:

INQUIRY QUESTION: What would it have felt like to be a convict?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the end of this lesson students will have
the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to:
Identify points of view in the past and present (ACHHS104)
Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate
metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others (ACELT1609)
RESOURCES:
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Ipad (With Aurasma App)

KWL Chart (nearpod interactive)
Blank Australia Flag sheet (Enough for each student)

STUDENTS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE:

In the previous lesson/s Students have looked at colonisation on a wide
scale. They have been completing their character summary posters, and
are ready to share.
Inquiry questions from previous lessons:
How did Moreton Bay colony progress into being a free settling colony?
What would it have felt like to be a convict?
LESSON PROCEDURE:
Motivation and Lesson Introduction
1. Explain to students that in this lesson we will be sharing our
posters with the rest of the class, and will have the opportunity
to watch each others speeches using our iPads with the

Aurasma app.

Lesson Content
1. Allow students to go around the classroom with their own iPads
and view each others posters individually.
2. Gather students together on the carpet and reflect on the
different posters they saw, using questions that ask for
similarities and differences across different speeches, and also
unique aspects of different students posters that they liked.
Pose questions that look at there being a general consensus
about what it would have felt like being a convict (e.g. We were
all miserable, we were all starving etc.)
3. Remind students that in the very first lesson of this unit they
started a KWL chart that has remained visible in the classroom
throughout the entirety of the unit. Explain to the students that
they will be finishing the last section of this chart labelled
What I learned. Pose indirect questions around the unit if
students are struggling to come up with ideas such as What
have you enjoyed in this unit? and relate that back to what
they would have had to learn to complete the mentioned task
or activity.
4. To finish of this unit, students will be completing an Australian
flag activity. This activity would involve students redesigning
the Australian flag based around the colonial era, taking into
account aspects and feelings of different parties (indigenous
people, convicts, first settlers etc.)

Lesson Conclusion
5. To conclude the lesson, students will gather on the carpet one
last time to run through and reflect on the unit as a whole.
Students will be given the opportunity to reflect on aspects of
the unit they liked or disliked, they will briefly refer back to the
KWL chart and reflect on the what I want to know section and
did they vet the answers to those questions throughout the
unit.

ASSESSMENT/EVALUTION OF STUDENT LEARNING:

Summative assessment through viewing each others speeches and
posters, and reflecting on their own.

LESSON MODIFICATION TO ACCOMMODATE INDIVIDUAL

STUDENTS:
Student with high level anxiety has been accommodated for by having
an opportunity to view assessment pieces at their own time and pace
through the individual iPad Aurasma app.
EXTENDED ACTIVITIES FOR FAST FINISHERS:
Colonial People Worksheets.
During this Unit a number of worksheets will be made readily available
to Students who finish a task quickly. These worksheets are designed to
create thinking skills related to Activities found in the book.