Subject:
Human Socitey & Its Environment (HSIE) K-6

Outcomes & Indicators:

- CUS3.4 Examines how cultures change through interactions with other cultures and the environment
  • Examines cultures within another nation, eg Indonesia, a Pacific Rim country, USA, South Africa
  • Identifies the impact that the environment can have on any culture
  • Identifies some of the influences of technology on cultural change, eg television, Internet, satellite, shortwave radio, fax
  • Examines how cultural diversity causes cultural change, including conflict situations
  • Explores cultural change in their country of origin or in a country of interest

Task One - started in 45 min class completed at home (one week)
  • This lesson will take place in the library to enable students to have access to resources from both the Internet and books.
  • The teacher must ensure that each student has a culture to research and it is recorded so that students don't change
  • Make sure the students are taking intuitive and most of the direction - only facilitate the learning
  • In regards to timing - the teacher should make sure the bulk to the research is done within this time to ensure that teh creative work (the Prezi) will be done at home

Task two - started in 45 min class completed at home (one week)
  • Through the first task the students would have gathered a basic background knowledge of thier chosen culture, this task is about honing in on one key area to gain a deeper understanding about the culture
  • This task is to allow student chose their own area of interest allowing them to be fully engaged in the topic
  • The timing allocation of this lesson is really up to the student with this task - it is completely student driven with very little assistance by the teacher

Task three -started in 45 min class completed at home (two weeks)
  • This task gets the students to critically analyse the reasons for change within their culture
  • They should already have sufficient knowledge about the cultures they are studying to be able to develop their own opinions and ideas about the loss of culture.
  • in the 45min lesson the wordpress should be set up with the help of the teacher - we allocated two weeks of time for students to complete this at home within homework time so that students will have enough time to give in-depth answers.