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Perspectives

Essential Learning about New Zealand Society

Knowledge and understandings of

-         Current issues of migration and immigration

Learning Materials and Resources

Strand Achievement Objectives

Knowledge and Understandings of:

Social Organisation (SO)How leadership of groups is acquired and exercised (L.3)
How and why people exercised their rights and meet their responsibilities (L.4)

Time, Continuity and Change (TCC) Causes and effects of events that have shaped the lives of a group of people (L.4)

Resources and Economic Activities (RE) How and why people manage resources (L.3)

Process Achievement Objectives
The skills of:

Inquiry (I)

Collecting, processing and communicating information about human society

Values Exploration (VE)

Exploring and analyzing values

Social Decision Making (SDM)

Specific Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

-         Identify and explain how leadership is crucial to the organisation of social groups (SO, TCC, I, SDM)

-         Describe how social groups are organised (SO, TCC, I, SDM)

-         Make decisions that have an effect on how a successful a social group can be (SO, TCC, RE, VE, SDM)

-         Identify what aspects of everyday living is crucial to a social group (SO, TCC, RE, I, VE, SDM)

-         Prepare questions that will identify what attracts immigrants to a new country (SO, TCC, I, VE, SDM)

-         Analyse and identify what NZ has to attract immigrants (SO, TCC, RE, I, VE, SDM)

-         Make recommendations for improving conditions in New Zealand to attract immigrants (SO, RE, I, VE, SDM)

Focus Question: You are the leaders of your city. You make all the life and death judgements. As the ultimate decision makers what sorts of things do you need to do to ensure that your social group will survive?

Activities for Learning and Assessment

Introduction

-         To introduce PSU groups of students will need to Mindmap what they already know about Egypt using the software Inspiration or Word

-         Introduction: show students prepared PowerPoint slideshow introducing Pharaoh software and focus question of the study

-         Introduce students to PSU centre and identify resources that are available to them in the classroom

-         Present Student Assessment folder and explain how all research, notes and activities need to be recorded

-         Organise groups of children to work on Pharaoh, identify organisation of time on timetable

Main Tasks

-         Using simulation software and recording sheet students start at the basic level and move through subsequent levels, identifying and recording what actions they have taken to ensure success

-         After moving through the introductory scenarios, students will need to plan for their ultimate city. They will have a screen capture for reference of the layout and the resources available to them. They will need to collaborate in their groups and make decisions with justification as to how they will set up their city. This is a non- computer activity. This will involve decisions about organisation of social groups, identification of necessities,

-         Students will have access to the class PSU homework page that has activities that link to Internet sites. Task sheets will be used for assessment purposes

-         Collect newspaper reports and look at archived Internet newspaper reports. Prepare questionnaires and talk to recent immigrants about migration and immigration into New Zealand

Assessment Benchmark Criteria

 Planning
disorganised     barely organised   well organised   strongly organised

Cause and effects in simulated city
disastrous        barely surviving     surviving well    thriving and expanding

Development of questions
inadequately structured      adequately structured     well structured   excellent cognitive questions

Presentation
weak presentation   adequate presentation   good presentation   extremely well organised, well executed presentation