Where we are in Place and

Time

Central Idea
Human migration involves
challenges, risks and possible
opportunities

Transdisciplinary Learning
Mathematics
Number: Students will explore how the number system works and how it
developed through time.
Language Arts
Reading: Students will make text to text and text to world connections to
explore the lines of inquiry. Students will be exposed to various media
such as videos, books and articles which will be discussed and analyzed.
Reading strategies like synthesising and looking for important information
will be developed through the research process.
Writing:
Students will develop specific language to compare and contrast different
media and situations.
Viewing and Presenting and Listening and Speaking:
Students will evaluate the way they present ideas both visually and orally.
They will inquire into different forms to present work.
Students will look at listening strategies to focus during class discussions
as well as group work discussions. They will also conduct interviews to
develop their listening skills.
Students will evaluate different sources of information to gain a deeper
understanding of the central idea and lines of inquiry.
Library Tools:
Students will learn to use storybird to create stories using their
knowledge about migration.
Music:
Students will be learning how music Disciplinary
from different cultures
has mixed
Learning
Books
because of migration to create new musical genres.

Lines of Inquiry

2. The little
Refugee

An inquiry into
1. The reasons people migrate and the

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Boat

challenges they face

2. The impacts migration can have on
individuals and communities
3.
TheVocabulary
different views on migration
Unit

4. Boy Overboard

Useful Links

5 Essential Elements
Knowledge
Students will
learn the causes
for human
migration. They
will study
different cases
around the world
and gain
knowledge of
human rights and
what different
organisations do
to help out.

Concepts

The
Rabbits

* migration
* challenge
* impact
* risk
* opportunities * refugee

*
* conflict
rights
* rights
* aid
*
*
freedom
reform
* SBC: Take your class in a journey
http://www.sbs.com.au/programs/go-back-to-where-yo
u-came-from/learn
* Immigrants in their own words
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interac
tive/2015/mar/24/immigrants-in-their-own-words-100stories

Approaches to
Learning

Causation: What
are the reasons
people migrate?
Migration

Language
Arts

Mathematic
s
Knowledge:
*Place value
*Basic Facts
*Order and
sequence
*Patterns
Strategy:
* Addition
and
Subtraction

1. The Rabbits

Important Dates

Vocabulary:
Students learn
word from the
books they are
reading and by
editing their stories
using the
thesaurus.
Grammar:
Students develop
an understanding
of sentence writing
and punctuation.
Genre:
Students will follow
the writing process
and will learn
different strategies
to get ideas,
organize, develop
and edit narratives.

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* 19 Sep: Half term Holiday
* 26 Sep: Back to School

Action

Learner Profile

Students take their

Students

& Attitudes

Thinking skills:
learning to express
will strive to
Synthesis: I can put together the
empathy and
things I have learned and look at
be
the big picture
appreciation for the
Social Skills:
* Inquirers
problems around
Group decision making: I can
Change: What is
their
community
* Open
work well with others in my
the impact
and the world.
group to make decisions.
Minded
Communication Skills:
migration can
and have...
Listening: I can listen to
have on
direction and others to collect
* Appreciation
individuals and
information.
* Empathy
communities?
Self Management Skills:
Organization: I can plan and
Impact
* Tolerance
carry out what I have planned
well.
Perspective:
Research Skills:
Formulating Questions: I can
What are the
think up relevant questions
different views on
Collecting Data: I can gather
migration?
"History cannot give us
a program for the future,
but it can
give
us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common
information
from
different
so that we can better face the future."
Conflict humanity,places.

Robert Penn Warren