Central IdeaHuman migration involves challenges, risks and possible opportunities

5 Essential Elements

Transdisciplinary Learning

Concepts Approaches to Learning

Learner Profile & AttitudesActionKnowledge

Causation: What are the reasons people migrate? “Migration”

Change: What is the impact migration can have on individuals and communities? “Impact”

Perspective: What are the different views on migration? “Conflict”

* 27 Sep: Jeûene federal* 19 Sep: Half term Holiday* 26 Sep: Back to School

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.

Thinking skills: Synthesis: I can put together the things I have learned and look at the big pictureSocial Skills:Group decision making: I can work well with others in my group to make decisions.Communication Skills:Listening: I can listen to direction and others to collect information.Self Management Skills:Organization: I can plan and carry out what I have planned well.Research Skills:Formulating Questions: I can think up relevant questionsCollecting Data: I can gather information from different places.

Students take their learning to express empathy and appreciation for the problems around their community and the world.

Important Dates

Unit Vocabulary

MathematicsNumber: Students will explore how the number system works and how it developed through time.Language ArtsReading: 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 from different cultures has mixed because of migration to create new musical genres.

MathematicsKnowledge:*Place value*Basic Facts*Order and sequence*PatternsStrategy:* Addition and Subtraction

Language ArtsVocabulary: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.

Disciplinary Learning

Useful Links* SBC: Take your class in a journeyhttp://www.sbs.com.au/programs/go-back-to-where-you-came-from/learn* Immigrants in their own wordshttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2015/mar/24/immigrants-in-their-own-words-100-stories

* migration* impact* opportunities

"History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future."

Robert Penn Warren

Books 1. The Rabbits

2. The little Refugee

3. Ziba came by Boat

4. Boy Overboard

An inquiry into1. The reasons people migrate and the challenges they face2. The impacts migration can have on individuals and communities3. The different views on migration

Lines of Inquiry

* challenge* risk* refugee

Students will strive to be…* Inquirers* Open Mindedand have...* Appreciation* Empathy* Tolerance

* rights* aid* reform

* conflict* rights* freedom

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Where we are in Place and Time