ESH360 Assessment Task 1.1

What children are learning In term 3 6S will be exploring how to be sustainable citizens within our school and our wider community. This includes discussions, inquiry based thinking and learning and implementing ideas on how we can make small changes to make our environment more sustainably friendly. Throughout this term, students of 6S will be engaging in discussions and activities that correlate with the outcomes provided by ACARA (2019) in the Humanities and Social Science (HASS) strand as well as combining understandings of sustainability as a cross-curriculum priority area and how this can all be linked to becoming a positive citizen. Why they are learning As much as we in 6S would love our school community to become plastic and waste free, we cannot guarantee that everyone within our school will partake. Our aim this term is to research, discuss and modify the way our classroom and school community operates when it comes to was...

Port Arthur (Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority, 2016) What are children learning?  Over the next four weeks’ students in 6S will be broadening their learning about civics and citizenship, expanding through citizenship learning in the context of an aspect of Australian history. Through the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA] (2019), students will examine Australia’s various connections with other countries and places throughout the world, how these are changing, and the effects of these interconnections (interconnections, change). In particular, we will be looking at the world’s cultural diversity, including that of its indigenous peoples (ACARA, 2019).   Why they are learning  According to Gilbert and Hoepper (2014) integrating civics, citizenship and history within the classroom can promote a holistic way to learning therefore strengthening comprehension and furthermore allowing studen...