Panalatinga Shared Staff Conference: HaSS Workshop

PowerPoint from the 2 June workshop

Some useful HaSS links

Spatialworlds
GeogSpace
AC History Units
Geogaction
DECD Learning Resources for Australian Curriculum 
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
Geography Teachers Association of South Australia
History Teachers Association of South Australia
History Teachers Association of Australia
Legal Education Teachers Association SA (LETASA)
Business Educators Australia

Email contact:

malcolm.mcinerney@sa.gov.au


* The Australian Curriculum Portal

A selection of HASS resources and links

* GeogSpace: the resource from AGTA and Education Services Australia (ESA) to support the Australian Curriculum: Geography 

* AC History Units: the resource from HTAA and Education Services Australia (ESA) to support the Australian Curriculum: History

 * Being a Citizen: a resource for Civics and Citizenship programming

 * South Australian Parliament teaching resources

* The role of juries eBook (DECD Outreach Education)

* Suffragettes site (DECD Outreach Education)

* Discovering Democracy resources 

* Parliamentary Education Office resources

* A primary school resource from Parafield Gardens Primary School for Civics and Citizenship

* A primary school resource from Parafield Gardens Primary School for Economics and Business

* DECD Australian Curriculum: HASS resources 

The DECD "Making the Australian Curriculum work for us' resource has been designed  to support the teaching and learning of the Australian Curriculum: HASS.

As you can see below the resource to date includes a creative animation, broadsheets on the curriculum, sound bites and 'talking heads'.

The Story of the learning areas animation. An excellent animation on 'What is Geography for'. 

The HaSS curriculum, year by year, all on one page in the Learning Area Explorer.

Bringing it to life resource (BitL) geography

The Sound bites 

Achievement Standards Charts and activities (soon to be updated for HaSS F-7)

* The RSLSA Virtual War Memorial

A great resource for commemoration activities, historical research and work on Australian identity in the Civics and Citizenship curriculum.

* Changing Worlds: The South Australian Story (DECD Outreach Education resource)

 
* South Australian Aboriginal Cultural Studies Curriculum
http://dlb.sa.edu.au/tlsmoodle/enrol/index.php?id=83
Click on ACS Aboriginal Cultural Studies course, log on as a Guest and then in the next screen,enter password in reverse as mentioned.

* DECD Outreach Education

Some other useful DECD Outreach Education resources for the teaching of HaSS

Muslim Cameleers website: (South Australian Museum)

http://www.outreacheducation.sa.edu.au/programs/australias-muslim-cameleers-website/

Curator’s Table: German migrants experiences in Australia during World War I web based resource:

http://www.outreacheducation.sa.edu.au/programs/the-curators-table/

iPad inquiry trails to be undertaken on site at the South Australian Maritime Museum:

http://www.outreacheducation.sa.edu.au/programs/exploration-digital-ipad-inquiry/

http://www.outreacheducation.sa.edu.au/programs/bound-for-south-australia-digital-ipad-inquiry/

Resources to consider

 My Place storybook:  a great resource to teach about the importance of place to people.

This posting is just a random selection of resources that you may be interested in to explore as you try to develop engaging and creative teaching activities.

Internet resources 

* Australian history mysteries

* Australian War Memorial

* Classroom photographs over time - and many more photos

* Kidsgeo games  The Oceana game

* Bound for South Australia

* This day in history and history orb

* Instagram as a teaching tool

* My Place in History

* Ollie’s World

* Geography Associations ‘Planet Sport

* My place in history

* Voice thread

* YouTube clips - ‘Guess that Gadget’ series

* Rouse Hill House – Historic Houses Trust NSW

* National Museum Australia

* Google Earth

* Migration Museum of SA

* Whyalla Maritime Museum

* Australian folksongs

* Language map

* How well do you know your world?


Non-Internet resources

* The Aboriginal flag.

* 'Letters from Felix': Annette Langdan.

Book resources

* "Are we there yet? "by Alison Lester and a YouTube to accompany the reading of the children's picture book , 'Are we there yet?' by Alison Lester (2004). Powerpoint on this by resource  is available if you click her 

* My "Story book" collection

* If the World were a Village by David Smith


*** You may also be interested in the corresponding blog from the 2012 class - some more great resources.***

*** The "Fun is OK" posting has plenty more great resources listed (and linked to). ***

The power of story telling

In her excellent article on storybooks in geography called Reading the world, Anne Dolan says:

"While the value of picture story books in language and literacy is widely accepted, picture story books also provide a powerful medium in the teaching of geography. They demonstrate meaningful concepts and represent the world a child is coming to know."

In this posting I have listed and linked to a range of such books and resources that may provide teaching materials for primary school teachers wanting to 'do geography' a little differently with a literacy bent. Whilst on about using literature for teaching geography I must again refer to the excellent Global Words resource from the Primary English Teachers Association Australia (PETAA) - developed in collaboration with World Vision. 

The 'Geography through Storybooks' resource

The following sites are useful to start searching for a picture story book/s to teach geography, whether about place, space, change, sustainability, interconnection, environment or scale.

* Our Geography Through Story resources: Storybook collection 

* A bibliography of storybooks for geography

* Books for junior geography

* Popular geography children's book 

* Children's books for the geography buff

* Geography storybooks from other cultures

* Storybooks on Pinterest

* Here also is a list of books (with links to purchasing details) suggested for the primary years of the Australian Curriculum: Geography (compiled by Sue Mann from the DECD Torrens Partnership)

Foundation
Stella's star liner
Clementine's walk
Henry's map
Looking down
My place in space

Year 1
The great expedition
ABC book of seasons
Ernie dances to the Dideridoo

Year 2
Lately Lily- Adventures of a traveling girl
Ruffy and me
Remembering Lionsville

Year 3
Memorial Gary crew

Year 4
Here is the African Savannah
Up and down the Andes
We're roaming in the rainforest
Where the forest meets the sea

Year 5
Fire - Jackie French
Belonging

Year 6
If the world were a village
Where children sleep

Year 7
Window on a changing World
One well (Citizen Kid Series)
A cool drink of water
Paddock
My Place
Dr Seuss - where will you go? 

Thinking about the reasons why

Related sites to Humsteach blog
Australian Curriculum Portal
DECD Learning Resources for Australian Curriculum
GeogSpace
History AC Units

Let's talk theory for a while
As mentioned this week, it is important  in your rationale sections for your unit plan to refer to learning theories and HaSS Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) behind the activities and assessment that you design. Your text book by Gilbert Hoepper provides plenty of HaSS PCK specific references to consider. To help you in the task beyond the text book have a look at a site that provides useful information about learning theories at http://www.learning-theories.com

To give you some guidance with the referencing consider the following:

Theories behind the AC Inquiry model 
In the Australian Curriculum you will see many learning theories in action via the inquiry model used in HaSS

Constructivism
Fundamental to the designing of your unit is the concept of contructivism. Constructivism is the learning design approach that proposes learners need to build their own understanding of new ideas.


 Blooms taxonomy
An important underpinning basis for the progression of learing and inquiry is Blooms taxomomy .

Some other learning theories to refer to when deveoping your planning rationales are ( I will leave it up to you to check out these):

·       Multiple Intelligences

·       Systems thinking

·       Experiential learning

  Backward design  - particular relevant to the designing of assessment planning.