Project Planner Transport and Journeys Week 3
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Week 3:

The purpose of this week is for each group of students to share information about a famous journey.

The students are provided with the opportunity to research a famous journey. The students produce a text account based on the results of their research.

The students use the data and text accounts submitted in week 2 by other participating students to make comparisons of the traffic problems in the locality of a school.

Curriculum focus Learning Objectives Curriculum focus Learning Objectives
Mathematics
  • To be able to collect, present and interpret data.
  • To be able to compare data in graphical form.
ICT
  • To be able to communicate and handle information.
  • To be able to present information with an awareness of audience.
  • To be able to use a variety of word-processing functions.
  • To be able to search for information.
  • To be able to capture an image.
English
  • To be able to communicate with others.
  • To be able to organise and explain information.
  • To be able to write for a variety of audiences.
  • To be able to share written accounts.
  • To be able to read for information.
History
  • To be able to select and record information relevant to the focus of enquiry
  • To recall, select and organise historical information.
  • To be able to communicate their knowledge and understanding of history in a variety of ways.

Activities
The main focus of this week is for the students to share information about a famous journey. Students research and then share information. Students use a variety of techniques to make a graphical image.

Step Title Notes
1 Review Time Compare previous week’s work published on the project web site.
2 Which Famous Journey? Individual or shared research.
3 A Famous Journey Collaborative or individual text account.
4 Publish Our Work Upload and publish the data collection results and text overview to project web site.

Resources Keywords Expectations for this week
Data collection sheets
  • A Famous Journey

Support sheets

  • Famous Journeys

Optional

  • Information books about famous explorers
Keywords support sheet

retrieve, information, completion, publish, audience, collaborate, Captain Cook , Pilgrim Fathers, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Captain Scott, Shackleton, Edmund Hillary

 Most students will be able to
  • share information about a topic of interest

Some students will be able to

  • read for information
  • answer questions using information from text
  • present information in a simple presentation form

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