Kiwi identity
Adapted from the Social Studies Online unit Kiwi Identity.
Teacher: Peter Thompson
Adaptions for ESOL Students: Elise Soothill
Summary
| Year: 9 Level: 5
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Duration: 4 weeks
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| Achievement objectives Social Studies:
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Culture and Heritage
Ways in which cultural and national identity develop and are maintained.
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Learning outcomes Students will be able to:
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explain how their cultural identity has developed and is maintained
- explain how a Kiwi identity has been developed and is maintained.
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| Supporting achievement objectives English:
- Interpersonal speaking
- Processing information
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Learning outcomes Students will be able to:
- discuss in small groups their own cultural experiences and identity
- collect information through interviews
- select and present information in the form of a picture book.
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Assessment Formative
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| Processes
- Inquiry
- Values Exploration
Students will be able to:
- collect, process and communicate information about their own cultural identity;
- examine people's differing values positions about culture and identity.
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Language focus Students will:
- learn key vocabulary
- talk in small groups to discuss their understandings about human society
- practise speaking clearly and confidently
- through teacher led discussion develop their language understandings. of picture books.
Extension Students will:
- develop their understanding of interviews in a Social Studies context.
How the language learning outcomes will be achieved:
- focusing on
key words (Word 51KB)
- using students'
Real experiences (Word 35KB)
as a basis for discussion
- scaffolding students' understanding through teacher and peer modeling and through using thinking aloud techniques to foster language understandings
- using co-operative learning activities to foster group discussion
- teaching context specific vocabulary explicitly
- incorporating language activities into the unit
- providing examples of story book conventions for the assessment activity and also supporting ESOL students through teacher scaffolding and modelling.
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Teacher background reading
Preparing Secondary Education Teachers To Work with English Language Learners- Social Studies (PDF 528KB)
Teaching and learning activities
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Resources
Published on: 09 Jan 2018
