Introduction
Task
Task 1 – You will create a poster to answer the inquiry (umbrella) question ‘How have changes in technology impacted on student’s daily life?’ You will compare a piece of technology used in schools in the past and one from the present by looking at their features.
Task 2- You will create an entertaining and factual video about Goodna State School using the inquiry question ‘How is Goodna State School significant today?’ Your video will share information about the schools location, buildings, teachers, students and more.
To be successful in your tasks you will need to work as a team and remember to check the criteria sheet as you go. If you have any questions or need help your teacher will be available to help you.
Process
Task 1 – Poster ‘How have changes in technology impacted on daily life at school?’
When writing your inquiry questions, remember to ask questions that help you answer the main inquiry question and will help you complete your poster.
Choose a piece of technology used in schools today and the piece of technology it was inspired by. Ensure you have a different piece of technology to the other groups. Your teacher may help you vote on which pieces of technology each team will research.
Resources
Type writer and computer
Chalk board and interactive whiteboard
Slate & chalk and exercise book
Metal lunch box and insulated lunch box
Abacus and calculator
Word bank – the word bank has a list of adjectives that you can use when you describe the features of your objects and to show a comparison.
Task 2 – Video ‘How is Goodna State School is a significant site today?’
When writing your inquiry questions, remember to ask questions that help you answer the main inquiry question and will help you complete your poster.
Note taking template (hyperlinked and picture)
You may also like to use the note taking template to help you write your script for the video you will create with your team.
Below are different sources of information you can use to take your notes.
Classification –
Where
When
Visit the Office
Goodna State School 125 Years Aniversary Magazine (Purple Book) - pages 4, 7, 8, 9,
Why
Buildings –
Borrow an iPad from your teacher. Using the QR code reader look for QR images to scan. This will open videos and articles for you to look at and take notes.
Teachers/Principals
Visit the office
Goodna State School 125 Years Aniversary Magazine (Purple Book) - pages 5, 10, 13
Student life
Goodna State School Q150 video
Interesting fact
Goodna State School 125 Years Aniversary Magazine (Purple Book) - pages 11, 12
Check back on the reources in other areas. Was there something interesting you saw, read or heard that doesn't fit into your presentation?
Evaluation
| Historical knowledge and understanding | Questioning and researching | Analysing and interpreting | |
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Evaluated the impact of changing technology on student life |
Poses questions about the impact of changing technology | Identifies impact of change | A |
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Explained why features have changed |
Poses questions about similarities and differences |
B | |
| Identify how some features have changed while others have stayed the same | Poses questions about the past | Compares objects from the past and present | C |
| Identifies changes | uses question starters | Describes and object | D |
| List things that have stayed the same | states a question | Lists Features | E |
| Historical knowledge and understanding | Questions and researching | Analysing and interpreting | Communicating | |
| Gives reasons why the site is significant today | Develops questions about the significance of the site | Select and uses a range of sources to explain the significance of a site | Creates a logical presentations using historical terms relating to time | A |
| Explains what the site reveals about the past | Poses questions about the heritage of a site | Identifies information in sources about the heritage of a site | Uses sources such as photos and maps as evidence of significance | B |
| Deescribes a site of significance in the local community | Poses questions about the past | Uses sources provided to answer posed questions | Develops a story about the past using range of texts | C |
| Identifies a site of significance | Lits questins about a site | Locates information in a source | States features of a local site of significance | D |
| States facts about a site in the local community | Makes a comment | Names a source | States an aspect of the site | E |
Conclusion
Credits
Resources used in this webquest include -
Go Animate - to create videos of Luke Researching
Youtube - to access the wonderful videos made by Tom Macey and to host privatly host the video interviews
Kidzsearch - for save searching of images
Mrs Macey (and student interveiwers)- interview videos
Goodna State School 125 year Anniversary Magazine - to allow for real book research
Goodna State School grounds - to allow real world investigation
Teacher Page
The school history webquest was designed as an assessment inquiry allowing students to use prior knowledge from both unit 1 (Exploring the impact of changing technology on people’s lives) and unit 2 (Exploring my local community) of the Year 2 History curriculum and continue to use their developing researching skills to create a poster and multimedia presentation.