2010+Curriculum+-+Humanities

Chris Jerome Bailey Matthew Paula Kim || Term 1 Topic 1: The Winter Olympics Skills: how to make a timeline key word searches online
 * Year || Students || History || Geography ||
 * 7 || David

Project: The History of Information focus: how has learning changed throughout history?

Term 2 History Skills focus: language about history, primary evidence, secondary evidence, history detective activities.

Term 3 Titanic and other Disasters The Titanic Exhibition is at Melbourne Museum from May 2010.

Term 4 Deaf History, Celebrating VCD 150. || Term 1 Topic: Introduction to maps, mapping and the atlas. Skills: using an index, understanding the symbols on a map (BOLTS), the lines of latitude and longitude, map references.

Term 2 Topic: Australian Landforms approach: In the 11 week term, one class on each of the major landforms, then students choose one to focus on. Students present their project to the class. The student writes a 5 question test on their landform, and the whole test in taken in the last class of term.

Term 3 Central Australia

Term 4 Race Around the World || Toby Dylan Bethany Georgia Emily Rebecca ||  || Term 1 **// Students use atlases, street directories and town plan maps to accurately describe the distance, direction and location of places. They identify features from maps, satellite images, and oblique photographs //**
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 * 8 || Sarah

Term 2 Orientation. Understanding how to use an Atlas, lines of latitude and longitudes, comprehending BOLTSS.

Term 3 Deforestation, impact people have on the environment, threatened/endangered and extinct species.

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