A Long Way Home

Social Studies Online

This Assessment schedule focuses on the Inquiry Process.

The knowledge Achievement Objective and the Learning Outcomes that focus the Social Decision Making are

AO: Social Organisation 4.1 - How people organise themselves in response to challenge and crisis.
LO: Explain how a group of refugees faced challenges and organised themselves in a new country.

Students will be able to:

• Write a news report using appropriate conventions
• Explain how a group of refugees organised themselves to cope with a crisis.
• Conduct an inquiry:
  • Choose a group of refugees to research
  • Ask questions they want answers to
  • Find one or more photos for the news report
  • Collect and note down information from at least 3 sources
  • Draw a map to show the movement of refugees
  • Write a headline for the report
  • Organise and plane the layout of text, photo and map
  • Use notes to write the news report
  • Focus on how the group of refugees have faced challenges and organised themselves in their new country.

Assessment Schedule for Assessment Activity 2

Criteria for credit

• Layout of newspaper/magazine has been attempted
• Included is
  • One cause
  • One effect
  • One challenge the refugees faced
  • Map showing place of origin
  • Picture or photograph

Criteria for merit

• Newspaper/magazine conventions followed
• Heading size is different to text size
• Included is
  • One cause
  • Two effects
  • Two challenges the refugees faced
  • One way they organised themselves
  • Map showing place of origin and destination
  • Picture or photograph

Criteria for excellence

• Newspaper/magazine conventions and layout followed
• Heading size and font is different to text size and font
• Included are
  • Two causes
  • More than two effects
  • Three challenges the refugees faced
  • Two ways they organised themselves
  • Map showing place of origin and destination and approximate route followed
  • 2 photographs