War and Peace
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The wickED topics are integrated units with activities from several curriculum areas involving a range of thinking and learning skills. Below is an outline of where in the curriculum the activities for the current topic fit.
English
- Sub strand:
- Transactional Writing
- Level:
- 3–4
- Achievement objective:
- Write instructions, explanations, and factual accounts, and express personal viewpoints in a range of authentic contexts, sequencing ideas logically.
- Sub strand:
- Expressive Writing
- Level:
- 3–4
- Achievement objective:
- Write on a variety of topics, shaping, editing and reworking texts in a range of genres, and using vocabulary and conventions, such as spelling and sentence structure, appropriate to the genre.
- Sub strand:
- Viewing and Presenting
- Level:
- 2–4
- Achievement objective:
- Respond to meanings and ideas, identifying and describing the verbal and visual features.
Related activities:
Social Studies
- Sub strand:
- Social Organisation
- Aim:
- Students will understand:
- people's organisation in groups;
- the rights, roles, and responsibilities of people as they interact within groups.
- Level:
- 4
- Achievement objective:
- how people organise themselves in response to challenge and crisis; how and why people exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.
- Sub strand:
- Time, Continuity, and Change
- Aim:
- Students will understand: relationships between people and events through time; interpretations of these relationships.
- Level:
- 1 – 4
- Achievement objective:
- ways in which time and change affect people;
- important events in their own lives.
how past events changed aspects of their lives.
- how and why people work together to obtain communities;
how and why the past is important to people.
- how the ideas and actions of people in the past changed the lives of others;
how the past is recorded and remembered in different ways.
- causes and effects of events that have shaped the lives of a group of people;
how and why people experience events in different ways.
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Health and Physical Education
- Strand C:
- Relationships with Other People
- Aim:
- Students will:
- come to understand the nature of relationships;
- increase their understanding of personal identity and develop sensitivity to, and respect for, other people;
- use interpersonal skills effectively to enhance relationships.
- Level:
- 2-4
- demonstrate ways of maintaining and enhancing relationships between individuals and within groups;
- describe how individuals and groups share characteristics and are also unique;
- express their ideas, needs, and feelings confidently and listen sensitively to other people and affirm them.
- identify and compare ways of establishing relationships and managing changing relationships;
- recognise instances of discrimination and act responsibly to support their own rights and feelings and those of other people;
- identify the pressures that can influence interactions with other people and demonstrate basic assertiveness strategies to manage these.
- identify the effects of changing situations, roles, and responsibilities on relationships and describe appropriate responses;
- recognise instances of discrimination and act responsibly to support their own rights and feelings and those of other people;
- describe and demonstrate a range of assertive communication skills and processes that enable them to interact appropriately with other people.
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