Project Plan
Teaching area: Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) Syllabus: History Year level: Year 7
Student task:
Project end-product: A 10 minute PowerPoint presentation about a specific aspect of Ancient Roman life.
Project presentation space: Smartboard presentation to the whole class and classmates will complete the quiz questions on the last slide of the PowerPoint presenatation to check their understanding of each topic.
Key concepts:
Students develop their historical understanding through key concepts, including: evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathy, significance and contestability. These concepts are investigated within the historical context of how we know about the ancient past, and why and where the earliest societies developed.
Skills:
Questioning and researching, analysing, evaluating, communicating and reflecting
Curriculum:
ACDSEH039 - The significant beliefs, values, practices of the ancient Romans, with a particular emphasis on one of the following areas: Everyday life, death and funerary customs.
Depth study 2: Investigating one ancient society (Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China)
The physical features and how they influenced the civilisation that developed there (ACDSEH002;ACDSEH003; ACDSEH004; ACDSEH005; ACDSEH006)
More info...
Student task:
Project end-product: A 10 minute PowerPoint presentation about a specific aspect of Ancient Roman life.
Project presentation space: Smartboard presentation to the whole class and classmates will complete the quiz questions on the last slide of the PowerPoint presenatation to check their understanding of each topic.
Key concepts:
Students develop their historical understanding through key concepts, including: evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathy, significance and contestability. These concepts are investigated within the historical context of how we know about the ancient past, and why and where the earliest societies developed.
Skills:
Questioning and researching, analysing, evaluating, communicating and reflecting
Curriculum:
ACDSEH039 - The significant beliefs, values, practices of the ancient Romans, with a particular emphasis on one of the following areas: Everyday life, death and funerary customs.
Depth study 2: Investigating one ancient society (Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China)
The physical features and how they influenced the civilisation that developed there (ACDSEH002;ACDSEH003; ACDSEH004; ACDSEH005; ACDSEH006)
More info...
- HaSS ways of teaching (scsa.wa.edu.au)
- HASS ways of assessing (scsa.wa.edu.au)
Learning sequence & resources
1. Explain task, allocate groups (3 - 4 people), determine research topics for each group
- List of research topics
- Scaffolding worksheet for brainstorming focus questions
- Student activity: Brainstorm focus questions
2. Arrange access to library books and computers for Internet searches.
Example books:
Example books:
- DK Pocket Eyewitness Ancient Egypt, packed with bite-sized chunks of information that will encourage and inform even the most reluctant readers.
- DK Eyewitness Ancient Rome is a spectacular and informative guide to one of history's greatest civilizations, the Romans, their conquests and achievements that have shaped modern society.
- Ancient Rome - Teacher support materials and student resources relevant to the depth study of Ancient Roman society in the Australian Curriculum: History. (Museum Victoria)
- Student activity: Research information based on focus questions
3. Consolidate and share student knowledge and understanding from the research with whole class whiteboard activities on a Smartboard or LED screen.
- Student activity: 3D interactive panoramas: The Roman Colosseum. Ask one student to drive the panorama and ask students what they can see. Example prompt questions: Are the people Ancient Romans? (No). How can you tell? (Cameras and modern clothes)
4. Show students an example of a completed PowerPoint presentation with quiz questions (exemplar)
- Free PowerPoint templates - Ancient Rome (Mr Donn's Social Studies site)
- PowerPoint Resources (Technology resource teacher, 2005)
- PowerPoint - How to add hyperlinks to your quiz questions to indicate if the answer selected was right or wrong
- Student activity: Students create presentations and quiz questions
Exemplar-Yr7-ancientrome-hyperlinks.ppt | |
File Size: | 336 kb |
File Type: | ppt |
5. Students deliver presentations on Smartboard to classmates
- Student activity: Upload PowerPoint files to a class shared folder so that they can be accessed from the computer connected to the Smartboard. Alternatively: Use a Google Drive, Dropbox or Evernote folder or put them on a USB key
- Student activity: Use the marking rubric to assess each groups PowerPoint presentation and quiz questions.
Assessment - add a copy of a presentation marking rubric here
Other potential resources
- Video: Discover Ancient Rome in Google Earth
- Scootle: A Content discovery portal for teachers with over 16,000 teaching resources. It has a range of educational resources for use with electronic whiteboards.