Session 2 - Belmont City College Year 9 HASS - Civics and Citizenship

This warm up is designed in keeping with the idea of a silent task at the beginning of each session and to link with subject content.

1. As students enter the room, the Creative will hand out a political flyer with one of the following words ‘ - government, rights, responsibility, voting, citizens, political party and opinion polls

2. At each table will be an A3 piece of paper also with the word

3. Students will need to find their group

4. Groups will be 4 people with possibly two groups of 5

1.   Using only the coloured markers you have been allocated, in your groups, write down as many words or ideas onto the A3 sheet regarding the word you were given

2.   You only have 90 seconds

3.   After the 90 second timer, take your markers and rotate clockwise to the next station

4.   You have another 90 seconds to add your group ideas and words to the next sheet of paper 

5.   You can not repeat something that is already written

6. Continue this process until you have completed all stations

7.   You have 10 seconds to rotate between rounds

8.   At the last station, add up how many answers each group came up with based on their marker colour and add this to the table on the board

9. Optional prize for the winning group

1. Welcome to creative habits. Which creative habit did you use during this activity?

2. Why do you think this?

3. Add it to the score for your group

If time doesn’t allow for the above reflection, write it onto a post it note - creative habit and why? This is your leave pass to go home. 

Successes 

• Groups were seamless! They created their groups without debate and worked collaboratively

• Transitions between stations was awesome

• Quantity of content

• Understanding of content

• Strategy

• Competition

• Jacob reading out the definition

• There wasn’t time for students to get off task

Challenges 

• Initial resistence from one person to being forced to change groups

• Time

• Bamboozled about finding groups based on the flyer. Initially unable to spot the difference.

‘Working in groups and general participation was beyond anything I have experienced before’ … Creative 

Sometimes we will need to wait a few minutes for them to settle so that they get all of the instructions. There is a definite colliding of Australian and US politics and an obvious influence of social media. They responded really well to the speed of activities as it doesn’t allow time for off topic chatter. Students were curious about some of the examples given and would ask for an explanation. Today, students weren’t provided with any content yet they were able to generate their own ideas and consolidate them succinctly. 

‘You don’t want to stop them because they are just on roll’ …Teacher