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Session 6 - Belmont City College Year 9 HASS - Geography

by Jodie Davidson,

Warm Up

Find your political party from last session
Which 3 items of campaign material will your party somehow use in your own campaign?
Set up your Party office - chairs/tables

Main Activity

Your challenge for each party is to come up with a policy for each of the following:- Education, Community, Healthcare, Childcare, Cost of Living, Housing, Climate, Other
You must decide on a way to physically incorporate/use something from each of the three selected flyers.
Expand on your policies

How would you implement each one?
How would you pay for it?

Create your own campaign flyer for your party (can use existing flyers to collage)

Part 4 can roll over to our next session if required

Reflection with the students (one photo)

Q and A (allow extra time for this)

Write a question on a piece of paper/post it note to something about today’s session that you don’t know the answer to or a question on the board under the Question column
Your leave pass today is to answer one of the questions
As you leave, hold up your fingers to show a score for discovering something you didn’t already know

After the session:

Planning with the Teacher
(refer back to your original Term Plan document, discuss successes, explore challenges and make changes.)

Successes

They are working with people who force them to bring out opinions
They don’t think they are learning because there isn’t a book in front of them but we are seeing that they are
Learning to listen to other opinions
Learning to delegate (collaboration)
How quickly everybody formed their groups and got on with their task
No talking as a class

Challenges

Group dynamics in a couple of groups are still divided with girls doing most of the work and limited collaboration.
What the kids need to work out is how to give jobs to each other
The boys repeat a lot of the media statements rather than coming up with their own
Some groups still aren’t listening to guidelines

Working with students
(what is emerging, what is engaging them/not, what’s making them curious.)

What is our budget? Where is is coming from? So many interesting conversations from reducing electric cars because they aren’t safe for pedestrians and are not climate friendly to build to taking funding away from private schools to distribute to public schools and free TAFE places. One group wanted more green spaces for communities and an education system with a higher focus on creative learning rather than text books and assessments. How long have we got to do this? Can we have another session? The students are genuinely excited to be in a Creative Schools classroom, even stopping me on the way to class to make sure that we have a session today.

This is the first time I have noticed how mentally developed the girls are … prac teacher