Solar+System

__**Sample of an activity used to support an inquiry unit about the Solar System Task:**__
 * 1) Research details about each planet using digital/non digital resources.
 * What makes a good search? http://21cstudent.wikispaces.com/Searching
 * What makes a good website? http://21cstudent.wikispaces.com/Information+Literacy


 * 1) Use note taking, summarising and paraphrasing writing skills to add facts to solar system wiki.
 * 2) Continually evaluate the information on the wiki to ensure accuracy.
 * 3) Sort information: could use mindmapping tool to categorise information for ease of access.
 * 4) Use this information to write a postcard to show your understanding of what it would be like to visit each planet.
 * 5) Publish this postcard on a VoiceThread using speaking skills
 * 6) Compare and contrast planets - use mindmapping tools

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__**VELS Standards**__: //**Reading**// - students read, interpret and respond to a wide range of literary, everyday and media texts in print and in multimodal formats. They analyse these texts and support interpretations with evidence drawn from the text. //**Writing**// - students produce, in print and electronic forms, a variety of texts for different purposes using structures and features of language appropriate to the purpose, audience and context of the writing. //**Speaking/Listening**// - students produce, in print and electronic forms, a variety of texts for different purposes using structures and features of language appropriate to the purpose, audience and context of the writing
 * Comprehension skills and strategies: finding the main idea, facts and details
 * Skills: note taking, summarising and paraphrasing

//**ICT for Communicating**// - Using recommended search engines, students refine their search strategies to locate information quickly. They evaluate the integrity of the located information based on its accuracy and the reliability of the web host. They successfully upload their work to a protected public online space.


 * //ICT for Creating//** - produce accurate and suitably formatted products to suit different purposes and audiences

//**Thinking: Reasoning, thinking and inquiring**// - students develop their own questions for investigation, collect relevant information from a range of sources and make judgments about its worth

//**ICT for Visualising Thinking**// - use ICT tools and techniques that support the organisation and analysis of concepts, issues and ideas and that allow relationships to be identified and inferences drawn from them.

Also meets standards for personal and interpersonal learning depending on reflective practice by individual teachers, decisions around independent / group work...

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