Lesson Plans at Your Fingertips and Content Curation Tools

Smart Hints & Tips 13
Lesson plans at your fingertips:
Humanities and Social Sciences
Content curation tools:
Building a digital collection
Dr Jennie Bales
Adjunct Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
Karen Bonanno
Founder, Eduwebinar Pty Ltd
© EDUWEBINAR PTY LTD | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Introduction
Adjunct lecturer for Charles
Sturt University in the School of
Information Studies.
Research project with
colleagues at CSU on e-book take
up in Australian schools.
Regularly presents on
resourcing the Australian
Curriculum

Introduction
Over 30 years’ in K-12 school
education
Teacher, teacher librarian, school
administration, consultant
Face-to-face > Virtual
Professional Learning
International, national, state and local
presenter experience
Karen Bonanno

Housekeeping
• Disclaimer
– The views and opinions are those of the presenter and are
provided as general information which will require further
research to identify the application of the specific
requirements to the participant.
• Restrictions
– Eduwebinar Pty Ltd does NOT give permission for any
capture, recording or reproduction of this webinar in any
format.

Lesson plans at your fingertips
This presentation introduces a selection of
quality web sites where exemplary lessons and
units of work have been developed to directly
address content outlined in the recently
repackaged Humanities and Social Sciences
Curriculum.

Humanities & Social Science
Current
• History
• Geography
Awaiting final endorsement
• Economics and Business
• Civics and Citizenship

Curriculum support
• Australian Curriculum
– http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/
– Organise layout to aid continuum development
– Portfolio work samples (pdf files at the end of each year
level provide ideas for the development of units of work
(backward planning).
Jennie Bales © EDUWEBINAR PTY LTD | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
21/7/14

Australian History Curriculum
• http://www.achistoryunits.edu.au/

Year 6
Federation
• Tabs at the top:
– Overview
– Learning sequences
• Tabs on right to:
– Unit plan
– Student map of MI & B
activities
– Teacher planner of MI &
B activities

Australian Curriculum Lesson Plans
• http://www.australiancurriculumlessons.com.au/
• English, Mathematics, Science, History, Art
• Drop down menus for each Year level
• Advertisements

History Lessons
•Summary of lesson
•Australian Curriculum links
•Lesson plan sequence or series
•Assessment
•Resources

Scootle
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/p/home
General search.
• Tasmanian history
– Refine search by Curriculum area, Year level,
resource type. E.g. search for ‘Teacher
resource’ to locate lesson plans
Jennie Bales 21/7/14

ABC Splash
• http://splash.abc.net.au/home
Jennie Bales © EDUWEBINAR PTY LTD | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
21/7/14

ABC Splash

GeogSpace
Jennie Bales
1
5
• http://www.geogspace.edu.au/
• Australian Geography Teachers’ Association
November 20, 2014

Asia Education Foundation
Jennie Bales
1
6
• http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au
• Content located under the Curriculum Resources tab by
subject, including History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship
(and Economics Business)
• Curated digital resources organised by year levels
• Some housed within Scootle
• Provides learning sequences
November 20, 2014

Civics and Citizenship Education
http://www.civicsandcitizenship.edu.au/cce/
•For Teachers
•Teaching and
Learning Activities
Other websites
•Discover
Democracy
•Parliament@Work

Parliamentary Education Office
• http://www.peo.gov.au/
• Teaching tab
– Kidsview (interactives)
– Role play lesson plans
– Parliamentary lesson plans
• Comprehensive Year 6 unit
• Multimedia
– Videos and images
• Learning
– Federal Parliamentary Timeline
Jennie Bales 21/7/14

Which one of these
resources was most
relevant for directly
addressing your teaching
needs? What were its
most useful features?
Do you know of another
web resource that
provides lesson plans in
the Social Sciences that
your fellow participants
may be interested in?

Jennie Bales
email: jenbales@iprimus.com.au
twitter: @JennieBales
skype: jennieb252

Information hydrant by Will Lion https://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/

Content Curation
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2221068/If-You-Cant-Be-a-Creator-Then-Be-a-Curator
Find
Select
List
Organise
Share

Top Five Popular Tools
https://www.diigo.com/
http://list.ly/
http://www.livebinders.com/welcome/home
https://www.pinterest.com/
http://www.scoop.it/
…and
there is
more !!

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/55-content-curation-tools-to-discover-and-share-digital-
content/
Select and
integrate
“Work
smarter”
Follow
Share
Collaborate

Content Curation Survey 2014
http://www.slideshare.net/christianpuricelli/curation-survey-infografic/

Search results

http://www.scoop.it/t/curriculum-resource-reviews

http://www.scoop.it/t/australian-curriculum-resources

Set up keywords
Consider suggestions
Scoop re-scoop
Integrate

Search results
Last activity
Types of items
Most active members
Profile

https://groups.diigo.com/group/australianhistorycurriculum

Apply filters

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