T.+2+Explore

Explore

VELS Info: The teacher presents challenging tasks to support students to generate and investigate questions, gather relevant information and develop ideas. They provide tools and procedures for students to organise information and ideas. The teacher identifies students’ conceptions and challenges misconceptions. They assist students to expand their perspectives and reflect on their learning. The teacher is mindful of the learning requirements of the task, attentive to student responses and intervenes accordingly.

Capabilities:
 * Prompts inquiry
 * Structures inquiry
 * Maintains session momentum

Level 4: The teacher introduces new perspectives, extending the inquiry and supporting students to reflect on their understanding. The teacher challenges misconceptions through the use of specific tasks and questions to extend student thinking. They prompt students to select tools and strategies appropriate for documenting the collected information. They teach students processes to evaluate the quality of information. The teacher attends to student’s verbal and non-verbal cues, responds to individual behaviour and supports learning accordingly. They provide strategies to enable students to manage their time effectively.

VELS Progression Points for this section: Interdisciplinary Learning - Information and Communications Technology - regular recording of the use and value of visual thinking tools for understanding concepts and relationships in their learning use of nominated communications methods to acquire information from, or share information with, peers and known experts Physical, Personal and Social learning - Interpersonal Development - skills in developing a shared understanding of tasks and team plans Discipline-based Learning - The Humanities - Geography - identification of natural processes; for example, rainfall and flood, earth movements and earthquakes, drought and bushfire Discipline-based Learning - English - interpretations of and responses to a wide range of print and multimodal texts deletion of unnecessary information or addition of new information when editing and revising writing Discipline-based Learning - Science - knowledge of the consequences of change in terms of cause and effect applied in chemical, physical, biological, earth and/or space science contexts; for example, volcanic activity, effect of forces that do not always require contact (such as magnetism), global warming, rehabilitation of mine sites
 * ICT for visualising thinking - Progression Point 3.75 -**
 * ICT for communicating - Progression Point 3.50 -**
 * Working in teams - Progression Point 3.50 -**
 * Geographic knowledge and understanding - Progression Point 3.25 -**
 * Reading - Progression Point 3.75 -**
 * Writing - Progression Point 3.50 -**
 * Science knowledge and understanding - Progression Point 3.75 -**

Activities: RSS Feeds - Global Disaster Alert and Coordination - [] - continued use within the Explore stages due containing topic specific RSS Feeds

Wallwisher - [] - this is used to collate discoveries from each group. The students add to/and remove data from the wall helping to have a complete peer review of the topic with collection of their "important and correct" data.

diigo - [] - this tool is used by each group. Each group has their own diigo group where they collect data that they wanted to share with others. They will also use this format to collect any data they uncover that is related to their "Home City".