History is the collection of significant facts about the past that gives “knowledge and understanding of past events, people, practices and ideas” (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2009). The knowledge of the history is used to explore the concepts of what happened in the previous events, while on the other hand, the historical understanding is formed through concepts that make sense of the past (ACARA, 2009). The concept of sources and the concept of empathy will be used and explored by the students all throughout their learning. However, children will understand and appreciate history concepts more if they started to learn about their own family’s history. According to ACARA (2009) that children from 5-8
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In this lesson, students show their knowledge of who are the people in their family and their relationships to each other but they also show their misconception that family is only composed of mum, dad and children. This misconception will be challenge when students learn a range of family structure including extended families, sole-parent families and grandparents as guardian. However, the students who learn about themselves are also learning about their family and through this, students will develop the sense of identity and the sense of belongingness (Department of Education and Employment in Workplace Relations (DEEWR), 2009). The students would be encouraged to develop their literacy skills as they discuss and give information to the whole class about their family (ACARA, 2015). The class discussion would encourage other children to listen attentively and ask questions. Hence, Vygotsky believe that language and thought developed naturally in the young child, they merged together because of the social context in which children communicated with others (McInerney & McInerney as cited in Campbell & Jobling, …show more content…
The purpose of comparing and contrasting two different families in terms of their family roles is for the students to re-think their understanding that all families in the world have the same roles. It also help students to understand families from the other culture in terms of their roles, family sizes and structure and understand that some of the household objects that other culture used can be different to what Australian families are using and sometimes it can be considered as an old practice or not being used anymore in Australian families. Through this lesson, students would be able to locate where is the Philippines in the map and according to sociocultural theory that learning the different roles of family members would help students to understand how it influence their learning and development (Arthur, Beecher, Death, Dockett & Farmer,
In this lesson, students show their knowledge of who are the people in their family and their relationships to each other but they also show their misconception that family is only composed of mum, dad and children. This misconception will be challenge when students learn a range of family structure including extended families, sole-parent families and grandparents as guardian. However, the students who learn about themselves are also learning about their family and through this, students will develop the sense of identity and the sense of belongingness (Department of Education and Employment in Workplace Relations (DEEWR), 2009). The students would be encouraged to develop their literacy skills as they discuss and give information to the whole class about their family (ACARA, 2015). The class discussion would encourage other children to listen attentively and ask questions. Hence, Vygotsky believe that language and thought developed naturally in the young child, they merged together because of the social context in which children communicated with others (McInerney & McInerney as cited in Campbell & Jobling, …show more content…
The purpose of comparing and contrasting two different families in terms of their family roles is for the students to re-think their understanding that all families in the world have the same roles. It also help students to understand families from the other culture in terms of their roles, family sizes and structure and understand that some of the household objects that other culture used can be different to what Australian families are using and sometimes it can be considered as an old practice or not being used anymore in Australian families. Through this lesson, students would be able to locate where is the Philippines in the map and according to sociocultural theory that learning the different roles of family members would help students to understand how it influence their learning and development (Arthur, Beecher, Death, Dockett & Farmer,