Week 2: Civics and Citizenship
This term is very exciting in 4R, as we delve into our Civics and Citizenship Education (CCE) unit. Under the History and Social Sciences curriculum, we will explore laws and rules.To introduce this topic, students will complete a STEM activity in groups. The groups will have uneven amounts of students and receive different, more or less materials. This will initiate a discussion of whether the task was fair and why rules and laws are needed. Beginning the lesson with an engaging activity activates student interest and encourages their thinking and curiosity about the topic (Williams, 2016). A key learning experience will be interviewing the principal and a local community member, who has migrated from overseas, about the variances in rules for different schools. This will enable students to recognise the diversity between groups as they actively participate in questioning and discussions with our guest speakers (Department of Education Queensland, 2018). Anothe...