Differentiation in Hass Curriculum Year 7

DIFFERENTIATION IN HASS CURRICULUM – YEAR 7

All students are entitled to rigorous, relevant and engaging learning programs drawn from the Western Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences. Teachers take account of the range of their students' current levels of learning, strengths, goals and interests and make adjustments where necessary. In order to cater for the diverse needs of students across Western Australia and to personalise their learning, the skills required in understanding the curriculum content differ in each course. These skills will be the focus of lesson activities and assessments in each course.

In Year 7 Course 1, the building of key skills of Questioning and Researching and Communicating and Reflecting are the focus of lessons and assessment. These skills are:

 Identify current understandings to consider possible gaps and/or misconceptions, new knowledge needed and challenges to personal perspectives  Identify differences in terms of origin and purpose between primary sources (e.g. a cartoon, speech, artefact) and secondary sources (e.g. reference books, such as a dictionary or encyclopaedia)  Use appropriate ethical protocols to plan and conduct an inquiry (e.g. use specific formats for acknowledging other people’s information)  Represent information and/or data using appropriate formats to suit audience and purpose(e.g. tables/graphs, visual displays, models, timelines, maps, other graphic organisers)  Develop texts, particularly descriptions and explanations, using appropriate subject‐specific terminology and concepts that use evidence to support findings, conclusions and/or arguments,from a range of sources.   Reflect on learning to review original understandings. Year 7 Social Science Course 1 Economics Programme

WEEK TOPIC TEACHING STRATEGIES/ LEARNING ACTIVITIES RESOURCES ASSESSMENT Term 4 Money The Kingdom of Mocha (YouTube) SOSE Alive 2 Week 1- Worksheet from Adele pp.224&225 2 Barter session –  Why would people want to trade?  How easy is it to trade?  Identify any problems that arise with bartering Subject literacy: Students to define these terms in their Social Sciences glossary  Goods  Services  Needs  Wants  Money

As a class discuss the different forms of money that we use and brainstorm Forms of Money on the board. SOSE Alive 3 SOSE Alive 3 pp.274&275 pp.274&275  Read and answer questions

Week 2- Earning Money Class discussion Humanities ALIVE 3 Why do people work? – Economics &  Earn money, higher standard of living, workmates / frienships, Citizenship 2nd purpose, status etc. Edition. Pp122-123 Humanities ALIVE – Economics & Citizenship 2nd Edition. Pp122-123 Read through and discuss as a class making sure students have a solid understanding of the content.

Types of Work: SOSE Alive 2  Skilled and unskilled jobs pp.232&233 SOSE Alive 2 pp.232&233

The importance of Specialisation in our economy. http://www.youtu  Why do people specialise? be.com/watch?  Explain the benefits. v=u87L-Ujf6io

Discuss the work/ jobs that students parents and grandparents have had and the jobs they would like to get. Have they changed and how? How has the way we work changed over the past 25 years?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u87L-Ujf6io

Brainstorm key points concerning the importance of education, expertise, skills, experience….life long learning in the modern world.

Week 4- Spending Humanities ALIVE – Economics & Citizenship 2nd Edition. Pp4-5 Humanities ALIVE 6 SOSE Alive 2 pp.218-219 – Economics & Key Terms: Citizenship 2nd Needs and Wants Edition. Pp4-5 Financial constraints. SOSE Alive 2  Activities on pages pp.218-219

How has shopping changed over the years: Humanities ALIVE  Shopping hours – Economics &  Technology Citizenship 2nd  Advertising Edition. Pp.6-7  On-line shopping Humanities ALIVE – Economics & Citizenship 2nd Edition. Pp.6-7

Brainstorm as a class the dangers of shopping:  Budget constraints http://www.youtu  Shopping addiction be.com/watch?  Being aware of advertising – consider the false and misleading v=QGQqMWTeWO nature of much of it. w  On-line shopping dangers Poster / fact sheet titled - being a smart consumer http://www.youtu be.com/watch? v=qXlV0KKoM98 Assessment: Economics Board Game Assessment: Economics Board Game Due Week 6 Weighting 10%

Week 7- Exam Revision Exam revision- Students will be given an exam revision booklet and taught Assessment: 8 revision strategies to enable to achieve to their full potential. End of Year Examination Post exam- review the exam and goal setting exercise. Week 7/8 Weighting: 15%