Cisco GPS - Change In Our Community

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Communication
• Collaboration
• Community Engagement
• Critical Thinking
• Problem Solving

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 5 HASS:

• Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges (ACHASSI102)
• Use criteria to make decisions and judgements and consider advantages and disadvantages of preferring one decision over others (ACHASSI103)
• Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI104)

Year 6 HASS:

• Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges (ACHASSI130)
• Use criteria to make decisions and judgements and consider advantages and disadvantages of preferring one decision over others (ACHASSI131)
• Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI132)

Syllabus outcomes: GE3-4

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking

Relevant parts of Year 5 HASS achievement standards: Students work with others to generate alternative responses to an issue or challenge and reflect on their learning to independently propose action, describing the possible effects of their proposed action

Relevant parts of Year 6 HASS achievement standards: Students collaboratively generate alternative responses to an issue, use criteria to make decisions and identify the advantages and disadvantages of preferring one decision over others. They reflect on their learning to propose action in response to an issue or challenge and describe the probable effects of their proposal.

These lessons have been developed in partnership with Cisco. Cisco believes that our future will be defined by global problem solvers – global citizens ready to thrive in a connected and digital future by thinking like entrepreneurs, innovating like technologists, and acting as agents of social change.

• Butcher’s paper and pens/pencils
• Device capable of presenting a clip to the class
• Group Roles
• Pitch Assessment Rubric
• Project Checklist – ready to project or enough copies for small group work
• Project Planning Tool – ready to project or enough copies for small group work
• S.M.A.R.T. Goals – ready to project or enough copies for small group work
• Student Worksheets – one copy per student