Cisco GPS - Finding The Problem

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 3 HASS:

• Pose questions to investigate people, events, places and issues (ACHASSI052)
• Locate and collect information and data from different sources, including observations (ACHASSI053)
• The similarities and differences between places in terms of their type of settlement, demographic characteristics and the lives of the people who live there, and people’s perceptions of these places (ACHASSK069)

Year 4 HASS:

• Pose questions to investigate people, events, places and issues (ACHASSI073)
• Locate and collect information and data from different sources, including observations (ACHASSI074)
• The main characteristics of the continents of Africa and South America and the location of their major countries in relation to Australia (ACHASSK087)

Year 3 English:

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print,and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1682)

Year 4 English:

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features (ACELY1694)

Syllabus outcomes: GE2-1, GE2-2, GE2-4, EN2-2A. 

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy

Relevant parts of Year 3 HASS achievement standards: Students describe the characteristics of different places at local scales. They pose questions and locate and collect information from sources, including observations, to answer these questions.

Relevant parts of Year 4 HASS achievement standards: Students describe and compare the characteristics of places in different locations at local to national scales. They develop questions to investigate. They locate and collect information and data from different sources, including observations to answer these questions.

Relevant parts of Year 3 English achievement standards: Students create a range of texts for familiar and unfamiliar audiences

Relevant parts of Year 4 English achievement standards: Students create structured texts to explain ideas for different audiences
 
This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Cisco Global Problem Solvers – HASS – Years 3 & 4

Time required: 60 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – lead students in guided discussion

• Background Information – Season 1 factsheet
• Device capable of presenting a website to the class
• Year 3 Scenario
• Year 3 Scenario – Suggested Answers
• Year 4 Scenario
• Year 4 Scenario – Suggested Answers
• Student Worksheet – one copy per student

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

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Critical thinking

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.