The Show - What Is The Show?

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 3 HASS:

• Locate and collect information and data from different sources, including observations (ACHASSI053)
• Present ideas, findings and conclusions in texts and modes that incorporate digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms (ACHASSI061)

Year 4 HASS:

• Locate and collect information and data from different sources, including observations (ACHASSI074)
• Present ideas, findings and conclusions in texts and modes that incorporate digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms (ACHASSI082)

Years 3 & 4 Design and Technologies:

• Investigate food and fibre production and food technologies used in modern and traditional societies (ACTDEK012)

Syllabus outcomes: GE2-4, ST2-10LW, ST2-11LW.

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking.

Relevant parts of Year 3 HASS achievement standards: Students locate and collect information from sources and communicate their ideas, findings and conclusions in oral, visual and written forms using simple discipline-specific terms.

Relevant parts of Year 4 HASS achievement standards: Students locate and collect information and data from different sources and present ideas, findings and conclusions using discipline-specific terms in a range of communication forms.

Relevant parts of Year 3 & 4 Design and Technologies achievement standards: Students explain how products, services and environments are designed to best meet needs of communities and their environments.

Unit of work:  The Show – Connections To Farming And Agriculture – Years 3 & 4.

Time required: 60 min.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – facilitate class discussion and guide students in conducting online research and creating presentations.

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• A device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Question Sheet – What is Farming?

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

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Creativity

This lesson has been developed in partnership with The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria. For over 160 years, The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV) has been running the Royal Melbourne Show which, like other agricultural shows around the country, works to build the community’s knowledge and understanding of the vital role agriculture plays in our everyday lives.