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Assignment 2 planning a unit of work
Values Analyse Sequence for SOSE
Primary Units of Works
Unit 1: ‘Meeting Needs’
Stage of Schooling: Stage 1
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Introduction:
Overview of Outcomes:
Social System and Structures, Roles, Rights and Responsibilities, identifies ways in
which their own roles, rights and responsibilities and their needs are met individually
and cooperatively.
Situation Analysis:
The assumption has been made for situation analysis for primary class integration of
Stage 1.
The Following sequence has been designed for Stage 1 students. The unit is based on
social system and structures, roles, rights and responsibilities of families and their needs
are met individually and cooperatively.
Burwood West Public school established in 1861. This school is one of the oldest
schools of NSW, located in Sydney’s western suburb, approximately fifteen kilometres
from city centre. The school currently has population of 235 students. The school in
near to city where lots of changed has been noticed regarding impact of today’s lifestyle
is affecting everyday life. School is trying to maintain and instil values in children to
keep their home and school clean. The building was renovated in 1996, which has given
the pupils, staff and parents a revitalized learning environment. School is fully equipped
with all resources.
There are 20 students in the class of kindergarten, 12 girls and 8 boys. There are 2
students from ESL, 3 students are gifted/talented. This unit is completed at the end of
term 4 in Kindergarten. (Burwood East Primary School 2008, About Us)Page 2
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Focus question
Who help me meeting needs?
Contributing questions
1. What are my needs?
2. How do family members help each other meet their needs?
3. Who helps me meet my needs at school?
4. How do workers help us meet our needs?
Conceptual Strand
Social System and Structures.
General Outcomes:
SSS1.7
Explains how people and technologies in systems link to provide goods and services to
satisfy needs and wants (Board of Studies NSW 1998; 34, SSS1.7)
Indicators
Knowledge and Understanding
Identifies resources which is used to meet their needs and the needs of others
including goods and services.CQ4
Identifies the resources used by people who work and where they come from
CQ 4
Identifies different types of goods and services which is used for our needs and
wants. CQ 1,3,4
Classify the difference between goods and services. CQ 1,4
Explain how people help them including paid and unpaid worker. CQ 3Page 3
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Explains how paid and unpaid staff works in the school and classroom helps
meet their needs. CQ 3
(NSW Board of studies, 1998:34 SSS1.7)
Skills:
Gather information about the resources that is used by people to meet their own
needs and needs of others.
Get knowledge about goods and services.
Distinguish between goods and services..
Listen to stories about paid and unpaid worker in society.
Explain about the technologies which is being used for everyday living.(Board
of Studies NSW 1998:36-46, SSS1.7)
Values:
Discuss the different ways that resources are organised
Identify and locate classroom resources. (BOS 1998:46, SSS1.7)
SSS1.8
Identifies roles and responsibilities within families schools and the local community,
and determines ways in which they should interact with others.(Board of Studies NSW,
1998:36, SSS1.8)
Indicators
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Identifies about the school organisation community including who works in
school, their rights, roles and responsibilities for school. CQ 3
Identifies similarities and differences of rights, roles and responsibilities
between school and family. CQ 2,3
Explain what are the roles and responsibilities of families. CQ 2
Participating in creating and observing rules to protect their rights and rights of
others in the class and at school. CQ2,3
Identifies the need of different families are different to others. CQ 2
Identifies the roles for male and female within families. CQ 2
Illustrate what are their roles and responsibilities for school and family. CQ 2,3
Identifies roles and responsibilities of community workers including both paid
and unpaid worker. CQ 4
Identifies fair and unfair practices in their school and at home. CQ 2,3 (Board of
Studies NSW 1998:36, SSS1.8)
Skills
Describe the roles and responsibilities of school organisation and how they meet
their needs.
Explain roles and responsibility of family member to each other.
Illustrate the roles and responsibilities of their own towards school and family.
Listen stories and observe roles and responsibilities of community worker and
how they help in meeting their needs.
Explain difference between roles and responsibilities.
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Values:
Gather information about roles and responsibilities of each family member in a
family.
Organise resources for different activities, including collecting them beforehand,
putting them away, not wasting them.
(BOS NSW 1998: 46, SSS1.8)
Specific Outcomes
Higher Order Concepts
Technology, needs, resources, roles, co-operation, fairness, unfairness, responsibilities,
family, values, safety, lifestyle, rules, interdependence, similarities and differences.
Lower Order Concepts
Activities, indoor, outdoor, jobs, chores, adults, children, money, cloths, food,
shopping, home, transport, cleaning, cooking, washing, daily, weekly, farm house,
picnic area, buying, selling, sharing, learning, knowledge All these objects are used for
explaining topic in classroom.
Generalisations
Higher Order Generalisation
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All family members need to work together to fulfil their needs and needs of family.
Learn to help each other. We learn family values. Family values teach us about roles
and responsibilities for each other. It also affects our life style. Family member decide
about the job for whom and what job they have to do.
Lower Order Generalisations
Family members help each other.
Family make rules to ease the work to do.
Respect the process of rule-making and rule enforcement.
Children has different job and adult has different job to be done.
Children can not do hard job which could be dangerous for
them.
Family member work in a team and make sure all work is done
properly.
Different families have different rules and regulation for their
jobs.
Practical Skills
Gather information from variety of resources such as books, posters
Construct a chart and record relevant gathered information.
Classifying information under relevant headings
Construct and able to write simple text.
Performa role play activity to perform the scenario relevant to situation.
Social Skills
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Build confidence to participate in group activities.
Give respect to other student if views are different and give feedback.
Work cooperatively in a team.
Assist other student in group activities if required.
(EDSS970, Topic Notes. 2009, pp 24-25)
Values and attitude
Appreciating and valuing the help of all family members.
Develop and explore their own values during unit of work in classroom.
Give importance and respect to family member and listen to them.
Always use ethical words like please and thank you when working at home or
school.
Resources
Mo McAuley, The Tidy drawer
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TidyDraw.shtml
Margo Fallis, If I can help, I will
http://www.electricscotland.com/kids/stories/grandpandx.htm
Margo Fallis, The Messy Room http://www.electricscotland.com/kids/stories/room.htm
Online photos
http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/dustbin.html
Online stories
http://www.electricscotland.com/kids/stories/grandpandx.htm
Family pictures, House photos, Text book, Story books, Group activities, Role Play in
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Content Sample:
Student will learn about families’ responsibilities for each other and how they help and
work cooperatively in a family. This unit uses picture book, online short stories, group
activities and text books. Here I am using contributing question: How do family
members help each others to meet their needs?
Values education sequence- Action Learning
Contributing Question
How do family members help each other meet their needs?
Content sample: Roles, right and responsibilities in a family.
Teaching/Learning Activities Teacher’s Questions Sample Student’s
Response
Introduction
Read Text book and introduce
contributing questions
Revise previous learning about
needs.
Read short stories ‘The Tidy
Drawers’.
What are our needs?
Who can tell me what is
the story about?
Have you got any idea to
Food, shelter,
clothing, healthcare,
education.
Abby’s and her mum.
Yes, this is about tidy
up the drawer.
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Display sequence’s contributing
question and discuss how the
students could go about answering.
listen title page?
What job did Abby’s mum
asked her to do?
Why Abby’s mum asked
for this job?
What we learn from this
story
Who does this job at
home?
Clean her room.
Because it was so
messy to find the
things.
Help each other in
family and understand
our responsibility for
cleaning my room.
I do this job but
sometime my mummy
helps me.
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Resources: White Board, Black Board, Internet access
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TidyDraw.shtml
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Investigate about the area in and
around home
A picture/photo of a particular area
in and around a home is given to
pair of students.
Students make column and list jobs
that need to be done in that area.
Working in pair discusses about
family rules and note down in their
list they might
have in regards to using that area of
their home.
What area is this in your
home?
How many recycled bin
are there in photo?
What does that mean?
What recycling bin means?
What is the use of
recycling?
Who does this job?
What family rules do you
have in regards of
Bin area.
In my home there are
three bins are placed.
Different bin used for
different purpose.
Recycled bin is used
for putting paper, tin,
metal, bottle, empty
container which can
be used again.
It helps in cleaning
environment.
Everyone get turn to
do this job. I also do
that.
Throw garbage in
garbage bin only not
on the floor.
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cleaning?
Resources: Photograph of different areas in and around home. http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/dustbin.html
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Fairness of job
Children are to form groups
depending on which area of the
house they reviewed.
Make two columns, one for adults
and one for children and write the
jobs under each column which
needs to be done by them.
Roles play activity in which
students play a family role. One
play role for father, mother and two
children then each family member
do the same job everyday on their
own for example; mum is doing
cleaning the house everyday.
Concept development:
How we decide who will
do the particular job?
What jobs need to be done
by adults?
Which job can children
do?
Is it fair with your mum if
she does cleaning
everyday?
What other family member
should do?
Need to analyse
about the job and
think who is able to
do that job
Ironing, shopping,
cooking.
Taking out the
garbage, put cloths in
laundry.
No
We should help each
other.
Resources: Story book, black board, Role play activity.
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Helping animals.
Read children’s stories from internet
‘If I can help, I will’.
Draw picture of pets and birds in
their notebook.
Draw picture of their favourite pets
and perform through painting how
to take care of them.
What is the story about
just looking title of the
story?
Who is main character in
the story?
What is he doing in this
story?
Who else Christopher
helped?
Do you think this is his
favourite job?
What would you do if you
were Christopher?
Do you think this is right
to do in real life?
Helping others.
Christopher.
He saved small bird
from big bird and fix
small bird’s wings.
Two kittens.
Yes.
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Conclusion
Group of students display a list of
house plan. Each list shows the
relevant area of plan.
Discuss list and ask questions to
develop generalisations.
Generalising
Questions:
What have we noticed
about each area of the
house?
What is the role of each
family member?
Is it fair to give the same
job to the same person?
How do family rules help
regarding house job?
What happened if we do
not use recycled bin?
Do you notice one job is
important to other?
Each area has specific
job. Some areas have
hard job than others.
Do their jobs
seriously and take
responsibility.
No, It should be rotate
weekly.
Family rules help
keep area clean and
everyone get
responsibility for that.
It would be messy and
environment will also
be polluted.
All jobs are important
but cleaning job is
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Why do you think so?
How family members help
each other meet their
need?
most important.
Because cleaning not
only clean our home
but also helps in
cleaning environment.
All family member
respect each other and
work in a team.
Apply:
Read a story ‘ The messy room’ by
Margo Fallis where Emma is not
listening her mum to clean her room
and that create a problem for herself.
Website for the story:
http://www.electricscotland.com/kids
/stories/room.htm
Children do role play of group of
five and read book in a group to
understand about the story.
What might be story
about, see the title page
and picture of story.
Who is main character
in this story?
Why author choose this
title?
What was she
ignoring?
What was her family’s
Messy room and
missing shoes.
Emma
Because Emma did
not listen to her mum.
To clean up her room.
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Compare the story with their own
real life experience and share their
own experience in group.
plan?
Why Emma did not go
to Zoo?
What did she miss that
day?
Was the story ending
different to the role
play you performed?
Do you think you also
do the same thing at
home?
Going to Zoo.
Because she did not
find her shoes because
her room was so
messy
Fun at Zoo with
family.
Reflect:
Student discuss about their
understanding for the role taken as
part of other home responsibilities.
Analysing the roles and
responsibilities for their work at
home.
What was interesting
part about helping at
home?
Have your
understanding of jobs
around the home
Lots of jobs need to
done at home.
Different families
have different jobs.
Yes, it is fairer if we
all do jobs and help
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changed?
How would you help
out your family
member?
each others.
I can put dirty cloths
in laundry.
Unpack dishwasher
Empty bin.
Assessment:
Give sheet of paper and ask them to draw picture of their jobs.
Complete sentence underneath drawing. I help in ………at home.
My mum helps me in …………..
Demonstrate ways in which they can take responsibility for meeting their needs.
( SSES1)
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Appendix
The Tidy Drawer StoryOne Saturday morning Abby's Mum came upstairs to see Abby in her bedroom. Or tried to.
There was so much mess on the floor she could only poke her head around the door. Abby
sat in the middle of it all reading a book.
"What a tip," Mum said. "You need to have a clear up in here."
"Why?" Abby asked.
"Why?" Mum repeated. "Because things get broken or lost when they're all willy-nilly like
this. Come on, have a tidy up now."
"But I'm very busy," Abby argued, "and it's boring on my own. Can't you help me?"
"No I can't, I'm busy too. But I'll give you extra pocket money if you do a good job."
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When Mum came back later all the toys and clothes and books had disappeared.
"I'm impressed," said Mum. "But I'll inspect it properly later."
"It was easy," said Abby. "Can I have my extra pocket money now?"
"All right. Get it out of my change purse. It's in the kitchen tidy drawer."
In the kitchen Abby went over to the dresser and pulled open the tidy drawer. She hunted for
the purse.
"Any luck?" Mum asked.
Abby shook her head.
"It must be lurking at the bottom," Mum said. "Let's have a proper look."
She pulled the drawer out and carried it over to the table. Abby kneeled up on a chair to
look inside. There were lots of boring things like staplers and string but there were lots of
interesting things as well.
"What's this?" Abby asked, holding up a plastic bottle full of red liquid. Mum laughed.
"Fake blood, from a Hallowe'en party years ago. Your Dad and I took you to that, dressed
up as a baby vampire. You were really scary."
"I don't remember that."
Abby carried on looking through the drawer. She found some vampire teeth, white face
paint, plastic witchy nails and hair gel. Mum pulled out a glittery hair band. It had springs
with wobbly balls on the top that flashed disco colours. She put it on her head while she
carried on looking through the drawer. Abby found some sparkly hair elastics to match the
hair band. She made her Mum put lots of little bunches all over her head so she looked really
silly.
"I remember this," Abby said as she pulled out
a plastic bag. "This is from my pirate party." Inside
there was a black, false moustache and some big
gold earrings.
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Two Kitten helped by Christropher
Messy room
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Recycled bin
Fantastic online tips for parents and teachers
Household chores are a big pain, especially when you find yourself doing them alone most of the time. Without any help, household chores can become frustrating and overwhelming and make you irritable and cranky when you come home from a long day of work and have to do them all. It's important that your family help out so that tensions stay at a minimum in the household and families get along in harmony. There are ways to convince your family that you need help with household chores and ways to motivated them to assist you everyday so that you are not doing them alone.
Instructions1. Step 1
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Explain to your spouse and children that you need their help doing household chores and how much it would mean to you if each of them took on a few chores each day. Let them know that it's tiring and frustrating for you to come home from work everyday and have to clean the house alone. Explain that there are household chores that need done on a daily basis that you are sometimes too exhausted to do alone and that them helping you with the chores would make you less irritable and tired, and give you more time to spend with them.
2. Step 2
Make a list of chores that need done and assign each family member a chore to do each day. Have your family help with the chore list by deciding for themselves what chores they would like to take on. Give them the option first of choosing their household chores. If this becomes a hassle, assign the chores yourself and give chores to your spouse as well. Have one child take on sweeping and mopping, another do dishes, and your spouse to take on laundry or bathroom duty. Do the household chore list however you see fit and fair for all family members. Take time to talk out the chore list so that no family member feels they are getting more chores than another.
3. Step 3
Praise family members for helping you do chores and thank them often for doing their best. Even if your family does not do the chores the exact way you would like, try to let this go. If you criticize the way your family does the household chores, they will be less apt to want to help. Always praise them for helping even if it is not the way you would do things. Never go over the chores again. Try to let your family take control of their own individual chores. Let them know what a great job they've done and how much you appreciate their help. Tell your family that them helping with the household chores has taken a huge burden off of you and that your thankful to them.
4. Step 4
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Give your family rewards for helping with chores. Children can get stickers to collect for small rewards later such as movie time, video game time, small toys, or ice cream. Reward your spouse for helping by cooking him dinner, spending alone time together, or doing something sweet in return for him. Show your family that doing good deeds comes with rewards. This teaches children that they earn when they work and helps your spouse know that he is appreciated for his work. Even if you just give the reward of time with you, because normally household chores takes that away, then you will be showing your family how much helping with the chores has lightened your load.
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How to Get Children to Help with Household Chores
By ShenisonUser-Submitted Article
Teaching kids to help out around the house is an important step to teaching them responsibility. Not only will you be getting some help with the household chores but your child will get a feeling of accomplishment and belonging.
1. Start early. The younger the child is when he is first encouraged to take some responsibility for the house he lives in the more accepting he will be of the concept.
2. Step 2
Select an age appropriate job. A four year old can put a fresh trash bag in after you have taken the full one out. A six year old can empty the silverware from the dishwasher or clear the plates from the table after dinner. By eight, most children can empty a dishwasher. Emptying the dishwasher is also good training for loading the dishwasher later on. Older children can sort laundry, vacuum, or take over the responsibilities of a family pet.
3. Step 3
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Make it clear to the child that everyone in the house has to help to keep things running smoothly. Encourage him by telling him how much his work has helped you.
4. Step 4
A reward system is a very useful. Younger children can be rewarded with stickers or stars on a calendar for each day they performed their task. Older children can receive an allowance but be careful how you handle it. It's good to say "Now that you are responsible enough to handle some chores you are old enough to get an allowance." It is not good to say "I will pay you two dollars every time you do your chore." Paying your child for a chore sends the message that she is working for the money and you will soon find yourself paying her for everything she does.
5. Step 5
When your child is overwhelmed by a busy schedule or a school project offer to take over the chore for a few days. Be sure to tell him why you are helping him out. Say "I can see you are really busy right now. I'll empty the dishwasher for you tonight so you can work on your project." This gives him the message the job is still his, but you are a family and should help each other out when necessary.
6. Step 6
Finally, keep in mind that a job you have to do over and over becomes tedious. Once your child has mastered a few jobs around the house make a chore schedule and rotate the responsibilities among all the household members.
Resources
The board of studies website has list of current available resources for example fact
sheets, websites, text and other material to support unit.
Text books and online resources that refers to basic needs- food, shelter, clothing and
love
Hands on activities, staff to help in role play activities.
The corner in classroom where student can do role ply activity, dolls for demonstration,
clothes used for dressing up from different culture, photographs,
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Material used: colour to draw, paint, cardboard, pencil, paper, glue, clay, video,
television, computer/laptop. (NSW Board of studies 1998, p-37)
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