Acquiring and Integrating Knowledge

“Shaping for History”Demonstrate and create opportunities for students to practice using the important

variations of the skill or process.

Overview

• Subject Area – History• Curriculum – Industrial Revolution• Unit LMP- 10 x LEP’s• DoL 2 – Acquiring & Integrating Knowledge– Procedural Knowledge– ‘Shaping’

• Pedagogy based on “Constructivist” learning theory.

Where do I start?

What is the skill?• Use chronological sequencing to demonstrate the relationship between events and developments in different periods and places (ACHHS164)

•Evaluate the reliability and usefulness of primary and secondary sources (ACHHS171)

•Process and synthesise information from a range of sources for use as evidence in an historical argument. (ACHHS170)

What resources to I have?– Australian History Teachers Association– Set text ‘Pearson 9’– Learners have access to technology (IPAD’s,

computers)– Library– Scootle– TES Australia

• 10 LEP’s–LEP’s 1-3 (Industrial Revolution

Introduction – Create timelines)–LEP’s 4-6 (Develop evidence

examination skills using ADAMANT)–LEP’s 7-10 (Essay Planning and Essay

Writing)

DemonstrateLEP’s 1-3

Create Timelines• Learners may draw a timeline with written

events and dates• Learners may illustrate events with dates• Learners may use technology or apps to

construct

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Demonstrate

LEP’s 4-6Research skills

• Author (Who? Where they lived)• Date (When? Context?)• Audience (Who was it for?)• Message (What? How to respond)• Agenda (Reason? Point of view?)• Nature (What form? Eg. Diary)• Techniques (How? Eg Language Imagery)

Create Opportunities

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Create Opportunities

*Procedural knowledge can be developed through analysing a range of texts, images, media, writings.

Example of work

VariationsReference Notes Quotes

Pearson 9 People migrated to cities for work.

“The Industrial Revolution created a need for labour-to tend machines in factories, work in coal mines and build transport infrastructure.”

Graphic Organisers

Apps

Early Childhood/Primary example

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Graphic Organisers

LEP’s 7-10

• Create focus questions and write short answers using topic sentence

• Construct Essay Plan• Write Introductions & Conclusions• Create Topic sentences

Practice

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Shaping Procedural Knowledge for History

Step 1 – Demonstrate how to use research techniques to construct timelines of an era.Step 2 – Create opportunities to use research techniques to make sense of evidence.Step 3 – Practice research skills using higher order thinking to create questions, and construct essays.

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Reference List

• O’Donnell, A. (2012). Educational Psychology. Queensland: John Wiley & Sons.

• Marzano, R. J. & Pickering, D. (1997). Dimensions of Learning Teacher's Manual. Victoria: Hawke Brownlow Education.