Year 7 Humanities

The Year 7s have recently finished the teaching of their first Year 7 Humanities topic on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The kids learned a great deal and completed their first CLT for the subject. Today they started their new topic which required them to learn some Geographical Skills and Concepts. 

During today's class they got to work in several varied pairings. This was a way to learn to socialise with more than just their 'close' friends and learn to work collaboratively in different groups. It helps us to scaffold the important skill of working well with others. 

Today students learned about scale as they set about finding real life examples of local sporting groups, sourcing the best regional campsite to stay at and kids got to battle it out with a game of 'rock, paper, scissors' to decide upon the best country to list for their national example.  We then moved onto looking at an international examples. We then moved onto to looking for global examples and students were directed towards a live 'real-time' statistics site and kids worked together to find three global issues we are currently experiencing. This task required them to use inferencing about the implied problem from the statistics presented. 

The students also learned about the the geographical concept of place and interviewed a different classmate to that from the previous pairing. They then categorised the places mentioned into either human made places or natural ones. 

The students are photographed here during the stage when we learned about space. They worked with yet another pairing to map the classroom furniture using a bird's eye view. 

Therefore I'm happy to report that our Humanities class had a bit of everything in it, as it so often does. We worked on both our literacy and numeracy skills during a class, and hopefully made some steps towards helping our kids know they can talk and work with lots of different people in the classroom. 

By Ms Cassie Parsons 

Year 7 Humanities Teacher