Lesson+3+Organising+Ourselves


 * Lesson 3 Organising Ourselves**
 * Level 4**
 * Domain & Dimension**: Humanities / History
 * Learning focus**: Lesson number 3 in eight lessons where students learn about significant events and people in history, including recent times.
 * Objective**: for students to organise themselves into four groups. Each group will focus on a particular time in history and togerther they will begin to make a poster or role play to reflect what they have learn't about that particular time. some key ways to research will be discussed, and specific tasks delegated.
 * Time || Learner Activities || Teacher Activities || Resources ||
 * 2

2

10

10

5

20 || A few students discuss why they have picked this event

Each group write their names on a piece of card and stick it under their event which they will be researching.

In groups, brainstorm key elements of that event. Brainstorm where they will get information from. Decide, poster or role play || Drawing on prior knowlege, students are asked about the timeline which they have previously constructed.

Students are asked to stand undr the particular event that interests them the most.

Try to even the groups so that there are equal number of students in each group. Discuss different factors of each event which may interest students.

When groups are fairly even, explain that these will be the working groups which students will be in to work on posters, role plays.

Teacher brings groups back together and one speaker from each group explains to the rest of the class what their group will be doing

Remainder of time is spent beginning to research event, and recording information. Teacher moves around each group and making sure they are on task with some direction. || Timeline previously constructed Whiteboard

coloured card to write group names on

butchers paper for brainstorming

computers ||