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SECTION ONE:
Units/Curriculum:
Duration: Term 2 (weeks 3 -10)
Subjects covered: Health, Drama, English
Year Group: 2/3/4
Teachers/Staff: Kylie Kuchel and Lauren Kervers
Project Idea:
Summary of the complex real world problem being investigated:
Students will study the complexities of the human brain and how we
process stimulus, emotion and appropriate reaction. Throughout this
program students will be exposed to and use several different strategies
for getting along and regulating emotion. With their understanding they
will write, produce and perform a play about an emotional journey.
Driving Question(s):
Learning Intentions/Outcomes:
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Needs to know
How the body interprets stimulus
How the body processes messages resulting in a response
As we grow our thinking and reasoning brain continues to develop to help
us make sensible choices
Strategies that will help practice appropriate responses
Strategies for self-regulating emotion
Structure and practice at writing a script
Success Criteria:
Students can identify strategies that work the best for them to
manage feelings
Group Play students work together as a team to write, produce and
perform a play that depicts emotional journeys
Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making positive statements and voicing disagreement in an
appropriate manner, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately (ACELY1789)
Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics (ACELY1667)
Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas and negotiate in
collaborative situations (ACELY1676)
Use interaction skills, including active listening behaviours and communicate in a clear, coherent manner using a
variety of everyday and learned vocabulary and appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume (ACELY1792)
Year 4
Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)
Use interaction skills such as acknowledging anothers point of view and linking students response to the topic,
using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume
to speak clearly and coherently (ACELY1688)
Health
Year 2
Describe their own strengths and achievements and those of others, and identify how these contribute to
personal identities (ACPPS015)
Practise strategies they can use when they feel uncomfortable, unsafe or need help with a task, problem or
situation (ACPPS017)
Describe ways to include others to make them feel they belong (ACPPS019)
Explore actions that help make the classroom a healthy, safe and active place (ACPPS022)
Year 3 & 4
Describe and apply strategies that can be used in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or
unsafe (ACPPS035)
Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing(ACPPS036)
Describe how respect, empathy and valuing diversity can positively influence relationships (ACPPS037)
Investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength (ACPPS038)
Describe strategies to make the classroom and playground healthy, safe and active spaces (ACPPS040)
220 Strathalbyn Road, Mylor SA 5153
Ph: +61 8388 5345 Fax: +61 8388 5701
Website: www.mylorps.sa.edu.au Email: info@mylorps.sa.edu.au
Drama
Year 2
Use voice, facial expression, movement and space to imagine and establish role and situation (ACADRM028)
Present drama that communicates ideas, including stories from their community, to an audience (ACADRM029)
Year 3 & 4
Use voice, body, movement and language to sustain role and relationships and create dramatic action with a sense
of time and place (ACADRM032)
Shape and perform dramatic action using narrative structures and tension in devised and scripted drama
(ACADRM033)
Individual:
Personal qualities monitoring tool Exhibition audience:
Choosing self-monitoring strategies
Class
School
Community
Experts
Web
Other:_____________
SECTION TWO: The Process
Hook or immersion event:
Possible Exemplars/models:
Personalisation:
Students will engage with outdoor education experts to find effective ways
to complete challenges as well as have discussion about making qualities
of a positive team member.
Explicit teaching moments:
How might specific content and/or skills be teacher-led?
Resources needed:
Community resources: Outdoor Education Specialist (Nunyara)
Timeline:
Insert key events, milestones, check-in moments and assessments below: