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Sharon's outline of how Task 3 is to be set out

You will use the following subheadings:

1. Description of cohort 2. Question (here you will write only the question - no description) 3. Lesson sequence (and then a further subheading of Lesson 1; Lesson 2; Lesson 3; Lesson 4) 4. Resources 5. Enhancing student learning **describe HOW you will use these resources *** 6. Reflection on resources describe WHY you chose these resources *** **
 * 7. Implications for our classroom practice **


 * That's it ... no variation. **

__Description of cohort __

 The following unit is planned for a grade 3/4 class of twenty-two students. They all have good ICT skills. Students have regular access to computers and are proficient at accessing different programs. There are five computers available for student use within the classroom. The class also has access to the school computer lab. Most of the students have computers at home. The majority of the students are competent with reading both analogue and digital clocks. The students can all read independently and should not require help with understanding written tasks.  

 __Question: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What time is it in other parts of the world compared to the time in Tasmania? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Learning sequence: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Review time and establish prior knowledge; introduce that time is different depending where you live; students explore this concept and find what time it is in different places; students publish their findings. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Lesson 1 __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Watch Learning Federation video introducing “Time”. <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">As a class brainstorm terms describing time: hour, minute, week, month, second, soon, later. Make a <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[|Wordle] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> of these terms. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Students explore time using the time tools resource in groups of 4. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Lesson 2 __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

Divide class into five groups. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Each group will explore eight different countries finding out “what time it is in these countries compared to the time in Tasmania at 9am” using the time converter. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Each group is then to create a table showing these different times.

__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Lesson 3 __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Whole Class <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Project an excel image of a table onto whiteboard. Groups can then write their information on their individual countries into table. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Comparisons and similarities between times in other countries can then be discussed. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Lesson 4 __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Group 1: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Create a presentation for class viewing listing their findings. (powerpoint) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Group 2: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Upload findings to class wikispaces. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Group 3: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Create a poster detailing times in other parts of the world when it is 9 am in Tasmania for school hallways (publisher). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Group 4: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Create a document/news report detailing findings for school newsletter. (publisher) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Group 5: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Create a class poster with clocks showing various times throughout the world at 9am Tasmanian time. (word) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> ICT related resources: __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">​ <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Computers <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Access to Internet <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Time converter - <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Time tools - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">On-line video - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Wordle - <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">[|www.wordle.net] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Wikispaces - <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">www.wikispaces.com <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Microsoft Office <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Word <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Excel <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Powerpoint <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Publisher <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Data projector <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Enhancing student learning __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> The students will use computers to access internet resources. They will watch an introductory video streamed from a website. Students will complete an online learning activity on time and clocks. They will also need to access a variety of Microsoft Office programs to publish their findings. Students will be posting findings onto their class wiki site. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Computers: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">


 * Internet:** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The introductory video will be streamed from the internet and projected for students to watch as a whole class. A website will be used to publish their prior ideas about time. Throughout the unit the students will be accessing programs on the internet to further their learning. The students will use a variety of web-sites to explore the question. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Using the time converter the students are able to explore the times around the world in comparison to the time in Tasmania. As they explore multiple countries they will discover for themselves that time changes depending which country you look at. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * Time converter:**

The students review their knowledge of time, helping each other if necessary, before moving onto the next stage of time in different countries. This resource allows the students to explore time at their own pace. The practice section allows them to change the time on the analogue clock and the digital clock automatically changes showing them the matching time. The time challenge section allows them to match the time on the master clock and check their answers. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Time tools: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

An introductory video will be shown to introduce the unit on "Time". This video will be streamed from the internet and projected onto the whiteboard for student viewing. A visual introduction to a unit can motivate the students by capturing their interest. Students' learning can be enhanced if they are motivated in the unit of work being explored. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Wordle has been chosen to publish the students’ prior knowledge on time. The teacher will open a Wordle page. The class will brainstorm their ideas about "time". The teacher will input the ideas from the children and create a word cloud in different styles and colours. This activity will capture their interest and at the same time allows the teacher to establish prior knowledge.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">On-line video **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Wordle: **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The children will create a page about their investigation into "Time". They will insert links to the resources they have used during this unit of study. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">A wiki makes it possible to immediately share information with other members of the wiki. It allows the creation of an interactive community of learners. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * Wikispaces:** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The following activities will give the students experience using a variety of software applications and different venues to publish their findings. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Excel: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> The students will create a two column table detailing their countries and the times. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Word: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> The students will use this resource to create a poster showing clock faces displaying the times of the countries. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Powerpoint: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Students will create a three page presentation incorporating the various transitions and features of powerpoint to create a visually interesting display of the information they have gathered. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;">· **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Publisher: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> This resource will be used to assist the students create a poster listing different times in the countries studied. They will also be using this resource to create a smaller document for publication in the school newsletter.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Microsoft Office **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Data Projector: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The projector will be used to display introductory video. It will be used to project Excel tables on the whiteboard for the students to complete. The final drafts of the group assignments will be projected onto the screen following the final lesson. The data projector allows sharing of information and encourages discussion amongst the whole class. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Reflection on resources __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The most appropriate resources to investigate this question are internet and program based therefore require the use of computers. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Computers: **

The use of the internet in classrooms is increasing. Children need to know how to find information on websites and how to utilise this information to answer questions posed by their teacher. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">To find the information required to complete this sequence of lessons the children need to be able access websites. The world wide web is the broadest and fastest resource available for students to use for researching purposes.
 * Internet:**

The children must research times in different countries of the world. The most accurate resource to use for this is a time convertor web-site. This particular site has been chosen as the time convertor is simple to use. Their focus, and learning, then is on the different times not how the program works. They are discovering that the time is different in different countries and that you need a converter like this to work out the time.
 * Time converter:**

This resource has been chosen to establish prior understandings students have about time. To use the time convertor website successfully they must be able to read digital time. This site converts time on a clock face to digital time and the same in reverse. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * Time tools:**

This short video has been chosen to introduce the sequence of lessons on time as it is a visual resource which can capture the interest of a class and give them a brief overview of the concept of time. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">On-line video: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

It is easy to use and doesn’t require any setting up. Data is input directly into it and it creates the word display for you. This visual resource captures the students’ interest. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Wordle: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Microsoft Office: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Microsoft Office has a variety of publishing tools children can access. They can create professional looking documents in a reasonably short space of time. Students can create striking headings and text types. They can insert images into their text. Students need to know how to create a new document. They must know how to save it in an appropriate format, with an appropriate file name. Students must also know how to find the document they have saved. They must be able to open and edit the document they created and save it so these changes are not lost. Using these programs as some of the resources in this investigation will give children valuable experience with these necessary skills. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> A class wiki is a way to permanently have available to the class all the information gathered during this investigation. A wiki will be used to incorporate content and learnt skills from many academic areas into one forum.
 * Wikispaces:**

This resource was chosen to share the introductory video with the class. This will allow for group discussion. Having students write their findings on the whiteboard during the third lesson can further engage the students in the discussion. This resource will also allow students to share their final compiled projects with the whole class. They will project the powerpoint presentation, as well as the finished wiki page, newsletter report and posters onto the whiteboard for whole class viewing. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * Data Projector:**

__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Implications for our classroom practices __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In order to successfully teach this learning sequence and achieve desired learning outcomes, it is essential, as a teacher to have a broad and sound knowledge of the topic, in this case time, timezones and geography. As a teacher I would thoroughly research the topics before the first lesson begins to refresh my existing knowledge and possibly extend it. Students can be unpredictable and ask questions that are not factored into the lesson plan so it is best to know the subject and be prepared for the unexpected. It is also of utmost importance to have sound computer skills. Not only to be confident in using ICT tools but also in how computers work so that any glitches and gremlins can be rectified with limited fuss and time delay. All professional learning days based on ICT should be attended in order to keep up with technological advances which are constantly changing. Due to the fact that ICT is heavily integrated into this learning sequence, the teacher would need to establish a backup plan. A power failure, for example, would make completing this learning sequence very difficult. Learning to tell the time can be a difficult to learn, you cannot see it or touch it. Therefore, planning the learning sequence with ICT learning resources and tools will support and enhance the understanding of a key mathematical concept. The focus of the time concept can be difficult for students to learn. Real life problem solving approaches, along with the ICT learning tools and resources will encourage higher order thinking and problem solving approaches. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">