The Rations (SACSA Information)

BAND: Middle Years

LEARNING AREA(S): Health and Mathematics

TOPIC / CONCEPT: The Rations

TIMELINE: 1 - 2 weeks

STRAND(S):

KEY IDEAS:
Personal and social development - Students extend their social knowledge and skills to enable them to make and maintain positive relationships and close friendships, and work collaborative in teams. (In) (Id) (KC4)

Health of individuals and communities - Students learn to assess and build their understandings of skills to effectively manage risky and challenging situation for themselves and others. (T) (F) (In) (KC1) (KC6)

Students increase their knowledge of and skills for healthy dietary practice in the past and present. They research and critically analyse information, including online, on food choice, and identify the influence of peers and the media on nutritional choices. (Id) (T) (C) (KC1)

Exploring, analysing and modelling data - Students engage with data by formulating and answering questions, and collecting, organising and representing data in order to investigate and understand the past and present. (In) (T) (C) (KC2) (KC6)

Measurement - Students understand attributes, units and systems of measurement. They research and report on how measurement is used today compared to the past. (In) (T) (C) (KC1) (KC2) (KC6)

Students recognise, develop and report on connections between mathematical ideas and representations. They employ logical strategies to solve problems in measurement situations, and reflect on the reasonableness of their answers. (T) (KC1) (KC2) (KC6)

Number - Students recognise relationships within different number concepts in order to make sense of, and represent numerically, a range of community activities and social processes encountered in their lives. (In) (T) (KC1)

ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS:

Futures

• Recognising patterns and connections within systems

Interdependence

• A sense of being connected with their worlds

Thinking

• Using a wide range of thinking modes
• Drawing on thinking from a range of times and cultures

Communication

• Making effective use of language, mathematical and information and communication technology tools

EQUITY/CROSS CURRIC/EVE:

Collect, analyse and and organise information from a spatial perspective (KC1)

Communicating ideas and information (KC2)

Planning and organising activities (KC3)

Use mathematical techniques associated with drawing and interpreting maps (KC5)

Solving problems (KC6)

Technology skills (KC7)

Rural and Isolated Perspectives 

CONTEXT:
This topic can be integrated into other units of work and emphasize the skills associated with mathematics. This activity can also form the basis for an integrated unit of work that provides students with the opportunity to achieve learning outcomes in all strands within society and environment as well as health and physical education, english, design and technology.

ENGAGING STUDENTS IN LEARNING:
Students discuss the concept of The Overland Telegraph Line, the 1870's, leadership, healthy living - brainstorming what they already may know and then investigating questions and even creating their own questions to explore.

WHAT DIFFERENCE COULD THIS LEARNING MAKE TO THE STUDENT'S LIFE?
Students could utilise this learning in continuing to develop a sense of healthy living, getting on with others and working within systems to which lives are connected.