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=St Pius X Contemporary Learning Exemplar Project 2008=

Teacher/s	Deborah Courtney with Damian Kerrins, Naomi Marron Year Level	3/4 Unit of Work	Many Countries, Many Stories

Connection to Team’s learning focus Developing deep understandings about the world and how it works •	Students will be looking at multicultural issues from different perspectives and discussing how they are influenced by the issue – from own experiences and those around them. •	The focus will be to put themselves in the place of someone from a different culture, make a puppet of a person from that culture and then write a play about an aspect of student wellbeing that may affect that person.
 * The students will create a presentation - different, but the same, which will display their understandings from the unit.

So What? Do Australians respect each other? Are Australians tolerant of each other?

Big Concepts •	Who are we? Students learn about the contributions that people from diverse groups have made to many aspects of the Australian way of life. They realise that people have migrated to Australia for different reasons and at different times. •	Technology Students investigate what simple technological systems can do and develop skills in using a range of materials to produce products (in Arts, Design and ICT) and simple systems. They begin to provide input into the development of designs.

Understandings The students will understand: •	That we are all different (emotionally, physically, culturally, socially). •	There are many things we all share and these make us all Australians. •	The Australian way of life is influenced by cultural diversity. •	We have to learn to accept difference. •	Our cultural experience changes how we see people