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 This unit of work is based for stage 2 students exploring British Colonisation of Australia. The unit is based around the HSIE significant events and people outcome //CCS2.1// //Describes events and actions related to the British colonisation of Australia and assesses changes and consequences.//

This HSIE unit of work is linked to English and Creative Arts KLA’s. This topic is to be taught throughout one term and involve 10 specific lessons. The aim of this unit of work is for students to develop a deep understanding surrounding the focus outcome CCS2.1, as well as equipping students with the content and skills knowledge to produce a multimodal text by lesson 10. As a class project students are to produce a video that incorporates their knowledge about British Colonisation of Australia and assesses the changes and consequences of this event.

The sequence of lessons starts by introducing the unit topic using initial activities that focus on building up student’s field knowledge. Lessons then become more specific with students being required to focus on a particular aspect of the topic. These lessons involve strong English and Literacy links and incorporate a variety of resources to aid student’s knowledge development. The lessons include a focus on written and visual grammar. The later lessons concentrate on student’s completion of the video based multimodal text. These lessons incorporate student scaffolding, storyboarding, writing, filming and editing. The finished result will be a class made movie demonstrating student’s knowledge about British colonisation of Australia. This is a creative and fun task that aims to enhance student’s engagement in the unit of work and support their learning.