Family Treasues: Our Family Treasures

By Mary Neville.

Published by Curriculum Literacies in the Early Years

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This Learning Element deliberately focuses on the alignment of assessment, curriculum and pedagogy. In addition, the explicit identification of the curriculum knowledges and the curriculum literacies in the assessment task, flows through in the explicit teaching activities framed within the Learning by Design knowledge processes.
In this learning element students choose three family treasures and collect information about them from their families using a student generated questionnaire. Students then identify important information and analyse this in order to share the story of their family treasures with their class. Students' final product will explain what they found out about one of these treasures on a written and illustrated page for their class book “Our Family Treasures”.

Keywords: Studeies of Society and the Environment, Curriculum Literacies, Year 3, Diversity, Valuing the Past

Learning Object: Electronic (PDF File; 3.663MB). Learning Object: Electronic (PDF File). Published by Curriculum Literacies in the Early Years.

Mary Neville

Regional Manager Literacy, Greater Brisbane Region, Education Queensland, Kedron, Queensland, Australia

Mary Neville works for Education Queensland as a Regional Manager-Literacy for Greater Brisbane Region. Her primary role is to deliver professional development in literacy to teachers from Prep to Year 9. In 2006 she completed her Masters Degree by Research at RMIT University exploring the implementation of Multiliteracies through the Learning by Design framework in middle years classrooms.