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    This unit focused on past civilizations and their connections to modern society. Students learned about major ancient civilizations through a timeline spanning classroom walls. Their favorite activities included analyzing artifacts from different time periods and a "chocolate chip cookie mining" activity. A field trip to the local history museum provided insights into Hong Kong's development over time. Students practiced important research and observation skills throughout the unit.

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    This unit focused on past civilizations and their connections to modern society. Students learned about major ancient civilizations through a timeline spanning classroom walls. Their favorite activities included analyzing artifacts from different time periods and a "chocolate chip cookie mining" activity. A field trip to the local history museum provided insights into Hong Kong's development over time. Students practiced important research and observation skills throughout the unit.

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    This unit focused on past civilizations and their connections to modern society. Students learned about major ancient civilizations through a timeline spanning classroom walls. Their favorite activities included analyzing artifacts from different time periods and a "chocolate chip cookie mining" activity. A field trip to the local history museum provided insights into Hong Kong's development over time. Students practiced important research and observation skills throughout the unit.

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    YEAR 3SH UNIT OF INQUIRY REVIEW

    ISSUE NUMBER 2

    WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE AND TIME


    Past
    civilisations
    connect to
    present day
    society
    T h i s u n i t p r o v i d e d a we a l t h o f
    information and the children were very
    engaged and interested throughout it.
    We spent a number of sessions looking
    at time periods and when major
    ancient civilisations were at their peak.
    This information was housed on a large
    timeline that spread around 3/4 of the
    classroom wall - helping the students to
    make connections between BC and AD
    dates (after much discussion around
    the year 0!) Our summative task was
    based on The Willow Tree Pattern
    which tells the love story of two young
    people in China. The personal interest
    of the children was greatest when
    inquiring into the Ancient Chinese and
    Ancient Roman civilisations.
    They
    found out a huge number of things that
    were created hundreds, sometime
    thousands of years ago that we still use
    today.
    Children enjoyed bringing in
    their own bag of artifacts and having
    their peers looking through the
    evidence to try and identify which
    child in the class it belongs to.
    Probably the favourite activity of the
    unit was the chocolate chip cookie
    mining activity. Why? Because they
    could eat it at the end!

    CHOCOLATE CHIP MINING: This activity


    was a great task for the children to see that
    to uncover the truth, they need to work
    slowly, carefully and methodically - digging
    through the rubbish to find evidence.

    History Museum
    The history Museum was a great
    visit for the kids as a gave a
    fantastic insight into the history
    of Hong Kong - from long, long
    ago to the present day. The kids
    were excited about having the
    opportunity of taking their iPads
    to help them document
    evidence. Needless to say, our
    return to school saw tens of
    blurry photos that did not show
    evidence of much! The History

    Museum gave a powerful insight


    into how people used to live in
    Hong Kong through various
    times and occupations.
    Transport was a aspect of the
    story of Hong Kong that was
    clearly shown throughout the
    exhibitions.
    The children
    enjoyed discussing these
    changes in transport and what it
    is like now - and what it might
    look like in the future.

    TRANSDISCIPLINARY SKILLS: This unit focussed on Research and Fine


    motor Skills. Being a history heavy unit, the various research skills came
    in very handy. Observation was of major importance during this unit and
    worked closely with recording and presenting data. Ms Chan took a
    number of sessions on visual note taking and the children used these skills
    throughout the unit.

    ARTIFACTS: Ms. Chan came into the class


    to share artifacts from her past - some that
    brought back great personal memories. They
    looked that these artifacts to make
    connections to the persons past and what
    they could learn about them.

    CONNECTION: Where possible, connection


    was made between information discovered
    and our lines of inquiry. This was done in a
    variety of ways - Venn Diagrams, discussion,
    and drawings. There were many examples of
    connection found throughout the unit.

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