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Name: Amanda Cook Domain: VEL level 4 Humanities, History Duration: 40 minutes Title: Tuning in to China

Learning focus: Students will begin to develop an understanding of the history in Chinese culture. They will begin to gain knowledge about the differences and similarities between Australia and China.

Objectives: At the end of this lesson we will have found out children's prior knowledge by using out K-W-L charts, we will also know things we will need to cover in detail in the future lessons.

10 minutes- Show Introduction Power Point, students will listen and pay attention to the introduction power point and ask questions. This power point will briefly describe the main things we are going to cover in this topic and provide them with an outline of activities we plan to do in the unit.

5 minutes – Teacher will explain to students that they will be making a K-W-L Chart and China and Chinese History in groups of two. Teacher should pair students up with people they don’t normally work with to generate more ideas with in the group.

15 minutes- Teacher will supervise, and assist any students who need help with their K-W-L chart, students will be creating their chart.

10 minutes- At the end to share the different ideas with the whole class.