Subject/Class: Year 10 HIstory Date:

Lesson Topic: Popular Culture

Essential Question: What is Australias contribution to international popular culture (music, film, television, sport) since 1945?

Lesson aim (must be measurable):
Students to be able to use chronological sequencing to demonstrate the relationship between events and developments in different periods and places
Identify and locate relevant sources, using ICT and other methods
Select and use a range of communication forms (oral, graphic, written) and digital technology


Time Student Activity (including catering for different abilities) What you will be doing
(class management/feedback)
Resources
required
Assessment
Engage
0 20
min









As students assemble they are to sit in their same small groups of four, so
that the pairs are facing each other.
Write the essential question on the board

(Revision of Prior Content)
KWL exercise Know, Want to know, Learned activity to get an
understanding of student knowledge on the topic

Brainstorm: what questions you could ask to gather information on
what Australia would have been like at the end of World War II?


Listening to the groups while
circulating the room


Teaching strategy E5 Model
Asssumed prior learning: How
this would be used ?
Brainstorming activity



Whiteboard/
Markers









Engagement


Participation in
class











Students to present their report drafts. Reports due in 3 weeks







Explore/Explain


What are possible sources of information for life in 1945? Ask
students to locate their own family in 1945. Has their family kept
anything from that period? Can students bring in any primary sources
that will assist in describing life in 1945? How do any primary sources
compare with the information contained in secondary sources?













Conference with students on
report drafts while the other
students are working on
brainstorming activity






Take students to the school
library, there they can locate
resources using books, magazines
and the internet.









Laptops
workbooks






School library


Participation
Elaborate
20
min



Research task: technology in Australia immediately after World War
II have groups research aspects such as: radio, film, transport,
household appliances, sport and communication. Students to pair up
and report back to the class on the nature of their area in Australia
after 1945.






TV, laptop,




Participation



90
min


Evaluate


Use this information to create an interactive timeline that shows
how developments in technology in the first half of the 20th century
led to changes in the way Australians accessed popular culture. Use
an interactive timeline tool such as Dipity

http://www.dipity.com

https://www.edmodo.com/


Circle the room making sure
students are on task, assist
students who have difficulty
understanding the task

Analyse using discussion how the
Australian culture has changed
since 1945, Take a global
perspective when analysing this
issue


Randomly pair up students to
encourage collaboration with
peers






Whiteboar
d/Markers



Student
laptops
Ability to answer
Research task






Summative
assessment:
Timeline to be posted
on Edmodo for
assessing
Conclusions
100
min

Summing up of activity. Have the outcomes been met?




Timelines to be completed for
homework