ESH360: Advanced HASS

Week 2 Blog: Civics and Citizenship Learning about Democracy Dear Parents/Guardians, Welcome to Class R3’s blog!    Blogs are a great way to keep parents/guardians informed about their child’s learning and the context in which it occurs.    Classroom blogs promote strong home-school relationships (Morris, 2013), parent communication, literacy/ICT skills, authentic audiences, sense of community (Victoria, 2016), and the opportunity to teach digital citizenship (Watanabe-Crockett, 2017).    In the coming weeks, Class R3 will be learning about Civics and Citizenship through the Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) component of the Australian Curriculum.    Students will grasp the concepts of active citizenship and how this is represented in the community.    The blog will explore the purpose of the unit, how and what students will learn, and how parents/guardians can support their child’s learning. What children are le...

ESH360: Advanced HASS - Using Blogs to communicate with HASS parent/carers        AT1 Liam Ryan - 452002 ESH360: TEMPLATE FOR BLOG POSTS Blog Post # 1.3 Your name: Liam Ryan Year: Grade 5 AC/HASS Topic: Education for sustainability linking to both Geography and Civics and Citizenship Education (Week 5) Dear Parents/Guardians, Welcome to Class R5’s blog!   In the next 3-4 weeks our class will be looking at Civics and Citizenship Education (CCE) through Geography/Sustainability.   As many of our parents and students are aware, our beautiful Tasmanian landscape and forests suffered greatly at the hands of bushfires across the summer.   Bushfires are problematic because Tasmania is one of the driest and most fire-hazardous continents in the world (McNeice, 2016).   Traditionally, fires are a natural component of the Australian eco-system ( A history of vulnerability: putting Tasmania...