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Big Question: When is it important to make decisions?
Big Question: How many things do you really have a choice in?
Use learning background 1 or 2 and basic Venn Diagram Tool
Broken Bay Big Ideas Project
Sample Big Idea: Choices
For the purpose of identifying the kinds of links that can make Big Ideas more Real, Rich & Relevant, the topic of "personal and group decisions" was chosen within the broader theme of "Choices." For additional background on the rationale for links like these and such strategies as "Learning to Look," "Samplers," and "WebQuests," download the document: Curriculum Guidelines & Strategies for The Big Ideas Project (2.5 mg pdf)
Primary
Learning to Look
Exploring different Choices
- Which would you choose?
- Is this what you choose?
- Playing? or Playing? Who's the Biggest Loser? - Version 1 or version 2?
Use learning background 1 or 2 and basic Venn Diagram Tool
Middle
Learning to Look
Personal Choices- Helping Hands or Hammerlock?
- Choosing your words: Cool or Kind?
- Fitting in? a cartoon.
- School Canteen a cartoon.
- Helping or harming?
- Honk if you love Earth Day a cartoon.
- What's this cartoon saying about Christmas?
- Aren't iPods the best?!
Sampler Links
- Deciding not to Decide - Cartoon
- Health Self-Assessment
- Drug use by young serious offenders
- The Facts about Careers
Secondary
Learning to Look and Sampler Links
Global Choices Personal Choices
- Popular Diets - High Protein from Nutrition Australia
- All Kinds of Diets
- Statistics on Drug use in Australia 2004
- Benefits of being active
Choose a subject and brainstorm a cluster of all the choices related to it.
WebQuest Group Actions
Global Choices- GoVolunteer! (more info?)
- Get Active with Oxfam Australia
Common Resources
- A hotlist of Thinking Scaffold Links
- Sample Learning to Look Activity posted on the myinternet training site
- "My China" as a model for the Subject Sampler
- Exemplary WebQuest: Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?
- Group Process / Action Plan for a WebQuest: "Crool Zone"
- The 2nd10 Steps