Essential Learnings deconstructed

Learning and Assessment

Breaking down the SOSE Essential Learnings is done so that teachers fully understand the outcomes their students need to achieve. Deconstructing the Essentials can be tricky but I’m sure it becomes easier with practice!

• Investigate social, political, economic, environmental and cultural ideas and
issues.
• Understand values and world views in various contexts.
• Develop meaningful responses to social and environmental issues.
• Make connections between people and places
• Respond creatively to issues, both collaboratively and individually.
• Reflect on learning, making judgements about different values and perspectives.


Ways of working

Students are able to:

• Identify a research focus from broad topics and design focus questions and sub-
questions
• Plan investigations, using discipline-specific inquiry models and processes
• Research and analyse data, information and evidence from primary and secondary
sources
• Evaluate sources of data, information and evidence for relevance, reliability,
authenticity,purpose, bias and perspective
• Draw conclusions and make decisions supported by interpretations of data,
information and evidence
• Communicate descriptions, decisions and conclusions, using text types specific to
the context and purpose and the conventions of research-based texts
• Respond to local and global issues by taking action in planned and enterprising
ways
• Apply strategies for making group decisions and for taking informed social and
environmental action
• Reflect on different perspectives, and recognise and evaluate the influence of
values and beliefs in relation to social justice, the democratic process,
sustainability and peace
• Reflect on learning, apply new understandings and justify future applications.


Links to Blooms Taxonomy

Identify - Knowledge
Plan- Synthesis (Higher order thinking)
Research -Analysis (Higher order thinking)
Evaluate (Higher order thinking)
Draw conclusions - Evaluate (Higher order thinking)
Communicate
Respond
Apply - Application
Reflect - Evaluate (Higher order thinking)

Knowledge and Understanding

Place and Space
Environments are defined by spatial patterns, human and physical interactions, and sustainable practices can balance human activity and environmental processes.

*Interrelationships between human activity and environments result in particular patterns of land and resource use and can cause environmental problems
*Governments and communities need to balance economic, social, political and environmental factors through sustainable development, consumption and production.