The Unit aims to assist Stage 2 students in the construction of a PowerPoint presentation that will include image, animation, voice, text, and video. In order to do this, students will be focusing on the H.S.I.E outcome ENS2.5: Describes places in the local area and other parts of Australia and explains their significance. The unit will consist of ten lessons that work to develop student understanding of the Australian States and Territories and their famous landmarks, as well as written and visual features, to create an effective multimodal text (PowerPoint presentation). Lesson One: Students will be introduced to the unit through the picture book “Are we there yet?” by Alison Lester. This resource is utilised in order to engage students with ideas relating to the sheer size of Australia, but also the wealth of natural and built environments, our country has to offer. This book will allow the opportunity for students to be engaged in a range of activities such as role-play, group work and the reading of the text itself. *Resource: "Are we there yet?" by Alison Lester
Lesson Two:
The second lesson, is a clear and logical progression from the introductory lesson. The students, will be exposed to the written grammatical features of a travel brochure. This experience will provide students with the opportunity to explore and analyse the way in which texts are created to provide information for and promote Australian States and Territories. This is important, for the later planning and construction of their own multimodal text on an Australian State or Territory. *Resource: Travel brochure
Lesson Three:Continuing on with the previous lesson on travel brochures, this lesson's aim focuses on the importance of images and text working together in advertising. Students learn to find relevant information within the brochures using the images and the layout. With the information gained, the students will be able to identify important features in the text-image relationship, which will aid the final construction of the multi modal text.*Resource: travel brochureLesson Four:
This lesson will explicitly teach students how to analyse and critique Compositional Visual Grammar. Students will be taught appropriate terminology to identify Compositional grammar and be given the opportunity to analyse images as a class and in small groups before putting their news skills to the test in designing a one-page promotional spread in preparation for their final project; promoting their chosen State or Territory.*Resource: series of image
Lesson Five:
This lesson will explore the power of visual media, to promote an Australian State or Territory key landmarks and features. This experience will ensure students become accustomed with techniques associated with visual media, in the attempt to create their own 'Virtual Tour' presentations on a specific Australian State or Territory in subsequent lessons. *Resource: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Tourism Video (found on YouTube)
Lesson Six:
This lesson, will revisit some of the features of Microsoft PowerPoint. Students should have some understanding of this software, due to specialist teaching of this technology in the Release from Face to Face teaching subject of Computer.
Lesson Seven:
This lesson will see students starting to create a storyboard of information they wish to include in their multimodal presentation. This planning phase is vital to the success of the overall creation and construction of the multimodal presentation.
Lesson Eight:
The lesson, will see the students using the storyboards they created in the previous lesson, to begin to create their own PowerPoint presentation on one of the Australian States or Territories.
Lesson Nine:
The lesson, will see students, continue to work on their creations, adding in video, audio (*if time permits), videos, and animations to make it the most interesting presentation they can. Towards the end of the lesson, the students will save their presentations, to the teachers computer.
Lesson Ten:
This lesson, will see the presentation of all the students' PowerPoint presentations. Once all the presentations are viewed, they will be watched for a second time, so they can be assessed according to the marking criteria, which the students and teacher created at the start of the unit.
Unit Outline
The Unit aims to assist Stage 2 students in the construction of a PowerPoint presentation that will include image, animation, voice, text, and video. In order to do this, students will be focusing on the H.S.I.E outcome ENS2.5: Describes places in the local area and other parts of Australia and explains their significance. The unit will consist of ten lessons that work to develop student understanding of the Australian States and Territories and their famous landmarks, as well as written and visual features, to create an effective multimodal text (PowerPoint presentation).
Lesson One:
Students will be introduced to the unit through the picture book “Are we there yet?” by Alison Lester. This resource is utilised in order to engage students with ideas relating to the sheer size of Australia, but also the wealth of natural and built environments, our country has to offer. This book will allow the opportunity for students to be engaged in a range of activities such as role-play, group work and the reading of the text itself. *Resource: "Are we there yet?" by Alison Lester
Lesson Two:
The second lesson, is a clear and logical progression from the introductory lesson. The students, will be exposed to the written grammatical features of a travel brochure. This experience will provide students with the opportunity to explore and analyse the way in which texts are created to provide information for and promote Australian States and Territories. This is important, for the later planning and construction of their own multimodal text on an Australian State or Territory. *Resource: Travel brochureLesson Three:Continuing on with the previous lesson on travel brochures, this lesson's aim focuses on the importance of images and text working together in advertising. Students learn to find relevant information within the brochures using the images and the layout. With the information gained, the students will be able to identify important features in the text-image relationship, which will aid the final construction of the multi modal text.*Resource: travel brochure Lesson Four:
This lesson will explicitly teach students how to analyse and critique Compositional Visual Grammar. Students will be taught appropriate terminology to identify Compositional grammar and be given the opportunity to analyse images as a class and in small groups before putting their news skills to the test in designing a one-page promotional spread in preparation for their final project; promoting their chosen State or Territory.*Resource: series of imageLesson Five:
This lesson will explore the power of visual media, to promote an Australian State or Territory key landmarks and features. This experience will ensure students become accustomed with techniques associated with visual media, in the attempt to create their own 'Virtual Tour' presentations on a specific Australian State or Territory in subsequent lessons. *Resource: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Tourism Video (found on YouTube)Lesson Six:
This lesson, will revisit some of the features of Microsoft PowerPoint. Students should have some understanding of this software, due to specialist teaching of this technology in the Release from Face to Face teaching subject of Computer.Lesson Seven:
This lesson will see students starting to create a storyboard of information they wish to include in their multimodal presentation. This planning phase is vital to the success of the overall creation and construction of the multimodal presentation.Lesson Eight:
The lesson, will see the students using the storyboards they created in the previous lesson, to begin to create their own PowerPoint presentation on one of the Australian States or Territories.Lesson Nine:
The lesson, will see students, continue to work on their creations, adding in video, audio (*if time permits), videos, and animations to make it the most interesting presentation they can. Towards the end of the lesson, the students will save their presentations, to the teachers computer.Lesson Ten:
This lesson, will see the presentation of all the students' PowerPoint presentations. Once all the presentations are viewed, they will be watched for a second time, so they can be assessed according to the marking criteria, which the students and teacher created at the start of the unit.