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Community and Health - Public Servant
Help the Commonwealth Public Service? How? Middle Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Information and Communication Technology Capability
Scenario:
You are meeting with a group
of employees from your chosen public service
department about becoming an employee. You will be given
7 minutes to address this group with a speech about how you can assist the
department. Australian Public Service - Agencies 2. Choose a specific department and research what the department is and what their employees do. Make sure you are writing notes as you will need this information for your presentation. 3. Using your information on your chosen department and what they do, brain storm ideas about why you want to work for them. 4. Begin writing your speech - keeping in mind you aren’t speaking about the department, you are speaking about how you can assist the department. 5. How will you present your findings and how you would assist. You have to be mindful that you do not appear "a know it all" or even arrogant. How will you present? 6. You will now present yourself to the group of employees* (Teachers will act as the employees)
What can you do for your school? Primary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
1. In our
materialistic society, we question why people enter public service. Why
would any one want to help others? others? Isn't this a 'What's in it for
me' society? 'Who cares?' is often asked about everything. What do you think about these statements? Discuss with a partner. 2. Reflection
Questions: 3. Discuss what is possible and what you can really do! Set about doing it, after obtaining permission from your teacher. Examples: Look at * the
Fred Hollows Award
Public Service - Public Speaking Primary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy 1. In pairs you will create a 3 minute presentation based on one of the public service departments below. You have will need to research what this department is, what this department does and any interesting facts about this department. The List of Departments:
2. Use Prezi or Nearpod to create your presentation
Between Two Worlds WebQuest: An Australian Perspective Re-write Middle Secondary
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Information and Communication Technology Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding Australian Curriculum General Capability: Intercultural Understanding Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Asian Priority Cooperative Learning Activity
This WebQuest is now at the
WebArchive - however, we have copied this original WQ for you -
Word
document;
1. As a group of 5 - 6 students, you are to convert this Canadian WebQuest to the current Australian scenario. This means that you are to read the WebQuest in total first. 2. Allocate the Roles - one for each of four students. The fifth student is to be the main researcher for Finding the Facts resources. The sixth student is to be the main graphic designer for the new website. You are to find relevant pictures, photos, and the way the whole WebQuest will be shown online. 3. Each role is to research Australian resources for "Step 2" - Seeing the Facts from Different Points of View and the resources for the Conclusion. You will need to work together to collect the resources for the Conclusion. [see step 5 below]. 4. You are now, as a group, going to re-write this WebQuest from an Australian point of view. This means that the language of the whole WebQuest is to change to this Australian focus. 5. At the moment, this WebQuest has 3.5 stars but needs to go to 5 stars. To do that, you need to add more critical & creative thinking skills and new technologies. You might also add an interesting and thought provoking task that relates to the Stolen Generation in the Conclusion. 6. Submit this new and exciting WebQuest to On the Job and see your names up in lights!
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