Postcards From Asia (Front and Back)

 
This activity, using KidPix as a learning and thinking tool, has been aligned with the SACSA frameworks and is intended to provide the learning described below.

BAND - Primary Years
 

LEARNING AREAS STRANDS OUTCOMES
Society and Environment Place space and environment 2.4
The Arts Arts practice 2.1
Design and Technology Designing 2.3
English Texts and contexts, Language  2.4, 2.8
ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS EVE: Key Competencies LIT., NUM. AND ICT
In, F, T, C,  KC1, KC2, KC3, K4, KC5, KC6, KC7 LIT, ICT

KEY IDEAS
 

Society and Environment
Students examine natural and social environments in local and global communities, analysing patterns, systems and relationships.
The Arts
Students explore representations of real and imagined experiences. They create, plan or shape new and/or existing arts works to express ideas,feelings and events related to personal, social and environmental futures in local and global communities.
Design and Technology
Students reflect on their own work by clarifying and communicating their design ideas and their thinking and planning for products, processes and systems. They use effective design communication methods, including appropriate digital and electronic technologies.
English
Students compose a range of written texts which contain some interrelated ideas and information about familiar topics. They understand that certain text types are associated with with particular purposes and audiences and adjust writing accordingly.

Students plan and compose with increasing independence, a range of texts about familiar, new and imaginary experiences. They demonstrate knowledge about, and increasing control of, language choices in written texts.

STUDENT TASKS
Postcard Front
Pretend you are on a holiday in one of the Asian countries you have been learning about and that you have visited some interesting places.
Choose one of these places to draw on the front of a KidPix postcard to send to your classmates back at school.
Open the Postcard Front template and type in the name of the place.
Draw it using any tools you wish.
Postcard Back
On the back of the KidPix postcard, describe what you "saw" in the Asian country you "visited" to your classmates at school.
Open the Postcard Back template.
Write your message and information about the place you have chosen.
Add the address and draw a stamp and an Airmail sticker.
Include the date and type your name under your message.
Use any tools you wish.

EXAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK (YEAR 3)
by Tegan
by Nina
 
 © 2001 Jackie Miers
bobandco@health.on.net
December,  2001