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What will you do?

HASS, HPE, English 3, 4, 5, 6
In this activity, students will learn to express their emotions during frightening situations as well as how a soldier may have felt during the Gallipoli landing during WWI. Students will also learn about the terrain and conditions experienced by soldiers during the beach landing at Gallipoli.
Duration

60 minutes

Learning Goals

Students will develop an understanding of emotions that were felt by soldiers during the Gallipoli landings in World War I.

What you’ll need

Projector/Smartboard

Computer for Media

World Map or device to search for Gallipoli on Google Earth

Notebook and Pen/Pencils

Year level

Year 3, 4, 5, 6

Subjects

HASS

Cross Curriculum Priority

done Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

done Sustainability

done Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia

General capabilities

done Literacy

done Numeracy

done ICT Capability

done Critical and Creative Thinking

done Personal and Social Capability

done Ethical Understanding

done Intercultural Understanding

ACHASSI053 and ACHASSI074

Locate and collect information and data from different sources, including observations.

ACPPS056

Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships.

ACELY1682

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print, and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose.

ACELY1694

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features.

ACELY1704

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience.

ACELY1714

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience.

Activities

A Letter Home

In this activity, students reflect on what it would have been like as a young ANZAC who landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25, April, 1915. As part of this activity, students will write a letter to a loved one detailing their experience so far at Gallipoli.