DUE DATE: Week 9 -Wednesday 2nd September 2015
Key Question:
What contribution have significant individuals and groups made to the development of Australian society?
What contribution have significant individuals and groups made to the development of Australian society?
Research Task:
Create a biography of an Australian Prime Minister.
Q: What is a biography?
A: An account of someone's life written by someone else.
Create a biography of an Australian Prime Minister.
Q: What is a biography?
A: An account of someone's life written by someone else.
Each student will be given the name of an Australian Prime Minister to research.
Information to be researched and included:
Note: You can add two other headings relating to your Prime Minister, but remember you must finish in the time allocated.
Marking Criteria:
- Early Life: date of birth, place of birth, education, family.
- Years as Prime Minister and how they came to power.
- Political party they belong to and what area did they represent (e.g. Member for Macarthur).
- Three major achievements as Prime Minister.
- Three Interesting Facts.
- Images/Video/Audio
- Bibliography listing where you found your information.
Note: You can add two other headings relating to your Prime Minister, but remember you must finish in the time allocated.
Marking Criteria:
- Quality and originality of information.
- Variety and reliability of sources used to collect information (.edu, .gov, .org). NO WIKIPEDIA!
- References.
- Layout and creativity using Glogster.
- Submitted by the due date.
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Getting Started…
Look at the Information Skills Process below to understand the important steps of research.
Look at the Information Skills Process below to understand the important steps of research.
Step 1. DEFINING
- What is my purpose?
- Why do I need to find this out?
- What are the key words and ideas of the task?
- What do I need to do?
Step 2. LOCATING
- What do I already know?
- What do I still need to find out?
- What sources and equipment can I use?
Step 3. SELECTING
- What information can I leave out?
- How relevant is the information I have found?
- How credible is the information I have found?
- How will I record the information I need?
Step 4. ORGANISING
- Have I enough information for my purpose?
- Do I need to use all this information?
- How can I best combine information from different sources?
Step 5. PRESENTING
- What will I do with this information?
- With whom will I share this information?
Step 6. ASSESSING
- Did I fulfil my purpose?
- How did I go - with each step of the information process?
- How did I go - presenting the information?
- Where do I go from here
Presentation and Assessment
- You will need to create your prime minister biography using Glogster.
- You will need to present a 1 minute talk and your Glogster to the class about the prime minister you have researched.