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The Year 3 Ned Kelly Authentic Learning Task Create a Podcast of an alternative ending to Ned Kelly's story to use with MP3 technologies, and present the Podcast as a class gift to the library at a Parent and VIPs Presentation Evening held during Book Week in term three. Over the term you will learn about the history of Australia's famous bush ranger, Ned Kelly. You will complete tasks on events in his life, what he looked like, and what happened to him. You will research Ned Kelly and use information from your activities to re write the ending of a narrative about the life of Ned Kelly. The narrative and pictures you create will be uploaded to a Podcast and launched at a Parents and VIPs Presentation Night in the library, during Book Week in term three.

Suggested Lesson Plan Week 1: Introductory lesson to the topic of Ned Kelly. Students will read books as a whole class about Ned Kelly to develop an understanding of the history of Ned Kelly. This should take a few lessons as students need to read a range of books to develop a good understanding.

Week 2: Students form expert groups and research facts about Ned Kelly using the internet. From here they create a mind map on butcher paper. Students share their mind map with other groups.

Week 3: Students will remain in there expert groups and make a mind maps on one of the following: Who was Ned Kelly? Where did Ned Kelly come from? When- Any important dates in Ned Kelly's life? What was Ned Kelly famous for? Why did Ned Kelly do what he did?

Week 4: Whole class discussion on researched information presented in mind maps.

Week 5: As a class students use the information presented in mind maps to make a timeline of Ned Kelly's life.

 Week 6: This task requires students to draw a picture of Ned Kelly as how they see him. Add colours that portray him.

Week 7: Guilty or Innocent Vote. One wall is labelled Innocent, the other Guilty. Students hang their pictures up on one of two walls according to their judgement of Ned Kelly. A class discussion follows.

Week 8: As a class, a narrative on Ned Kelly will be written. The teacher will write this on a smart board as the student decided what is written. (Using information from the mind maps and timeline from previous lessons).

Week 9: Students write their alternative ending to the narrative created as a class. Once the narrative is complete, the narrative and artwork will be uploaded to the Podcast. Students review and tweak their final product.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Week 10: Create invitations to invite parents and VIPs to the Podcast launch at a Presentation Night held in the school library, coinciding with Book Week.

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> The Ned Kelly Tasks Outline <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Lesson plan for each tasks are provided. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Online resource and maths ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">week 1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Intro to Ned Kelly || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Books and articles are read to students and read by students. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">week 2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Research facts || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Mind maps, paper ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">week 3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Discuss what we know || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Who, what when where why, (each group has one.) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">week 4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Class discussing || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Mind map. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">week 5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Class timeline || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Students to participate as a class. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">week 6 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Character building || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Picture of Ned Kelly used in final product. Drawn how he is perceived. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">week 7 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Vote || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Good/bad. .putting pictures on innocent/guilty wall.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">week 8 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teacher writes narrative as a class || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Teacher adds all info from mind map timeline into narrative as a class ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">week 9 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Write story with alternative ending || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How to write an ending. ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Finalise <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Podcast || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Write ending from what they know ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">week 10 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Parent presentation evening || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">On iPods. Teacher have first part of story, children’s draw pictures. Children then have alternatives ending. ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Here is a PDF containing lesson plans to help get you started and on track. Lesson plans can easily be adjusted to suit your classroom and classroom needs.