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This education resource is designed for teachers of primary students in years 7 and focuses on history specifically the ANZAC experience and campaign in the 1915 campaign of Gallipoli. Students use researched information to create their own power point, covering the main features of the campaign, the experiences of soldiers, and the ways in which Gallipoli is commemorated in Australia. From that powerpoint, which organises all the research they have collected, they must then create an interview with an ANZAC soldier. One student is the interviewer and the other takes the role of a soldier who talks about his experience of the Gallipoli war.
 * Topic:** World War I - ANZAC Soldiers
 * Subject Area:** History
 * Year:** 7
 * Time:** Approximately 9 weeks; including research, constructing power point, recording and presenting.
 * Technologies:** Internet, Powerpoint, Social networking site (Skype)
 * Scope and Sequence: **


 * See below:**



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= Our Task: = Through focussing on the Australian Curriculum- scope and sequence for year 7's, students will be researching an Anzac soldier and then conducting an interview based on the findings of their researched soldier. Students will be grouped in pairs, one will be the interviewer and the other who is being interviewed will take on the persona of the Anzac they have both researched. Each student will be researching through use of technologies such as the internet to view online ebooks, web pages and blogs to gather information for their interview. Once the students have gathered viable information they will put together a script based on their facts and findings. One student in the pair will take on the role of the interviewer, asking probing questions based on what life was like as a soldier, including food, lifestyle, and living conditions. The student being interviewed will need to have researched a specific soldier to answer all the questions correctly. Each student will need to have equally researched background to have a clear understanding for their presentation. The interview will be recorded using a computer based recording tool and it will be uploaded on to the class blog for other students to view.

= Students will learn things in the following areas through their research: =
 * //Geography://**
 * Location of Gallipoli/ World War I on the map.
 * //__History__://**
 * What Australia was like before the soldiers went to war, how people lived as opposed to how they live today.
 * What happened on the battlefront and how they mentally felt as a result of war.
 * Improvement in the world today as opposed to the world back then, and how, what the soldiers fought for, has changed the world today.
 * //__Technology__://**
 * How to search for information relating to war using an online resource (internet)
 * How to make a power point.
 * How to use interactive whiteboard
 * How to show powerpoint on class interactive whiteboard
 * How to create a Skype account and be involved in a conversation

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