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Unit Outline Students will be working towards creating a multimodal text which involves the production of a scale model of a town with a support booklet. The unit will be focussed around the goods and services content of the HSIE syllabus, within the Social Systems and Structures strand and the Resource Systems sub-strand. The unit will also incorporate elements from the Environments strand in the HSIE syllabus. The multimodal text construction will have strong affiliations with the Design and Make component of the Science and technology syllabus. Each lesson is a progression of the previous, building student knowledge and conceptual understanding with the final project involving students working together in small groups, each with a focus area based on previous learning in the unit. The students will be broken into 8 groups:
 * Resource Systems**
 * Social Structures- SSS2.7 -** //Describes how and why people and technologies interact to meet needs and explains the effects of these interactions on people and the environment//

- Health services: doctors, dentist, optometrist - Emergency services: hospital, ambulance, police, fire - Educational services: pre-school, primary school, high school, libraries - Suburban areas: housing, parks - Utilities: water and electricity plants and their applications- public toilets, power lines - Transport: bus stops, train line - Necessities: supermarket, petrol station - Entertainment: cinemas, shopping centres, community pools

**Patterns of Place and Location** **Environments- ENS2.5**- //Describes places in the local and other parts of Australia and explains their significance.//


 * compares ways in which members of the community use features of the local area to meet their needs
 * describes how people can construct and modify environments in a manner that reflects ideas, culture, needs and wants, eg designs of playgrounds, gardens
 * describes how people can construct and modify environments in a manner that reflects ideas, culture, needs and wants, eg designs of playgrounds, gardens
 * compares natural and built features, sites and places

These ten lessons outlined are not the only lessons in the sequence, but are the lead up to the research and creation of the multimodal text. Depending on student understanding, lesson sequence can be altered and changed. Furthermore, the follow up work can allow in depth research and presentation to the class allowing every student to claim ownership over a part of the town and become the expert. Within their groups, students are able to develop further ideas, with the above lists just suggestions and starting points for research. This will create meaningful learning with a specific purpose that allows creative expression and understanding as their learning is relevant to the multimodal text to be completed.

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