Wednesday 7 May 2014

9. Line My Time

ACTIVITY ONE- Group it


1. NEW CAMPFIRE GROUPS.                                4 people
a- Write your birthday down on a piece of paper.
b- Now line up people from youngest to oldest.
--> Did you all write down your birthdays the same?
--> Was it easier to line up once you all wrote down your birthdays the same?

2. JOIN TWO CAMPFIRE GROUPS                       8 people
a- Line up people from youngest to oldest.

3. JOIN THREE CAMPFIRE GROUPS                  12 people
a- Line up people from youngest to oldest.

4. JOIN FOUR CAMPFIRE GROUPS                    16 people
a- Line up people from youngest to oldest.

5. JOIN FIVE CAMPFIRE GROUPS                      20 people
a- Line up people from youngest to oldest.

6. JOIN SIX CAMPFIRE GROUPS                        24 people
a- Line up people from youngest to oldest.

7. JOIN SEVEN CAMPFIRE GROUPS                  28 people
a- Line up people from youngest to oldest.

ACTIVITY TWO- Line it 

a- Take a photo of the people lined up.
b- Place a piece of masking tape on the floor (in a straight line in front of people)
c- Each person standing in line marks INITIAL and line on it
d- Take a photo of the line and markings.

ACTIVITY THREE- What is a time line? 

Discuss as a class-
- Why do we have time lines?
- Why is it important for historians (people who study the past)?


ACTIVITY FOUR- Back in my time

1. Create a Blog post "9. Line My Time". Sit next to three people who were born on/ close to your birthday.
2. Upload photo of students lined up and masking tap on floor.
3. Up load the words to the hit song from the day you were born.


Google: “Popular song in ------------- in Australia” 



4. Upload a picture of the band/ singer who recorded the song.
5. HEADPHONES- Listen to the song.

HOMEWORK

Ask your parents to listen to the song from your iPad
1- Do they know the song?
2-  If they do,know the song, ask them what did they remember from that time?
     If they don't know the song, why do you think they do not know it?
Write in Post 9 the answers to the questions above.









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