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Who is your “Australian hero?” Tuning In: The start of the first activity begins with viewing the [|YouTube] clips and reading some information about Mary MacKillop that is provided on the resource page. Use this as a model to show what type of person the students should be considering to choose for their “Australian Hero”. Ask students to use the links on the resource page to decide on who they will be choosing as their hero and print out some important information.

 Finding out

The finding out stage requires the students to use their computer time and use [|Wordle] to make a word cloud for their hero. Direct them to sort through their information and pick out words that best describe who their hero was, what they did and what other people thought of them. Students will each represent their word cloud to the rest of the class, then add them to their SOSE books.

Sorting Out: Using the information from the resource page as well as that which the students have researched and collected themselves, students will pick out important events in the life of their chosen hero. Using [|XTimeline], the students will compile information into a timeline to show significant events that occurred over their life.

Making Connections: Using the information gained from the Wordle and XTimeline activities, the students will spend some time at the school computers, as well as at home; to create a [|280slides] presentation on their chosen Australian Hero. The students will master the process of the program and select relevant and important information to include in their presentation. The presentations will then be shown to the class on the Interactive whiteboard.