Lesson+7

=__**Lesson 7 - Considering Social Action **__=


 * **Learning Focus: ** This lesson will focus on discussing what they have learnt over the previous lessons and excursion on the Australian Wool Industry. Students will also learn about the media and there role in getting information out into the community. ||


 * **Objectives:** It is expected that students will have a strong understand of the use of the media and journalists in getting information out to the world. Students will also be able to talk about the learning that they have received over the past few lessons on the Australian Wool Industry. ||

Ask questions such as: Why might someone hold a press conference? What do people do at a press conference? What kind of questions are asked at press conferences? || Whiteboard Whiteboard Markers Prepared Questions || Get the journalist to ask the students questions about what they have learnt to get them to think deeply about the Australian Wool Industry. Questions such as: What was the focus of your learning? What do you feel taught you the most about this topic? What is something that you learn that you didn't know before? What was good about your excursion? ||  || Get the journalist to create a article about the students learning about the Australian Wool Industry. ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Timing ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Student Activities ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Teacher Activities ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Resources ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">5 Mins || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Discuss what the 'media' is. || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Have a discussion with the students about what the media is and what they do. ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">10 Mins || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Participate in a brainstorm of what a press conference is. || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Create a brainstorm of what a press conference is and have they seen one before?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">5 Mins || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Listen to teacher || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Lead into journalists and discussing the people who write for the newspaper. Introduce the special guest for the lesson from the local newspaper. || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Journalist form the local news paper ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">5 Mins || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Listen to the journalist || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Ask the journalist to explain what they do for the newspaper and how they play a role in informing people about the world. ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">15 Mins || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">A small group of students at a time get the chance to come to the front of the class and get interviewed by the journalist about what they have learnt about the Australian Wool Industry. Other students watch the interview and think about how they would answer the questions being asked. || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Get students into small groups and explain that they will be interviewed by the journalist. Explain to students that one group will get interviewed one at a time while the rest of the class watch the interview.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">1 Min || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Thank the guest for coming || <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Thank the journalist for coming and get the students to also thank the journalist.