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YEAR 10, 2009
Facing the future: Shaping the Future
An Inquiry-based Project
What is it?• It is a Collaborative Learning Project
(CLP) that has a future focus and a global one.
• It’s an opportunity to be involved in hands-on research in an area of particular interest to you
• You will be investigating a key question or problem from an area of shared interest.
Focus Areas
• This area of interest will be based on your own reflections about:
• what matters to you – eg environmental concerns, business and finance,
• what you would like to know more about – eg astronomy; higher order mathematics; world literature; philosophy
• what you might like to better at – eg creative writing; dramatic or musical performance; multimedia technologies; visual arts; design
Focus areas: eg fashion/design,
textiles/Business
Your Project will be an open-ended and in-depth inquiry, guided by your teachers.
• It will have these features:
• 1. Real world in a global context – Speak to/liaise with people outside school
community– Involve interviews or surveys; global
resources of a ‘primary nature’ (eg OECD data)
– Issue itself can be a current global one
You will become an expert in your field through collaboration:
Each person in group takes one of the big questions from their investigation – become the expertExperts come together to share (no one is doing the same thing as anyone else in group)Collaborative – not just cooperative
Being connected with the wider world
Experts in the fieldWorkshopsUniversityExcursions to different places and spacesStudents in other places (eg those you’ve
met on exchange)Think of City Experience+, Broken Hill+Now you’re taking on the world
You will use web2 technology
When is it?Term 4
Week 1 Year 10 work
Week 2 Year 10 work
Week 3 Camp
Week 4 School Certificate; Year 10 Formal
Week 5 Futures Project
Week 6 Futures Project
Week 7 Futures Project
Week 8 Conference presentations
How can you be
involved?
• Speak to your House representative on the Student Reference Group
• Add your suggestions to the online planning unit
• Help suggest a name and logo for the project
• Be involved in focus group discussions