What to do

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Note to teacher: This Internal Assessment Activity may be used unchanged, or can be adapted by the teacher, ensuring that all requirements of the Achievement Standard are still met. This textbox should be removed prior to sharing the activity with your students.

Your task is to engage with a variety of primary sources related to the focus question:

How does your local area remember and commemorate past conflicts?

Do this by:

  • selecting at least FIVE appropriate primary sources that are relevant to this focus question. You will need to ensure you have selected a variety of primary source types such as oral history traditions, artefacts, different types of written sources, and different types of visual sources.
  • identifying the main ideas in the evidence related to the focus question How does your local area remembers and commemorates past conflicts and its relevancy to the focus question. Communicate this in annotations for each source.
  • explaining the strengths and limitations of your chosen primary sources where appropriate. How reliable are your chosen sources? How relevant are they to your focus question? Are they biased? Some strengths and limitations of sources to consider in your response include:
    • how a source uses facts
    • whether these facts have been verified
    • the source, or source creator’s, perspective on the details, and wider context, of the source
    • whether the source is biased or uses propaganda
    • whether the source lacks detail or has gaps.
  • making connections between sources. This could include examining:
    • similarities between the main ideas in your chosen sources
    • differences between main ideas your chosen sources
    • a combination of both.
  • reflecting on the strengths and limitations of the chosen sources across the collection as a whole. A collective assessment of all the sources may be done as a summary paragraph or through annotations.

Your task is to engage with a variety of primary sources related to the focus question:

How does your local area remember and commemorate past conflicts?

Do this by:

  • selecting at least FIVE appropriate primary sources that are relevant to this focus question. You will need to ensure you have selected a variety of primary source types such as oral history traditions, artefacts, different types of written sources, and different types of visual sources.
  • identifying the main ideas in the evidence related to the focus question How does your local area remembers and commemorates past conflicts and its relevancy to the focus question. Communicate this in annotations for each source.
  • explaining the strengths and limitations of your chosen primary sources where appropriate. How reliable are your chosen sources? How relevant are they to your focus question? Are they biased? Some strengths and limitations of sources to consider in your response include:
    • how a source uses facts
    • whether these facts have been verified
    • the source, or source creator’s, perspective on the details, and wider context, of the source
    • whether the source is biased or uses propaganda
    • whether the source lacks detail or has gaps.
  • making connections between sources. This could include examining:
    • similarities between the main ideas in your chosen sources
    • differences between main ideas your chosen sources
    • a combination of both.
  • reflecting on the strengths and limitations of the chosen sources across the collection as a whole. A collective assessment of all the sources may be done as a summary paragraph or through annotations.

How to present your learning

Option 1:

  • Prepare a 3-4 minute long digital audio-visual presentation.
  • Support the images of your sources with a kōrero, which could be pre-recorded or delivered in-person.
  • Submit your digital presentation to your kaiako.

Option 2:

  • Highlight and annotate relevant information on your chosen sources.
  • Your annotations can be digital or written.
  • Your source annotations should total no more than 750-800 words.
  • Present your collection of annotated resources to your kaiako in a folder (digital or hard copy).

Option 3:

  • Prepare a 3-4 minute long voice recording or oral presentation.
  • You will need to submit digital or hard copies of your chosen sources.
  • Submit your voice recording or oral presentation to your kaiako.

It is good practice to provide brief source details of the evidence you use.

Option 1:

  • Prepare a 3-4 minute long digital audio-visual presentation.
  • Support the images of your sources with a kōrero, which could be pre-recorded or delivered in-person.
  • Submit your digital presentation to your kaiako.

Option 2:

  • Highlight and annotate relevant information on your chosen sources.
  • Your annotations can be digital or written.
  • Your source annotations should total no more than 750-800 words.
  • Present your collection of annotated resources to your kaiako in a folder (digital or hard copy).

Option 3:

  • Prepare a 3-4 minute long voice recording or oral presentation.
  • You will need to submit digital or hard copies of your chosen sources.
  • Submit your voice recording or oral presentation to your kaiako.

It is good practice to provide brief source details of the evidence you use.

Timeframe

Your kaiako will provide details of the assessment duration and checkpoints, as well as the final submission date.

Your kaiako will provide details of the assessment duration and checkpoints, as well as the final submission date.

Getting started

Consider the topic content you have covered in class about war and conflict:

  • What wars and conflicts do you know about?
  • What are some of the ways people’s lives have been affected by war and conflict?
  • What are some of the different types of primary sources that you could expect to find that relate to the remembering or commemorating of war and conflict?

Now you are ready to take the next steps and begin to think about possible sources. Some primary sources of historical evidence you may wish to consider include:

  • waiata
  • haka
  • poetry
  • artefacts
  • newspaper articles
  • photographs
  • cartoons
  • television coverage
  • oral interviews.

Reflect on these possible sources. You might start by identifying what information is within the sources and consider the extent it helps you to answer your focus question.

Consider the topic content you have covered in class about war and conflict:

  • What wars and conflicts do you know about?
  • What are some of the ways people’s lives have been affected by war and conflict?
  • What are some of the different types of primary sources that you could expect to find that relate to the remembering or commemorating of war and conflict?

Now you are ready to take the next steps and begin to think about possible sources. Some primary sources of historical evidence you may wish to consider include:

  • waiata
  • haka
  • poetry
  • artefacts
  • newspaper articles
  • photographs
  • cartoons
  • television coverage
  • oral interviews.

Reflect on these possible sources. You might start by identifying what information is within the sources and consider the extent it helps you to answer your focus question.

Student resources

You may consider gathering sources from the following:

  • museums
  • local libraries
  • iwi or hapū representatives
  • The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association (RSA)
  • cemeteries
  • memorials.

You may consider gathering sources from the following:

  • museums
  • local libraries
  • iwi or hapū representatives
  • The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association (RSA)
  • cemeteries
  • memorials.