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.
You are going to demonstrate your understanding of findings of a social inquiry related to the flow of ideas and opinions on social media. You will explain and evaluate these findings by answering a focus question that you have formulated prior to this Assessment Activity.
Throughout your inquiry, you will have gathered evidence from primary and secondary sources related to your social inquiry focus question. You will have selected and processed this evidence in order to generate your findings to answer your focus question.
To explain and evaluate your findings, you should:
- give detailed information about your findings that directly acknowledge and answer your focus question
- examine your focus question further by making judgements. This involves:
- making critical connections between your ideas
- drawing well-reasoned conclusions.
- use evidence from primary and secondary sources to develop your explanations:
- to ensure you have valid evidence to develop your explanation, you will have recorded the details of sources used, such as the names of people interviewed, their roles, the date and time, or the title, author, year, and place. These details will vary depending on the type of source.
You are going to demonstrate your understanding of findings of a social inquiry related to the flow of ideas and opinions on social media. You will explain and evaluate these findings by answering a focus question that you have formulated prior to this Assessment Activity.
Throughout your inquiry, you will have gathered evidence from primary and secondary sources related to your social inquiry focus question. You will have selected and processed this evidence in order to generate your findings to answer your focus question.
To explain and evaluate your findings, you should:
- give detailed information about your findings that directly acknowledge and answer your focus question
- examine your focus question further by making judgements. This involves:
- making critical connections between your ideas
- drawing well-reasoned conclusions.
- use evidence from primary and secondary sources to develop your explanations:
- to ensure you have valid evidence to develop your explanation, you will have recorded the details of sources used, such as the names of people interviewed, their roles, the date and time, or the title, author, year, and place. These details will vary depending on the type of source.
How to present your learning
You can use a variety of ways to communicate your findings, such as:
- an oral presentation with supporting visuals (3-4 minutes)
- a written report including visuals (within 750-800 words)
- a digital presentation including visuals (check with your kaiako to ensure you meet guidelines).
You can use a variety of ways to communicate your findings, such as:
- an oral presentation with supporting visuals (3-4 minutes)
- a written report including visuals (within 750-800 words)
- a digital presentation including visuals (check with your kaiako to ensure you meet guidelines).
Timeframe
You will have up to three weeks of class time to complete this Assessment Activity.
You will have up to three weeks of class time to complete this Assessment Activity.
Getting started
- Develop a challenging focus question for your social inquiry with help from your kaiako.
- Discuss Social Studies concepts that may be relevant to the focus of your inquiry such as tuakiritanga, whakapapa, kotahitanga, mana, mana motuhake, culture, and change.
- Create a template to record the details of the sources you use.
- Consider what perspectives and knowledge are important to this social inquiry and how you might integrate that into your selection of sources, findings, and evaluation.
- Identify an appropriate inquiry framework for your chosen context that you could apply which considers the people at the centre of the issue.
- Explore social media to get an understanding of ideas that are spreading via different platforms.
- Brainstorm who you might be able to talk to, how you will contact them, and what you may ask.
- Develop a challenging focus question for your social inquiry with help from your kaiako.
- Discuss Social Studies concepts that may be relevant to the focus of your inquiry such as tuakiritanga, whakapapa, kotahitanga, mana, mana motuhake, culture, and change.
- Create a template to record the details of the sources you use.
- Consider what perspectives and knowledge are important to this social inquiry and how you might integrate that into your selection of sources, findings, and evaluation.
- Identify an appropriate inquiry framework for your chosen context that you could apply which considers the people at the centre of the issue.
- Explore social media to get an understanding of ideas that are spreading via different platforms.
- Brainstorm who you might be able to talk to, how you will contact them, and what you may ask.
What to do
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.
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.
You are going to demonstrate your understanding of findings of a social inquiry related to the flow of ideas and opinions on social media. You will explain and evaluate these findings by answering a focus question that you have formulated prior to this Assessment Activity.
Throughout your inquiry, you will have gathered evidence from primary and secondary sources related to your social inquiry focus question. You will have selected and processed this evidence in order to generate your findings to answer your focus question.
To explain and evaluate your findings, you should:
- give detailed information about your findings that directly acknowledge and answer your focus question
- examine your focus question further by making judgements. This involves:
- making critical connections between your ideas
- drawing well-reasoned conclusions.
- use evidence from primary and secondary sources to develop your explanations:
- to ensure you have valid evidence to develop your explanation, you will have recorded the details of sources used, such as the names of people interviewed, their roles, the date and time, or the title, author, year, and place. These details will vary depending on the type of source.
You are going to demonstrate your understanding of findings of a social inquiry related to the flow of ideas and opinions on social media. You will explain and evaluate these findings by answering a focus question that you have formulated prior to this Assessment Activity.
Throughout your inquiry, you will have gathered evidence from primary and secondary sources related to your social inquiry focus question. You will have selected and processed this evidence in order to generate your findings to answer your focus question.
To explain and evaluate your findings, you should:
- give detailed information about your findings that directly acknowledge and answer your focus question
- examine your focus question further by making judgements. This involves:
- making critical connections between your ideas
- drawing well-reasoned conclusions.
- use evidence from primary and secondary sources to develop your explanations:
- to ensure you have valid evidence to develop your explanation, you will have recorded the details of sources used, such as the names of people interviewed, their roles, the date and time, or the title, author, year, and place. These details will vary depending on the type of source.
How to present your learning
You can use a variety of ways to communicate your findings, such as:
- an oral presentation with supporting visuals (3-4 minutes)
- a written report including visuals (within 750-800 words)
- a digital presentation including visuals (check with your kaiako to ensure you meet guidelines).
You can use a variety of ways to communicate your findings, such as:
- an oral presentation with supporting visuals (3-4 minutes)
- a written report including visuals (within 750-800 words)
- a digital presentation including visuals (check with your kaiako to ensure you meet guidelines).
Timeframe
You will have up to three weeks of class time to complete this Assessment Activity.
You will have up to three weeks of class time to complete this Assessment Activity.
Getting started
- Develop a challenging focus question for your social inquiry with help from your kaiako.
- Discuss Social Studies concepts that may be relevant to the focus of your inquiry such as tuakiritanga, whakapapa, kotahitanga, mana, mana motuhake, culture, and change.
- Create a template to record the details of the sources you use.
- Consider what perspectives and knowledge are important to this social inquiry and how you might integrate that into your selection of sources, findings, and evaluation.
- Identify an appropriate inquiry framework for your chosen context that you could apply which considers the people at the centre of the issue.
- Explore social media to get an understanding of ideas that are spreading via different platforms.
- Brainstorm who you might be able to talk to, how you will contact them, and what you may ask.
- Develop a challenging focus question for your social inquiry with help from your kaiako.
- Discuss Social Studies concepts that may be relevant to the focus of your inquiry such as tuakiritanga, whakapapa, kotahitanga, mana, mana motuhake, culture, and change.
- Create a template to record the details of the sources you use.
- Consider what perspectives and knowledge are important to this social inquiry and how you might integrate that into your selection of sources, findings, and evaluation.
- Identify an appropriate inquiry framework for your chosen context that you could apply which considers the people at the centre of the issue.
- Explore social media to get an understanding of ideas that are spreading via different platforms.
- Brainstorm who you might be able to talk to, how you will contact them, and what you may ask.