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