Vietnam+Understood

VIETNAM UNDERSTOOD
 * **Task Type** || **Task** || **Due** ||
 * Assessment 1 - Historical Essay ||  || Week 6, Term 1 - Inclass under examination conditions ||
 * Assessment 2 - Fieldwork Report ||  || Week 2, Term 2 ||

Map of Vietnam [|CIA Factbook] Prezi Introduction to Vietnam ||
 * **Time** || **Students will learn about:** ||  || **Key Resources** ||
 * Weeks 1-2 || Introduction: Vietnam - geographical focus || * KWL: birth of a nation. Read the chapter notes here
 * Vietnam fact file
 * Birth of a nation: click here
 * Early Vietnamese kingdoms and Chinese control: click here
 * Vietnamese heroines: click here
 * Vietnam - a rice culture: click here
 * National Identity
 * Vietnam - a developing country: click here
 * Mapping
 * How to do a climate graph
 * Climate graph of Hanoi
 * Climate graph of Saigon
 * Template for climate graph || KWL - wallwisher
 * Weeks 3-5 || Vietnamese Identity || Students to receive the Assessment Task 1 - Historical Essay

Definition of identity: the distinctive character belonging to any given individual, or shared by all members of a particular social or cultural group.
Historical Focus Assessment 1: Background Building Library resources Click here to go to your bibliography template || [|Time Toast] || Geography Skills ||
 * Timeline of key events; for the key dates in Vietnamese history click here
 * Political Ideology - communism, socialism, democracy
 * The victims of war - click here
 * The push south: click here
 * European contact: click here
 * The French take control: click here
 * The struggle against France: click here
 * Development - capitalism
 * Phases of occupation - Chinese, French, Japanese and American
 * The American War: click here
 * The My Lai massacre: click here
 * Winning the peace: click here
 * 1) Primary and Secondary source gathering
 * 2) Library time
 * 3) Essay scaffolding
 * Week 6 || Assessment 1 - Inclass ||  ||   ||
 * Weeks 6 - 8 || Fieldwork and Camp Preparation || Students to receive Assessment 2 - Fieldwork Report
 * Map exploration - students explore maps relating to Vietnam, particularly areas they will be visiting.
 * School-Based Fieldwork Incursion
 * Introduction of biosphere and 4 spheres. Using maps, students explore Vietnam's hydrosphere and lithosphere, making predictions about what it will look like in reality.
 * Discussion on relevant terminology
 * Agrarian & urban societies
 * Traditional v modern
 * Sustainability
 * Focus on ONE indicator of economic development
 * Urbanisation
 * Land use
 * Tourism
 * Use of technology
 * Students gather secondary data prior to camp relating to one of these indicators || [[file:Lesson 2 - Field Sketching Worksheet.doc]]
 * Weeks 9-10 || Camp OR Sustainable Development ||  || [[file:Year 8 Humanities sustainable tourism unit.docx]] ||
 * Term 2 - Week 1 || Camp Debrief || Students are given the opportunity to collate primary and secondary data collected prior and during camp. ||  ||
 * Term 2 - Week 2 || Assessment 2 - Fieldwork Report ||  ||   ||