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This pathfinder is an online curriculum resource.

Created to support: Year Level: ** 6 ** Transdisciplinary theme: **Sharing The Planet ** Central idea: **A concern for self and others motivates people to find peaceful solutions to conflict. **

This resource facilitates the following lines of inquiry:
 * the balance between satisfying personal needs and the needs of others
 * causes of conflict
 * conflict resolution and management
 * global conflict

** Thinking Skills **
Acquisition of knowledge (gaining specific facts, ideas, vocabulary)

** Research Skills **
Interpreting data (drawing conclusions from relationships and patterns that emerge from organised data)

** Communication Skills **
Reading (reading a variety of sources for information)

=** Student learning outcomes supported by this pathfinder **=


 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">1. “Students develop ICT capability as they learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately to access, create and communicate information and ideas, solve problems and work collaboratively in all learning areas at school, and in their lives beyond school.” (ACARA) **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students learn to investigate with ICT.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students use and navigate a digital pathfinder to locate & access information from a variety of mediated resources (print or electronic).
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students use a nominated search engine and basic search functions to locate and retrieve online information.


 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">2. "Students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems.” (ACARA) **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students learn to analyse, evaluate and synthesise information.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students use the resources provided and website evaluation criteria to consider and select information.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students learn to identify, explore and clarify questions and lines of inquiry.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students use the resources provided to identify and prioritise main ideas.


 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">3. “Students become literate as they develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to interpret and use language confidently for learning and communicating in and out of school and for participating effectively in society.” (ACARA) **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In this pathfinder, students are directed to understand and use new vocabulary.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students learn keywords, phrases and subject headings specifically related to the unit of inquiry topic.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students learn to use and understand keywords to define, locate and select appropriate information.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Created by G. Wardlaw, February, 2013. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">For more information contact the Jill Forster Learning Resource Centre, Sandringham House.

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