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Images of Asia: Rules and Symbols
This unit starts with the familiar then branches out to the countries of Asia, exploring rules to do with classrooms, games and families. It introduces cultural symbols and the rules associated with them. Students will discuss the purpose of rules. They will look at why people form groups and cooperate and identify shared community values that help them live and work together. This unit dovetails with current teaching methods that focus on rules within a civics and citizenship education approach.
Index
- Preparing
- Gathering, exploring and interpreting
- Responding, reporting and reflecting
- Links
- Assessment
Unit Overview
Stage of Schooling
Lower Primary
Learning Focus
Systems, Resources and Power (Asia Scope and Sequence for Studies of Society and Environment, p21);
Culture (Asia Scope and Sequence for Studies of Society and Environment, p22)
Elaborations
Students explore the context of rules, the reasons why we have rules, how rules are made and by whom in familiar contexts and compare these with similar contexts in a country of Asia.
Students evaluate the fairness of some rules and the punishments for breaking rules in familiar contexts (e.g. games, family, classroom, school) and compare these to examples from a country in Asia.
Students investigate symbols and icons that have special meaning for particular peoples and cultures in Asia.
Resources
- Snapshots of Asia (Curriculum Corporation, 2001)
- The Really Big Beliefs Project (Curriculum Corporation, 2005)
- The Really Big Food Project (Curriculum Corporation, 2004)
- Images of Asia: Symbols, Patterns and Designs (Curriculum Corporation, 2004)
- Asia Counts: Primary (Curriculum Corporation, 2001)
- Vietnam: Young People, Old Country: Primary (Curriculum Corporation, 1997)
- A Thai Journey (Curriculum Corporation, 1998)
- School's Out (Curriculum Corporation, 1995)
- Voices and Values: Citizenship in Asia (Curriculum Corporation, 1998)
- Discovering Democracy: 'Rules and Laws' Unit
- Make the rules: fair play, Curriculum Corporation, 2005, The Le@rning Federation learning object L1007
- Make the rules: keep it fair, Curriculum Corporation, 2005, The Le@rning Federation learning object L1033
- Art materials, including large sheets of paper, cardboard, pencils, textas, paint, scissors and blu-tac
- Magazines and travel brochures
Accessing the Learning Federation materials
The Learning Federation provides teachers with online learning objects. Teachers will need to contact their State/Territory representative to register and gain access to these objects. The process for accessing learning objects is further explained on The Learning Federation's website, www.thelearningfederation.edu.au.
Focus questions
Why do we have rules? How are they made? Who makes them? What do we learn about cultures by looking at their rules and mores?
Overview
This unit dovetails with current teaching that focuses on rules and supports the national Statements of Learning for Civics and Citizenship. It starts with the familiar then branches into countries of Asia contexts, exploring rules associated with classrooms, games and families, and introduces the area of cultural symbols and associated rules. Students are given the opportunity to discuss the purpose of rules. They can explore why people form groups and co-operate and identify shared community values that help people live and work together harmoniously. By looking at cultures other than our own, students understand that there are many universal rules shared by humankind with cultural contexts introducing aspects of difference.
Duration
This unit will take 10-12 hours.
