Provocations

**Provocations**
__Reception/Foundation:__ Exploring conserving water. We turned off the water in the Reception building for the morning. Students then initiated action and ideas on how to manage/conserve water, its implications for not having water. They obviously had access to water in other areas of the school but they had to come up with management plans, posters etc.

__Year One:__ Exploring giving and contributing the local and wider community and what is our responsibility as global citizens. The children were exploring how children live in different countries and were particularly interested in children's lives in Africa. To offer the perspective of how they live each child brought in a bucket and we walked down to the local river (15-20 min walk) where we had to locate water, fill and walk back to school with it. When we arrived they were then offered a spoon full of cold plain rice in a paper towel with no forks or bowls. They children were under the assumption that it would be their food intake for the day. There was clear communication between parents on our purpose and the activities.

__Year 2:__ Exploring the need for aid organisations within society in a How We Organise Ourselves UOI, we put children into groups and led them to believe we were having a small celebration/snack of corn chips. Placing a paper plate in each group, we gave varying amounts of corn chips to each group - ranging from 1 chip to many. This generated much discussion about fairness/equity/world hunger/our role.

__Year 4__: When we introduced a unit on poverty and unequal distribution of wealth we played a game called LIFE AUCTION that demonstrated how not all people receive, or have access to all human needs. It took quite a bit of organising but was well worth the effort.

Multile year levels: Australia War Memorial Boxes Each box contains artefacts that students can handle, as well as photographs, case studies, uniforms, a video, oral histories, teacher’s notes, and more. Memorial boxes can be adapted for use across many areas of study and are accessible to a wide range of students, from lower primary to senior secondary. []

Year 1/2 Unit: Forces help us to create simple machines that we use in our daily lives from How the World Works. The 5 year 1/2 teachers each looked at a specific simple machine and designed a tuning in activity around that machine. The children over the course of a week went to each teacher for the tunng in activity.