Subject: Social Studies Lesson Duration: 30min.

General Aim: Development of skill Grade Level: 5 Primary

Specific Aims: To test in general detail a number of geographic and historical topics presented during the last month. To assess students' understanding, to detect topics requiring remedial attention and to provide experience in answering a variety of written and visual questions.

Basic Method: Testing

Preparation: Teacher has prepared board questions and has in readiness pictures, slides in a 35mm projector, map outlines etc. Children have recently returned from an excursion to the Hunter Valley.

CONTENT	PROCEDURE
Step 1: Test of recent topics to locate areas of misunderstanding, for correction.Questions of different types, answers to be written.	Explanation of Requirements The aims of the test and basic requirements are explained by the teacher.
Step 2: a. Direct questioning e.g. Along which highway would I expect to see orange trees, Jacarandas and bananas? b. Naming of towns and rivers indicated on an outline map. c. Identifying places and events from slides and illustrations e.g. an open cut coal mine at Muswellbrook, Glenbawn Dam, Butter factory etc. d. True or False e.g. Australia Day is celebrated 26th January T/F. 1788 was in the 17th century T/F. e.Match names with events e.g. David, Plimsoll, Shaftesbury Helped safety for seamen Stopped child labour in mines Discovered major NSW coal deposits f.Give picture a title e.g. Marco Polo sees the Great Wall g. Order events on time line: First Settlement (Sydney), Henry the Navigator, Shaftesbury, Marco Polo h. Given a name, write the facts e.g. Nelson Mandela, Kinsford Smith, etc.	Testing Using board and aids teacher presents questions orally. Children write answers numbering each one.
Step 3:	Correction Changing books, children correct answers given by teacher. Where possible, children aid in correction, labelling, explaining, refining possible answers.
Step 4: Errors noted.       Library research, Internet searches, quiz between partners.	Assessment Errors in items, children with poor scores are noted for follow up. Neat and correct work is commended. If time permits, class misunderstandings are corrected by brief revision. Major errors will be retaught in later lessons. Children singly and in pairs follow up individual errors.