HUMANITIES - Mooroolbark College

Welcome back to all Humanities students! It’s been great seeing our classes engaged in so many collaborative activities in the early weeks of Term 1.

Our new Year 9 subject “Be Your Own Boss” is a focus for fun, relevant and business-related activities. Recently students worked in groups on prioritising customer needs ahead of creating social enterprises.

In other Humanities classes, students have completed many engaging and action-oriented activities, frequently in the new Discovery Centre. Highlights so far include:

Year 7 History students role-played life as gladiators in Ancient Rome. They have also begun an Ancient Australia project in which they are designing a museum exhibit showing the interaction of Ancient Australians and extinct megafauna.
Year 7 Geography students collaborated in an activity in which they identified and ranked their Top 5 World Tourist Destinations. In future lessons they will create posters with the annotated spatial characteristics of each location.
Our Year 7 and 8 History and Geography classes have used Education Perfect exercises (for the first time ever in Humanities subjects). It’s been an exciting resource for teachers and has added an extra dimension to our junior classes.
Year 7 and 8 Geography students have completed exercises outside the classroom, in which they observed human and natural features.
Year 9 Making the Modern World students began examining key aspects of the Industrial Revolution.
Year 10 Small Business Accounting students created posters in which they taught groups (such as business owners and students) about the nature of accounting and what an accounting career involves.
Year 11 Legal Studies students had great fun with a “Guess My Rules” game.
Year 12 Accounting students completed an intriguing quiz on the topics of “Accounting Assumptions” and “Qualitative Characteristics”.

Year 7C Geography students collaborating on countries of world and their spatial: