Government & Defence - ARMY OFFICER
Create
your own obstacle course
Tactical
Operations
War
Debate
Create
your own obstacle course
Primary
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
1. To give you some ideas, look at the following photo of a real military obstacle course and some ideas from other courses:
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2. As a class, reach consensus about the type and number of obstacles you want in your obstacle race. Use boxes, nets, cones and other objects to provide obstacles for students to jump, crawl, run through and climb over.
3. Construct a simple obstacle course in your school yard that only your class has access to. All students have at least three goes and the teacher is to time each student. Have one student record the PBs.
4. It would be an idea to film the event to be shown later to the whole class.
Teacher
Check with your teacher to make sure that your obstacle course is safe for use.
Time each run of the course and provide a prize for the winner.
See if students can improve on their PBs (Personal Best).
Primary
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. Divide into teams.
2. Fill 12 balloons with water and scatter across the allocated area to act as mines.
3. Blindfold one soldier from each team at a time and have him/her try to cross the makeshift minefield without standing on a mine.
As the Army Officer, you are to direct the other players to give their teammates directions to help them across. The team to get the most players across safely wins.
Primary
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Intercultural Understanding
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding
1. Read the following article:
Why Wars Happen
There have been nine wars
and almost 130 violent conflicts across the world this year [2008],
according to an annual report released on Monday December 15th by the
Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research, a think-tank. The
study classifies conflict broadly to include peaceful disputes over politics
or borders (low intensity), as well as those involving sporadic or constant
violence (medium or high intensity). In 2008 previously non-violent
conflicts escalated into violence in countries such as Kenya and Yemen.
Ideological change is both the most common cause of conflict and the root of
most wars, but there is rarely only one cause of dispute. Congo's ongoing
conflict encompasses a battle for its mineral resources and, according to
some, an invasion by another state, Rwanda.
(Source:
The Economist)
2. Evaluate: What do you think the cause of war is?
3. Survey the class. What was the response most common to the class? Survey
neighbouring classes. Were their responses similar?
4. Individually, create an argumentative speech, highlighting why yours is
the most correct answer. You may wish to choose one you do not agree with
and argue for it to show why it is not a valid answer.
5. Was there one common argument? Why do you think this is? How did you
reach consensus?
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