Historical Investigation

Secondary 1 Briefing

A way to take on the roles of Historians.

Project based learning.

A movement away from pure test and exam centered learning.

30% of your history grade.

What is the HI

Time management.

Communication skills in your group.

History skills Research Inference Skills Writing Skills

What skills will you need for the HI

The aims of this Historical Investigation (HI) are to:

enhance your understanding of how people in various occupations lived their lives and contributed to Singapore’s progress.

develop an appreciation of how sources can be used to construct history.

develop historical thinking skills through the examination of a range of sources; and

derive conclusions from examining sources.

Aims of the Historical Investigation

HI Reserved in your timetables.

Requirements should be clear.

What’s new in HI?

Consider multiple perspectives (Caring) on how historians construct knowledge of the past.

Students to use authentic historical sources, analyse them(Critical) , form evidence, consolidate and present their findings. (Use varied sources; primary and secondary –including online sources - to derive at a conclusion on how life was different for people of different occupations in Singapore.)

Historical Investigation

If you have CCA training or events in school, you will be able to attend the training from 3:30 pm on Wednesdays.

If you have an external CCA or other competition, you should let your history teacher know if it prevents you from attending HI sessions in classrooms or otherwise.

CCA

Week What you should be working on:

Activities Venue

Week 3 Understand the inquiry question and read up about the different occupations that existed in Singapore before WWII. As a group, decide on the different occupations you would like to work on. Complete group contribution 1

Group contribution 1 (4 marks )

Online/ library/museums/National Archives Classrooms

Week What you should be working on:

Activities Venue

Week 4 Start your search for sources about the occupation you have chosen (research) Look for different types of sources that will help you to understand what life was like for the people of your chosen occupation. (research) Eg: Text sources about coolies, pictures, drawings, oral history documents etc.

Mass Briefing on HI requirements

Auditorium Online/ library/museums/National Archives

Week What you should be working on:

Activities Venue

Week 5 Complete Individual contribution 1

(Work on your investigations with your groups.)

Online/ library/museums/National Archives(Staff meeting)

Week What you should be working on:

Activities Venue

Week 6

11 Feb

Work on individual contribution 2

Visit to the National Museum of Singapore (11 Feb) for group leaders.

Classrooms

National Museum of Singapore

Week What you should be working on:

Activities Venue

Week 7

Complete individual contribution 2

Chinese New Year celebrations

(NIL) Work from home.

Week What you should be working on:

Activities Venue

Week 8 Work on group contribution 2

Work with your groups.

Classrooms

Week What you should be working on:

Activities Venue

Week 9 Complete group contribution 2

Mass briefing on End Product

Auditorium

Week What you should be

working on:

Activities Venue

Week 10 Work on the end product booklet

Sabbatical Week Nil

Week What you should be working on:

Activities Venue

March Holidays

Work on the end product booklet

Work from Home.

Week What you should be working on:

Activities Venue

Term 2Week 1

Work on the end product booklet

Classrooms

Term 2Week 2

Work on the end product booklet Complete booklet

Classrooms

Term 2Week 3

Submissions week

Submissions due

Classrooms

1) Read and understood the inquiry question

2) Read up about the different occupations

3) Completed group contribution 1

4) Completed Individual contribution 1

5) Completed Individual contribution 1

6) Completed group contribution 2

7) Completed end product booklet

8) Checked your referencing format

9) Submitted the following items to your teacher via IVLE: a) Group contribution 1b) Group contribution 2c) Individual contribution 1d) Individual Contribution 2e) Reflection

10 Submitted the booklet to your teacher

So what evidence do you gather

while at the National Museum?

How was life different among the people of different occupations in Singapore before World War II?

Inquiry:

Scenario for the Historical Investigation

Your school is participating in the National Heritage Festival is: ‘Our Immigrants’. The school wants to design and produce a booklet in which you will present your response to the question “How was life different among the people of different occupations in Singapore before World War II?

The booklet will be distributed to all lower secondary schjool students. The aim of producing the booklet is to develop a deeper understanding among the students of the lives of people in various occupations, Each group must choose four out of the seven different occupations listed.

1. Coolies 2. Chettiars 3. Rickshaw pullers 4. Samsui Women 5.Ship builders 6. British government officials

7. Dhobis

Occupations to choose from

Group Member 1:

Coolies

Group Member 2:

Chettiars

Group Member 3:

Samsui Women

Group Member 4:

Shipbuilders

Each group should choose 4 occupations. This means that each member of the group will focus on a different

occupation. For Example.

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