history is fun

Singapore: From settlement to city-state

• Throughline: How did Singapore develop into what it is today?

• Generative Topic: The Nation Building Years, 1965-1971
• Nation-building efforts in independent Singapore
• housing,
  
• education,
  
• employment,
  
• industrialization and
  
• defence

• Understanding Goals:
• Term 4 Week 1
  
• What were the constraints and vulnerabilities faced by Singapore after separation?
• What were the strategies used to overcome them?
• Term 4 Week 2
• Why did Singapore’s need to establish ties with other countries?
• Term 4 Week 3
• What are the key values, attitudes and skills Singaporeans need in order to ensure the survival and success of the nation?

• Performances
• Approach:
• Thinking Skills: Constructing explanations & making judgment skills
• NE: We have confidence in our future
  
• Activities:
• Enrichment: Fieldtrip (week 9)
  
• IT: Singapore: A multi-media Journey (CDROM); Building a Nation (CDROM)
• Print: Portraits of Places, History, Community and Identity in Singapore; Past Times: A Social History of Singapore; Fun Singapore; Shaping Singapore: A Pictorial Journey
• Assignments
• Workbook, pp. 74-75.
  
• Work book pp. 76 and 79.
• Workbook pp. 84-86.
  
• Teacher's Resource pp. 8-10