The Arts: Drama - Below satisfactory - Years 5 and 6
These student descriptions are based on two work samples that consist of a student performance and a short student interview of the students reflecting on their performance. An imagined student who might demonstrate below satisfactory in this task is …
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Digital Technologies - Below satisfactory - Years 5 and 6
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can explain the fundamentals of digital system components (hardware, software and networks) and how digital systems are connected to form networks (WS3). The student can explain how digital systems …
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Digital project: Learning tool - BELOW
Students collaboratively designed a learning tool featuring branching and repetition. The learning tool aimed to provide opportunities for players (Year 3 and 4 students) to explore, practise and apply mathematical concepts and skills (multiplication …
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Digital project: Scratch game - BELOW
Students designed a game for a buddy using Scratch visual programming language. They selected a challenge from three options and defined the problem. They designed and implemented the digital solution and recorded their development process.
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Worksheet: Whole numbers - BELOW
Students were introduced to whole numbers using a CS Unplugged video and unplugged group activities. Students completed a worksheet to assess their understanding of binary numbers.
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Presentation: School system - BELOW
Throughout the year, students have been using and considering the purpose of a range of digital system components and how these components can be connected. Students were asked to verbally explain and justify the classroom network.
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Video: Safe procedures - BELOW
Students filmed or photographed activities in which they were selecting technologies and applying safe procedures.
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Cubism: Portraits - BELOW
Students researched and explored synthetic and analytical cubism and the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. They explored the visual conventions of and social and historical influences on cubism through structured inquiry that was prepared for them by their …
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Ensemble: Site specific – BELOW
Students studied choreography using a site specified by their teacher as a stimulus. The unit explored different spaces where dance can occur and provided students with the opportunity to choreograph their own work in a specific space. This was an informal …
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Design project: Gardening tool - BELOW
Students critiqued garden tools, designed for adults, and identified the issues they have with using them. They researched ergonomics and developments by designers of garden tools in shape, size and materials used. Students explained the issues they have …
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Composition: Penguins soundscape - BELOW
Students learning in music builds upon learning from the previous band. Students perform from a musical score that they have graphically notated and composed collaboratively with the ensemble in response to their study of penguins in the local habitat. The …
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Scripted performance: Goldfields - BELOW
Students studied the gold rushes and their impact on Australia and its peoples through an integrated unit that involved History and Drama. In particular, they explored the Victorian goldfields, the miner’s licence and the unrest that led to the Eureka …
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Demonstration and verbal response: Net games - BELOW
Over eight lessons, students were engaged in a net games unit of work. The focus was on manipulating and controlling a ball/object using another piece of equipment. Modified tennis equipment (low/short nets, short-handled rackets), lowered badminton nets …
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Design project: Kitchen garden - BELOW
Students investigated the advantages of planting crops in season, or of adapting the environment to extend the life of plants. They investigated nutrient requirements for plants and optimal growing conditions. Students designed and planned a garden for …
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Written reflection: Team challenges - BELOW
For the first three lessons of the year, students worked in small groups to complete a number of challenges that required teamwork, decision-making, problem-solving, and movement skills to be successful. This series of lessons focused on building social …
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Demonstration: Gymnastics - Years 5 and 6 - BELOW
Students participated in a six-week unit on gymnastics in which they learnt a range of movements and concepts related to space and composition of movement sequences. Students were asked to create a gymnastic sequence using a range of identified floor …
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Written response: Fitness - BELOW
Throughout the term, students participated in a range of physical activities that developed health-related and skill-related fitness components. The teacher led discussion about the difference between health- and skill-related components and after each …
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Design project: Automata - BELOW
Students investigated some of the key mechanical systems that are used and relied on in daily life, such as the muscles that move their own head, unlocking and opening a door, toys that move and mechanisms in the family car. They critiqued these key mechanical …
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Readers theatre: Blueback - BELOW
Students studied the novel Blueback by Tim Winton as part of an integrated unit that included English and playbuilding in Drama. They developed their own character in an imaginary town meeting in Longboat Bay, the novel’s setting. They used these characters …
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Blueback trailer - BELOW
Students studied the novel Blueback by Tim Winton as part of an integrated unit that included English, Drama, Dance and the creation of a film trailer as a Media Arts summative task. They developed and planned their own sequences based on the novel's …
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