Animales de Venezuela – AT (Spanish 3-4)
Students learnt about Venezuelan animals and how to describe habitat, characteristics, what they eat and what they can do. Students were familiar with simple sentence constructions using present tense verbs, adjectives, simple conjunctions, plural forms, …
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Research task - ABOVE
During a teaching and learning unit on chemical sciences, students learnt about pure substances and mixtures and investigated a variety of separation techniques for soluble and insoluble substances. During a unit on Earth and space sciences, students …
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Researching a scientist - ABOVE
In previous teaching and learning units, students practiced researching scientific topics online and they were taught how to judge the quality of the information they found. Students were given opportunities to write research reports that included bibliographies. In …
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Research task - AT
During a teaching and learning unit on chemical sciences, students learnt about pure substances and mixtures and investigated a variety of separation techniques for soluble and insoluble substances. During a unit on Earth and space sciences, students …
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Water treatment - AT
Students had investigated the ways in which the Australian Government treats our wastewater, and ways in which we can preserve and protect water resources in Australia. Students had learnt a variety of separation techniques and had researched different …
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Earth Science Task – ABOVE
Over a period of eight weeks, students engaged in an integrated STEAM project designed to offer students insights into real-world industry applications and work experiences. Students were organised into ‘business units’ of a fictitious mining corporation …
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Earth Science Task – AT
Over a period of eight weeks, students engaged in an integrated STEAM project designed to offer students insights into real-world industry applications and work experiences. Students were organised into ‘business units’ of a fictitious mining corporation …
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Food and nutrition – AT
In a cross-curricula health-Arabic language unit, students learnt about the importance of food (nutrition) and water and their health benefits. Students learnt about translating words and expressions with access to dictionaries, word lists and online …
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Holiday conversation – AT
In a unit on holiday plans, students researched sites to see and activities to do in Arabic-speaking countries, learnt the language for making reservations at a hotel and purchasing tickets for travelling. They learnt about formal language use required …
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Investigation report: Comparing local habitats
Students were investigating local habitats. They were read a number of texts such as Green Air by Jill Morris, Hairy Nose, Itchy Butt by Elizabeth Frankel and Garry Duncan, and Leaf Litter by Rachel Tonkin. Pair and class discussions were held during …
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Observation: What are the features of the local park?
After talking about natural, managed and constructed features of places, students visited a park in the local area to observe and take photos of its features in response to the question: what are the features of the local park? The students were then …
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Report: Elizabeth Farm House
Students attended Elizabeth Farm, a historical estate in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney, to investigate what life was like in the 1800s. The students explored the family home of wool pioneer John Macarthur and his wife Elizabeth, including the bedrooms …
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Investigation: Local birds
By the end of Year 3, students use their understanding of the movement of Earth, materials and the behaviour of heat to suggest explanations for everyday observations They describe features common to living things. They describe how they can use science …
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Written reflection: Team challenges
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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Written response: Bushwalking
As part of a unit of work about healthy eating and the outdoors, students learnt about the natural environment and participated in a bushwalk in their local community. Students explored strategies to promote minimal impact on the environment. Students …
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Interconnections: Magnetic Island
Over a two-week period, students completed a staged investigative inquiry into how people connect with Magnetic Island and the impacts of these interconnections. The scaffolded stages of the inquiry were: Identify and list the main questions that …
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Demonstration and written reflection: Indoor climbing
Students were provided with opportunities to develop their skills and knowledge of climbing and belaying at the local indoor climbing facility. Students were asked to demonstrate their climbing and belaying skills. Following practical and belaying sessions, …
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Number and algebra: Who are we? - WS1
The learning intention of the task was to identify given numbers which occur before and after a given number on a hundreds number chart.
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Number and algebra: My thinkboard - WS2
The students were presented with a basket containing five skipping ropes. They were told that previously there was a basket full of skipping ropes and were asked to list three different solutions to how many skipping ropes had gone missing. Students gave …
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Measurement and geometry: The combined area of spaces - WS3
Students were asked to solve the following problem: ‘The school has been donated 36 square metres of artificial grass that need to be laid in the upper playground to create two quiet areas. Draw at least two possible solutions on grid paper displaying …
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