Travel itinerary – ABOVE
Students were asked to produce a map depicting the position, distance and direction of places in the northern hemisphere relative to a location in eastern Australia. The map was to be presented as an itinerary for a potential round-the-world journey by …
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Analysis: Food and nutrition - BELOW
Students learnt about the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating and its categories. They discussed influences on the food and drink people consume and what food is needed to stay healthy. Students were asked to record what they had eaten in the previous …
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Comparison: Knight versus samurai - AT
Students compared the life and roles of European knights and Japanese samurai in medieval times. They examined a selection of primary and secondary sources provided by the class teacher and teacher-librarian and summarised their findings on a Venn diagram. …
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Body systems – AT
In a teaching and learning unit on biological sciences, students studied human anatomy with a particular focus on the respiratory, circulatory, nervous and digestive systems. They investigated cells, tissues and organs in each system. Students were given …
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Travel advice - above
As part of their teaching and learning unit on biological sciences, students investigated how living organisms maintain the requirements for life through the coordinated function of body systems, such as the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, nervous …
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Travel advice - AT
As part of their teaching and learning unit on biological sciences, students investigated how living organisms maintain the requirements for life through the coordinated function of body systems, such as the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, nervous …
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Bouncing balls – ABOVE
Students were asked to design an investigation that determines the relationship between the drop height of a ball and its bounce back height. This task was part of a teaching and learning unit on transformation of energy where students explored how energy …
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Bouncing balls – AT
Students were asked to design an investigation that determines the relationship between the drop height of a ball and its bounce back height. This task was part of a teaching and learning unit on transformation of energy where students explored how energy …
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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 reflection: Team challenges - ABOVE
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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Wetter - AT
Students created a German weather phrasebook that included German and English translations, as well as a picture to describe each phrase. They learnt how to use a conjunction to join two short sentences. This was the first task in a unit focusing on how …
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Analysis: Food and nutrition - AT
Students learnt about the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating and its categories. They discussed influences on the food and drink people consume and what food is needed to stay healthy. Students were asked to record what they had eaten in the previous …
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My crazy animal - AT
Students had learnt French colours and animals and basic descriptive language and grammar to form simple descriptive sentences. In this task, students were read the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Ours brun, Dis-moi French edition) by …
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Source analysis: Ötzi, the iceman – Above
Students were presented with a selection of unseen primary and secondary sources associated with the discovery of the body of Ötzi, the iceman, in 1991. They were asked to answer a series of questions about each of these sources and then propose an explanation …
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Source analysis: Ötzi, the iceman – AT
Students were presented with a selection of unseen primary and secondary sources associated with the discovery of the body of Ötzi, the iceman, in 1991. They were asked to answer a series of questions about each of these sources and then propose an explanation …
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A soldier’s story - Above
Students researched the experiences of an Australian soldier in World War I using the digitised material held by the National Archives of Australia, the Australian War Memorial and associated sources. They presented their findings as a written account …
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My week – AT
Students learnt vocabulary and phrases related to daily routines and leisure activities. Students revised how to tell the time and days of the week. Using scaffolded examples, students created their own sentences to provide specific details about their …
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The local lagoon – ABOVE
Students undertook a guided excursion to a freshwater wetland in a local national park. After the excursion students completed a structured worksheet in class.
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Analysis: Food and nutrition - ABOVE
Students learnt about the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating and its categories. They discussed influences on the food and drink people consume and what food is needed to stay healthy. Students were asked to record what they had eaten in the previous …
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'Stolen' – ABOVE
Students were engaged in a series of activities associated with the theme of reconciliation. Students listened to a teacher-reading of ‘The Shack that Dad Built’ by Elaine Russell and completed a tabular comparison of lives and experiences. Students listened …
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