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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Reflections on a shadow day - ABOVE
Students were part of a mixed-ability, multi-aged class of combined Year 9 and Year 10 students. In cooperation with the teacher, students negotiated a day to shadow a person working in an occupation of interest. Prior to the experience, students prepared …
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Worksheet: Ecosystems
Students had completed a unit on ecosystems, including conducting field work in their local heathland and completing a case study on the Biosphere 2 experiment. They had investigated how matter and energy move through an ecosystem, and the different ways …
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Design project: the top playground – Cherrybrook
This task is the culmination of an extended unit of work that aimed to make connections for students between STEM disciplines in a project that targeted an identified need in the school. Students collaborated in small groups to investigate the effect …
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App design – St Michael’s
This task was part of a unit of work that involved the design of an app for new students to the school. Students were asked to use their knowledge of coordinate geometry and the Cartesian plane to help solve a programming problem associated with development …
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Enterprise project - Year 9 - ABOVE
This group of students was drawn from a class of mixed-ability students learning through STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) enterprise project work. Students were asked to complete an action project which demonstrates entrepreneurial …
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Enterprise project - Year 9 - AT
This group of students was drawn from a class of mixed-ability students learning through STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) enterprise project work. Students were asked to complete an action project which demonstrates entrepreneurial …
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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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Reflections on a shadow day - AT
Students were part of a mixed-ability, multi-aged class of combined Year 9 and Year 10 students. In cooperation with the teacher, students negotiated a day to shadow a person working in an occupation of interest. Prior to the experience, students prepared …
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Solar cells - Above
This task was the final assessment task of a five-week teaching and learning unit on solar energy. During the unit, students learnt about scientific concepts related to atomic structure and electricity that allowed them to understand how a solar panel …
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Solar cells - AT
This task was the final assessment task of a five-week teaching and learning unit on solar energy. During the unit, students learnt about scientific concepts related to atomic structure and electricity that allowed them to understand how a solar panel …
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Law of conservation of mass – ABOVE
Prior to the sample task, students learnt the basic concepts and history of atomic theory, the difference between elements and compounds, the law of conservation of mass, and different types of chemical reactions. In this task, students were asked to …
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Law of conservation of mass – AT
Prior to the sample task, students learnt the basic concepts and history of atomic theory, the difference between elements and compounds, the law of conservation of mass, and different types of chemical reactions. In this task, students were asked to …
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Personal and Social Capability - Level 6 (Years 9 and 10)
Typically, by the end of Year 10, students: Develop self-discipline and set goals critically analyse self- discipline strategies and personal goals and consider their application in social and work-related contexts Communicate effectively formulate plans …
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Digital Technologies - Above satisfactory - Years 9 and 10
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can explain the control and management of networked digital systems and the security implications of the interaction between hardware, software and users (WS5). The student explains simple data compression, …
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Personal and Social Capability - Level 6 (Years 9 and 10)
Typically, by the end of Year 10, students: Recognise emotions reflect critically on their emotional responses to challenging situations in a wide range of learning, social and work-related contexts Recognise personal-qualities-and-achievements assess …
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Personal and Social Capability - Level 6 (Years 9 and 10)
Typically by the end of Year 10, students: Recognise emotions reflect critically on their emotional responses to challenging situations in a wide range of learning, social and work-related contexts Express emotions appropriately consider control and justify …
Personal and Social Capability - Level 6 (Years 9 and 10) | Respectful relationships | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Dance - Years 9 and 10
Analysing and reflecting upon intentions Evaluate their own choreography and performance, and that of others to inform and refine future work (ACADAM025) Analyse a range of dance from contemporary and past times to explore differing viewpoints and enrich …
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