Outdoor learning: Ethical Understanding
Outdoor learning can focus on the importance of treating others with integrity, fairness and compassion, and valuing and respecting diversity and equality for all. Students can examine ethical principles and codes of practice appropriate to the natural …
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Reflection on learning French - AT
Students were asked to participate in a discussion with unscripted questions, requiring students to reflect on their experience in learning French.
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Design project: Automata - ABOVE
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, locking and unlocking mechanisms, toys that move and mechanisms in the family car. They critiqued these key …
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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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Digital project: Representation of data - AT
Students created a website using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control visual elements of their web page, and developed an understanding of why data needed to be compressed and separated from presentation. They used Unicode to create a greeting and …
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Reflection on learning Spanish – AT
Students had been learning Spanish for approximately one term. In this task, students were asked to answer a range of questions about learning Spanish. Students were asked to consider cultural and linguistic similarities and differences as well as explain …
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Word knowledge - Understand learning area vocabulary Literacy Word Knowledge Level 2
use mostly familiar vocabulary, with a steady introduction of new vocabulary in learning area contexts
Word knowledge - Understand learning area vocabulary | Level 2 | Learning Continuum | Literacy | General capabilities | F-10 curriculum
Word knowledge - Understand learning area vocabulary Literacy Word Knowledge Level 3
use growing subject-specific vocabulary to read, discuss and write about learning area topics
Word knowledge - Understand learning area vocabulary | Level 3 | Learning Continuum | Literacy | General capabilities | F-10 curriculum
Word knowledge - Understand learning area vocabulary Literacy Word Knowledge Level 4
use vocabulary, including subject-specific vocabulary from a range of learning areas and vocabulary that expresses shades of meaning
Word knowledge - Understand learning area vocabulary | Level 4 | Learning Continuum | Literacy | General capabilities | F-10 curriculum
Design project: Rainbow costumes - AT
Students designed and produced costumes for a performance based on the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. They gathered information on materials, colours, special effects and design features. They generated and evaluated ideas for their costumes. …
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Career education: Career Week, linking learning to real life opportunities
This illustration of practice highlights how Hillman Primary School developed a career education program to assist students to make informed decisions about their study and career options and set goals for the future. Students develop Personal and Social, …
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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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Reflection on learning German – AT
Students had been learning German for approximately one term. In this task, students were asked to answer a range of questions about learning German. Students were asked to consider cultural and linguistic similarities and differences as well as explain their …
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Toys project - AT
As part of their teaching and learning unit on physical sciences, students had investigated different types of forces and simple machines. Students had been explicitly taught how to draw force diagrams and how to scientifically communicate designs that …
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Reflection on learning Korean – AT
In this task, students were asked to answer a range of questions about learning Korean. Students were asked to consider cultural and linguistic similarities and differences as well as explain their own experiences of learning Korean. Students were not …
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Reflection on learning Vietnamese – AT
In this task, students were asked a series of questions relating to their experience of learning Vietnamese. Students were unfamiliar with the questions and responses were spontaneous and unrehearsed.
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Digital project: Website - BELOW
Students collaboratively designed and implemented a website to document the development of a healthy food item developed in Design and Technologies. Students researched and analysed existing websites to determine functional and aesthetic criteria required …
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Digital project: Website - ABOVE
Students collaboratively designed and implemented a website to document the development of a healthy food item developed in Design and Technologies. Students researched and analysed existing websites to determine functional and aesthetic criteria required …
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Obento project and reflection - AT
Over the course of a 4-week unit about portable meals (Obento), etiquette and food culture, students were asked to plan and create their own obento following the criteria and guidelines explored in class and complete a range of tasks at each step. Students …
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Digital project: Website - AT
Students collaboratively designed and implemented a website to document the development of a healthy food item developed in Design and Technologies. They researched and analysed existing websites to determine functional and aesthetic criteria required …
Digital project: Website - AT | Samples | Work samples | Resources