Digital project: Game on - AT
Students collaboratively designed and implemented a computer game for a primary school audience using open source visual programming. They used an agile approach to develop a game featuring a welcome screen, a designed background, characters or objects …
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Digital project: Game on - BELOW
Students collaboratively designed and implemented a computer game for a primary school audience using open source visual programming. They used an agile approach to develop a game featuring a welcome screen, a designed background, characters or objects …
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Digital project: Python game - AT
Students were provided with a game that had been developed by previous students at the school using Python. They were required to correct any errors and to modify the game by creating additional features and functionality, for example new character races, …
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Design project: Muffins - AT
Students researched, investigated, designed, produced and evaluated a healthy muffin suitable to be sold in a local café catering to adolescents. They explored the properties of ingredients to design a product that was healthy. They considered packaging …
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Design project: Mini torch - AT
Students designed and produced a working prototype of a mini torch case using CAD-CAM and a control system. They investigated CAD-CAM technologies and rapid prototyping systems. Students investigated the characteristics and properties of electronics and …
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Career education: linking learning for students with disability to workplace experiences
This illustration of practice describes how a career education program provides authentic learning experiences in a workplace environment within a high school. Black Mountain School differentiates the curriculum to cater for a range of learners while …
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Outdoor learning: Critical and Creative Thinking
Outdoor learning can develop students’ ability to think logically, critically and creatively in response to a range of issues, ideas and challenges in relation to nature. Students can learn how to critically evaluate evidence related to the outdoors and …
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Outdoor learning: Personal and Social Capability
Outdoor learning is a key contributor to the development of personal and social capability for all students. Working collaboratively with others in outdoor learning activities develops students' personal and social skills as well as an appreciation of …
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Comprehending texts - listen and respond to learning area texts Literacy Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing Level 4
listen to detailed spoken instructions for undertaking learning tasks, listen to spoken and audio texts, including audio-visual texts, and respond to and interpret information and opinions presented
Comprehending texts - listen and respond to learning area texts | Level 4 | Learning Continuum | Literacy | General capabilities | F-10 curriculum
Reflections on learning German – AT
Students explored language and identity as concepts, including looking at similarities and differences between the German and English alphabets, spelling, pronunciation, greetings and interactions. Students engaged in tasks to identify where German is …
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My Spanish learning journey – AT
Students participated in whole-class and peer discussions about their Spanish learning journey. Concepts such as identity, intercultural awareness, metalanguage, values, global citizenship and culture were unpacked and discussed, with students recording …
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Toys project - ABOVE
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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Composing texts - compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts Literacy Composing texts through speaking, writing and creating Level 1e
compose short learning area texts, with support, to record and report ideas and events
Composing texts - compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts | Level 1e | Learning Continuum | Literacy | General capabilities | F-10 curriculum
Composing texts - compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts Literacy Composing texts through speaking, writing and creating Level 6
compose and edit longer and more complex learning area texts
Composing texts - compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts | Level 6 | Learning Continuum | Literacy | General capabilities | F-10 curriculum
Outdoor learning: Foundation Year
Students at this stage Typically, students in Foundation Year are curious about nature. They often notice things outdoors that adults miss. There is an opportunity to encourage this curiosity and develop skills and knowledge to safely enjoy the outdoors. …
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Comprehending texts - listen and respond to learning area texts Literacy Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing Level 2
listen to two or more step instructions for undertaking learning tasks, listen for information about topics being learned in spoken and audio texts, including audio-visual texts, and respond to texts read aloud
Comprehending texts - listen and respond to learning area texts | Level 2 | Learning Continuum | Literacy | General capabilities | F-10 curriculum
Comprehending texts - listen and respond to learning area texts Literacy Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing Level 3
listen to spoken instructions with some detail for undertaking learning area tasks, listen to identify key information in spoken and audio texts, including audio-visual texts, and respond to texts read aloud
Comprehending texts - listen and respond to learning area texts | Level 3 | Learning Continuum | Literacy | General capabilities | F-10 curriculum
Outdoor learning: Health and Physical Education
Outdoor learning provides opportunities to learn about interacting with others, connecting to the environment, teamwork and leadership. The outdoors provides a valid and important environment for developing movement competence, promoting a sense of wellbeing, …
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Digital project: Representation of data - ABOVE
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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Design project: Rainbow costumes - ABOVE
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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