Design project: Budget pants - ABOVE
Students designed and produced pants or shorts for a specified budget. They documented their work including a deconstructed design brief; mood board collage; design ideas rendered and annotated; a fashion illustration (3D sketch); storyboard; materials …
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Demonstration and verbal response: Net games – ABOVE
Over eight lessons, students were engaged in a net games unit of work. The focus was on manipulating and controlling a ball/object using another piece of equipment. Modified tennis equipment (low/short nets, short-handled rackets), lowered badminton nets …
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Spending and saving – ABOVE
This task was part of a unit of work exploring how to make informed choices as a consumer. Students were presented with a scenario in which they were given a gift of $3000. They were required to save half of the money while being free to spend the other …
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Production elements - ABOVE
Students studied the elements of production in a 10-week unit based on the musical Blood Brothers (1983) by Willy Russell. Students explored the script with group workshops, moved readings and short performances for the class. Assessment during the unit …
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Analysis essay - ABOVE
Students studied the use of film techniques and conventions to communicate meaning in a film genre. They watched and analysed Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) through student-led small group class discussion and analysis tasks based on production elements, …
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Periodic table pamphlet – ABOVE
Students were asked to create a 'How to use the Periodic Table' guide which details the trends of the Periodic Table including the chemical background of one particular Group or Period. Students were asked to consider types of elements, ions and the electronic …
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Design project: Mini torch - ABOVE
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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