Work Studies - Above satisfactory - Year 9
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can understand the importance of lifelong and self-directed learning (WS1, WS4). The student can investigate the skills or personal qualities associated with a range of occupations (WS1, WS2, WS3, …
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Geography - Above satisfactory - Year 9
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can analyse the interconnections between people and environments. Through an examination of the relationships between biomes and food scarcity (WS1), and trading patterns (WS2), and between human and …
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Civics and Citizenship – Above Satisfactory – Year 9
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can evaluate features of Australia’s political system, and identify and critically analyse the influences on people’s political choices (WS1). The student explains the key principles of Australia’s …
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Economics and Business - Above satisfactory - Year 9
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can explain in detail the role of the Australian economy in allocating and distributing resources, and analyse the interdependence of participants in the global economy (WS3). The student explains …
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Science - Above satisfactory - Year 9
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can explain chemical processes (WS1, WS2) and natural radioactivity (WS3) in terms of atoms and energy transfers and describe examples of important chemical reactions (WS1, WS2, WS4). The student describes …
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History - Above satisfactory - Year 9
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can refer to key events and the actions of individuals and groups to analyse patterns of change and continuity over time (WS1, WS2, WS3, WS4, WS5, WS6, WS7). The student analyses the causes and effects …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Arts: Visual Arts - Above satisfactory - Years 9 and 10
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can evaluate how artists can influence each other across cultures, time and place. The student can analyse the visual conventions and practices that connect cultures and create hybrid artworks and …
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The Arts: Drama - Above satisfactory - Years 9 and 10
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can analyse a script to gain a good understanding of its style and requirements in terms of the elements of production and can develop a design concept that symbolically represents a directorial interpretation. The …
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The Arts: Media Arts - Above satisfactory - Years 9 and 10
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can manipulate technical and symbolic elements with precision to promote a product and communicate a social issue in an advertisement to meet an assessment brief (WS1). The student can analyse a film …
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The Arts: Music - Above satisfactory - Years 9 and 10
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can identify and analyse the elements of music used in their interpretation and arrangement of an Irish folk song for a specific performance situation. The student performs music demonstrating the …
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The Arts: Dance - Above satisfactory - Years 9 and 10
This portfolio of work shows that the student can choreograph using elements of dance and choreographic devices to communicate their intent and explore stylistic features in detail. The student performs choreography demonstrating technical and expressive …
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Design and Technologies - Above satisfactory - Years 9 and 10
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can explain how people working in design and technologies occupations consider factors that impact on design decisions and the technologies used to produce products (WS4), services and environments …
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Health and Physical Education - Above satisfactory - Years 9 and 10
This portfolio of student work shows that the student synthesises detailed research and information from credible sources to analyse effectiveness of public health campaigns. They propose comprehensive community responses to the issue of sun safety and …
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