Writing task - AT
Students were asked to write a semi-formal email to a friend using Chinese characters, on how they felt about not having a smart phone, why they feel they should have one and how they would use it.
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Australian businesses - AT
Students researched the different types and structures of businesses. The teacher, in association with the teacher-librarian, scaffolded the research and guided the selection of source material. Students chose one type of business and generated their …
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Quanti animali - AT
Students had completed a unit of work on animals learning the vocabulary to name them and adjectives to describe their characteristics. Students had learned that many animals in Italian have similar names in English and discussed how cognates can help …
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Chouette, c’est la rentrée - AT
Students had learnt about the cultural concept of la rentrée and discussed key language and grammatical structures. In this task, students were given a poem as a written stimulus text and were asked to answer questions in English about the content and …
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La journée à la maison et à l’école - AT
Students had completed a unit of work on daily life and routine. Students had learnt about a typical day in the life of a French student and learnt relevant vocabulary, expressions and grammar to be able to discuss and describe their own daily routine …
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Community walk map – AT
Students undertook a supervised walk around the local community and recorded the journey on a template map containing key marker points. The teacher then interviewed the student, posing questions about the journey. A transcript of the interview is included …
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My connections – AT
Students discussed their personal connections to places in the world beyond Australia, particularly the Asia-Pacific region. Students then labelled and annotated a teacher-provided map of the region to indicate and explain these connections. The task …
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Mein Haustier – AT
Students learnt about a variety terms for, and features of, house pets and had practiced reading and writing names and using descriptive language for these. In this task students were asked to create a plasticine model of a chosen pet and complete …
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Travel itinerary – AT
Students were asked to produce a map depicting the position, distance and direction of places in the northern hemisphere relative to a location in eastern Australia. The map was to be presented as an itinerary for a potential round-the-world journey by …
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Mi Monstruo – AT
Students learnt parts of the body through songs, action play and reading and acting out a story about monsters. The tasks and descriptions were modelled for students before the task below. In this task, students were asked to complete a variety of …
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Research report: Qin Shi Huangdi – AT (History)
Students investigated the life, achievements and influence of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi as part of their study of life in ancient China. Supported by the class teacher and the teacher-librarian, students identified and located sources of historical information, created …
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Γεια σας! – AT
Students worked with a partner or in threes to script a conversation between young people who meet and exchange information about themselves. The conversation was based on a scaffold, but students had to adapt and modify the text to include a range of …
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Listening comprehension – AT (3-4 Korean)
Students learnt about sharing personal information about themselves and others, including hobbies and interests. They learnt the skills of listening to texts for the general sense of a text then the detail. In this task, students listened to a text several …
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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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Body systems – AT
In a teaching and learning unit on biological sciences, students studied human anatomy with a particular focus on the respiratory, circulatory, nervous and digestive systems. They investigated cells, tissues and organs in each system. Students were given …
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How an idea changes – AT
This task was designed to address the aspects of the Year 8 achievement standards that relate to science as human endeavour. Students were asked to research a ‘big idea’ in science and create a presentation in which they explain how that idea has developed …
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Food and nutrition – AT
In a cross-curricula health-Arabic language unit, students learnt about the importance of food (nutrition) and water and their health benefits. Students learnt about translating words and expressions with access to dictionaries, word lists and online …
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Periodic table pamphlet – AT
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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Australia and the global economy - AT
This task had multiple parts. Firstly, students were required to photograph a representative selection of products found in their family kitchen, identify the country of origin of each product and create a pie chart to indicate the percentage of imported …
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Der Stadtrundgang – AT
Students learnt vocabulary for describing tourist attractions and activities for German-speaking tourists to see and do in a city. In this context they learnt the impersonal phrase es gibt and revised nominative/accusative case endings. They were also …
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