Mixtures and solutions - AT
Prior to the sample task, students investigated different types of mixtures and had been instructed on the scientific terminology used to describe their components. They had been given opportunities to identify solvent and solute in solutions and to use …
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Bouncing balls – AT (Year 8)
Prior to the sample task, students investigated investigated forms of energy and energy transfers and transformations. As part of the unit, students were required to undertake a practical investigation to identify the relationship between drop heights …
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Chemical change – AT
Prior to the sample task, students were introduced to the atomic model and the ways in which this could be used to explain chemical structures and processes. They had investigated a variety of chemical reactions and classified them as endothermic or exothermic, …
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Alltag interview and recount – AT
Students learnt about describing and relating daily routines and activities, and how to write and talk about these using the past tense. They were introduced to the topics using ‘Das Tagesablaufdomino’ game (for everyday routines and related vocabulary). …
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Classification - AT
Students had investigated the role of classification in the biological sciences. After a visit to a local wildlife park, where students observed features and behaviours of Australian animals, they analysed how scientists develop hierarchical classification …
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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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Design project: Pig enclosure - AT
Students completed an analysis of the two pig enclosures (managed environments) at the school where pigs were housed. They used their prior knowledge, internet research and an audit key to assist them in assessing the positives and negatives of each of …
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Research and proposal: Physical activity interventions - AT
As part of a broader unit of work on community-based health and wellbeing interventions, students researched a range of physical activity interventions/initiatives/community events – for example, workplace walking challenges, social media campaigns, targeted …
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Composition: Walking to School - AT
Students sang a known nursery rhyme, Three Blind Mice in unison. They then collaboratively composed a song using the first three notes of Three Blind Mice, experimenting with inverting the melody and adding other notes by step. Students devised their …
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Part time work - AT
The role play took place at the end of a unit on part time work. Students learned vocabulary, expression, grammar and idioms related to the theme of the unit. Students discussed differences in cultural attitudes in Australia and China towards having a …
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Ma vie a tellement changé - AT
Students had studied a unit of work on their personal world which included past and present activities, daily life and childhood memories. They learnt the language to enable them to reflect on past experiences and text structures appropriate to this …
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Writing Task - Être en forme, Chez le médecin - AT
Students had completed a module of work on health and had learnt the vocabulary, grammar, sentence structures and idiomatic language to be able to discuss how to become and remain physically and mentally healthy, including eating and exercise habits, …
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Colour quiz – AT
Students learnt to say and write colours in German and how to pronounce some German sounds. This task consisted of two parts: Part 1: Students were asked to create a ‘Colour Quiz’ for a peer to complete. Students were asked to draw six pictures of …
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Wetter - AT
Students created a German weather phrasebook that included German and English translations, as well as a picture to describe each phrase. They learnt how to use a conjunction to join two short sentences. This was the first task in a unit focusing on how …
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Environmental investigation – AT
Students investigated the impact of human activity on the environment. They listened to a teacher reading of ‘The Lorax’ by Dr Seuss and wrote a letter to the Once-Ler outlining their concerns about his intentions to commence production in their local …
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Animales de Venezuela – AT (Spanish 3-4)
Students learnt about Venezuelan animals and how to describe habitat, characteristics, what they eat and what they can do. Students were familiar with simple sentence constructions using present tense verbs, adjectives, simple conjunctions, plural forms, …
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Thanking people – AT
Students had learnt about formal and informal ways of thanking people, both in spoken and written texts, in the plural, as well as in the polite form. Students discussed various situations for thanking others. This task had two parts: Students were …
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Sentence word order– AT
Over the course of a term, students learnt to construct sentences using correct word order, Hangeul syllables and words. Each week students focused on different letters and practiced writing syllables with the focused letter in them, then expanding by …
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Photo essay: An environmental issue - AT
Students investigated the environment movement from the 1960s to the present. They produced a photo essay to demonstrate how a significant event or campaign contributed to popular awareness of the environment. The photo essay was to contain nine photographic …
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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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