School Projects: An Overview
School projects fell into one of two categories: pre-existing, well-tried projects with a defined outcome original projects, designed to appeal to the interests of students or to respond to a particular school or local context. Pre-existing projects …
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References & Appendices
Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority (ACARA) F–10 Curriculum. www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/mathematics/curriculum/f-10 (viewed November 2014) www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/science/curriculum/f-10 (viewed November 2014)www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/design-and-technologies/curriculum/f-10 (viewed …
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St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
The Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre The Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring (MDWg) Language and Culture Centre Kununurra is situated 3,214 km from Perth in far northern Western Australia, at the eastern extremity of the Kimberley. …
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Peg's Creek Primary School
Peg's Creek Primary School is an independent public school, centrally located in the City of Karratha, 1600 km north-west of Perth. The school is a part of the Pilbara Education District and is one of five public primary schools and one Catholic primary …
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Yokine Primary School
Yokine Independent Public Primary School is situated ten kilometres from Perth CBD. The school profile has changed significantly over the last seven years with an increased enrolment of students for whom English is an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D).The …
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Baynton West Primary School
Baynton West Primary School is an independent public school in Karratha, Western Australia. At the time of filming the school had close to 600 students in Foundation – Year 7, and 50 staff members. The school strives to provide a rigorous education for …
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St Stephen's School, Duncraig
St Stephen’s School, Duncraig, is situated 15 kilometres north of Perth. At the time of filming, St Stephen’s Duncraig had 548 students, with the Early Years Learning Framework integrated into the pedagogy of the primary school. The general capabilities …
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St Stephen's School, Carramar
At the time of filming St Stephen’s Carramar had 490 students F–6. The school’s emphasis is on developing students, with the curriculum as the platform and context. Both teachers and students are encouraged to take risks in the learning process. Integration …
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The Pilbara Education Region
The Pilbara Education Region is one of eight regions in the Western Australian Department of Education. The headquarters of this education region, the Pilbara Education Regional Office (PERO), is located in Karratha. The PERO staff are committed to the …
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Landsdale Primary School
Lansdale Primary School is situated in the north-eastern suburbs of Perth and at the time of filming had 942 K–7 students. The students come from various cultural backgrounds with 38 per cent having English as an additional language or dialect. Lansdale …
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Hale School
The Hale School took an initiative to assist students to develop strategies to ingrain ways of thinking mathematically into their learning. They took on a focus of problem-based learning and realised, with the implementation of the Australian Curriculum: …
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Outdoor learning
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QuN7
Producing number names to at least 120* counts forwards and backwards to and from 120 and beyond continues counting from any number up to 120 and beyond counts forwards and backwards by fives Grouping and counting items by tens counts items …
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OwP2
Find percentage as a part of a whole uses fraction benchmarks to find percentages of quantities (to find 75% of 160, I know that 50% (half) of 160 is 80, and 25% (quarter) is 40 so 75% is 120) finds a percentage of a quantity (10%, 20%, 25%, 50%, …
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Someone special to me – AT (5-6)
Students were asked to choose a person or character to write about. This person/character had to be someone special to them. They had to write a bilingual text in both Greek and English about the person/character, using a mode of their choice such as …
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Investigation: Local birds
By the end of Year 3, students use their understanding of the movement of Earth, materials and the behaviour of heat to suggest explanations for everyday observations They describe features common to living things. They describe how they can use science …
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Interconnections: Magnetic Island
Over a two-week period, students completed a staged investigative inquiry into how people connect with Magnetic Island and the impacts of these interconnections. The scaffolded stages of the inquiry were: Identify and list the main questions that …
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Investigation: Secure networks - BELOW
Students created and presented a presentation to educate and inform users about data, network communication and security. They identified and described the purpose and components of two different networks, then selected one and created a network topology …
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Design project: All systems go - BELOW
Students investigated two closed force systems (pneumatics and hydraulics) to understand that the technology of pneumatics relates to air pressure and the technology of hydraulics relates to water pressure. They were given a design brief to design a machine …
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Presentation: Working safely - AT
Students have collected evidence of safe and skilful use of technologies in a range of design tasks and recorded this in a presentation template provided by the teacher.
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