Design project: Push pull toy - BELOW
Students explored forces of push and pull on the ground, in the air and in the water. They focused on the toys that they use but also learned about toys from other cultures. Students designed their own toys, and safely produced a toy using materials, …
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Worksheet: Digital systems - BELOW
Students have been collaborating, creating and communicating ideas, information and solutions face-to-face and online via a class wiki. They were asked to identify hardware and software used throughout the year and describe other purposes for which they …
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Written response: Personal fitness - ABOVE
Students participated in a range of activities that developed health-related and skill-related fitness components. Students were asked to design a personal training workout and then performed the workout while wearing a heart rate monitor. Students were …
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Written response: Personal fitness - AT
Students participated in a range of activities that developed health-related and skill-related fitness components. Students were asked to design a personal training workout and then performed the workout while wearing a heart rate monitor. Students were …
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Demonstration and written reflection: Indoor climbing - ABOVE
Students were provided with opportunities to develop their skills and knowledge of climbing and belaying at the local indoor climbing facility. Students were asked to demonstrate their climbing and belaying skills. Following practical and belaying sessions, …
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Response to stimulus: Emotional responses - AT
As part of a unit of work about respectful relationships, students explored how emotional responses can impact on how people interact with each other and the decisions and behaviours they make in a range of situations. Students were asked to write two …
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Data analysis: Food scarcity - AT
Over a period of six weeks, students examined the biomes of the world, how humans have altered environments for food production, and the main challenges of providing food security. Various case studies were used from Australia and other parts of the world …
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Community walk map – ABOVE
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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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 special place – ABOVE
Students produced a drawing of an important place in their lives. The teacher then interviewed the students regarding the reasons why the places depicted were important. The explanations were transcribed by the teacher. The drawings and explanations formed …
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My connections – ABOVE
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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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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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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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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Propaganda poster: The Boxer Rebellion - Above
Students investigated the origin and purpose of the Boxer Rebellion in China at the end of the 19th century. They were asked to design a propaganda poster encouraging people to join with and support the Boxers against the western powers. Students were …
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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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Rock formation – AT
In a teaching and learning unit on the rock cycle, students engaged in several activities relating to the formation of sedimentary rocks, focusing on the processes of chemical and physical weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation and fossil …
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Research assignment: Wellbeing indicators - ABOVE
Over a period of four weeks, students examined the concept of human wellbeing and factors affecting human wellbeing. Students discussed how effective quantitative and qualitative indicators are at assessing levels of wellbeing. They were then introduced …
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