My house – AT
Students learnt about housing in some Arabic-speaking countries and compared these with their own homes. They learnt vocabulary and structures to support descriptions and comparisons. In this task students answered questions of comprehension on a text …
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House of my dreams – AT
Students learnt the names of the rooms of the house and participated in various activities such as songs, videos, reading books and examining features of houses. Students used scaffolded examples to draw the house of their dreams, including rooms and …
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My house, my home – AT
As part of a unit ‘my house, my home,’ students learned how to describe housing features using a range of nouns, adjectives and grammatical structures. Students discussed what makes a house a home and compared living arrangements and conditions in Australia …
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My house and community - AT
Students were asked to prepare an oral presentation about their house and community. This task was a summative task at the end of a unit on describing the inside and outside of their home and surroundings.
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Report: Elizabeth Farm House
Students attended Elizabeth Farm, a historical estate in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney, to investigate what life was like in the 1800s. The students explored the family home of wool pioneer John Macarthur and his wife Elizabeth, including the bedrooms …
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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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Number patterns and algebraic thinking description
Figuring out how a pattern works brings predictability and allows the making of generalisations. This sub-element describes how a student becomes increasingly able to identify a pattern as something that is a discernible regularity in a group of numbers …
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Consumer and financial literacy: 7-10 Geography
The Australian Curriculum: Geography has an important role in supporting young people to become responsible and informed consumers. Geography supports the development of the following dimensions of consumer and financial literacy. Approximate proportion …
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Consumer and financial literacy: Year 10
Young people grow up in diverse circumstances. At age 15 to 16, there is a divergence in young people’s sophistication in relation to financial management attitudes. Unique family circumstances strongly influence young people’s notions of their future …
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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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Consumer and financial literacy: English
The Australian Curriculum: English has an important role in developing consumer and financial literacy in young people. The English curriculum develops students’ understanding of how to read, view and interpret texts. Through the literacy strand of the …
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Consumer and financial literacy: 7-10 Economics and Business
The Australian Curriculum: Economics and Business is uniquely positioned to develop consumer and financial literacy in young people. The curriculum supports the development of the dimensions of consumer and financial literacy as shown in the diagram below. Approximate …
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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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Consumer and financial literacy: Year 3
The diverse circumstances in which children grow up influence their needs, wants, perceptions and behaviours related to financial and consumer matters. Typically, at age eight to nine, parents regulate how children manage their needs and wants within …
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Balga Senior High School
Balga Senior High School is a 7-12 co-educational government school located in Balga, Western Australia on the Traditional Lands of the Whadjuk Peoples. The focus of their STEM Connections project was to integrate the F1 in Schools STEM challenge in their …
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Redlynch State College
Redlynch State College is a F-12 school located in Redlynch, Queensland on the Traditional Lands of the Yirrganydji Peoples. Their STEM Connection project focused on students monitoring the water quality in rain water tanks. School sector: Government School …
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Consumer and financial literacy: Science
The Australian Curriculum: Science has an important role in developing consumer and financial literacy in young people. Science supports the development of the dimensions of consumer and financial literacy as shown in the diagram below. Approximate …
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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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Drummond Memorial Public School (Years 3 and 4)
Drummond Memorial Public School is located in Armidale, New South Wales on the Traditional Lands of the Nganyaywana People and Anaiwan People. The focus of their Years 3–4 STEM Connections illustration of practice was building teacher capacity through …
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