Reflection: My strengths and me - BELOW
The teacher assisted students to understand what identity is and how identities can be influenced and formed over time. The teacher and students discussed character strengths and achievements through the use of personal experiences, picture books and …
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Posters: Personal safety - BELOW
Students undertook a six-week unit involving protective behaviours to keep themselves safe. This included sun, water, playground and community safety. Students were asked to make a poster to share sun safety messages. Students were also asked to write …
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Analysis: Food and nutrition - BELOW
Students learnt about the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating and its categories. They discussed influences on the food and drink people consume and what food is needed to stay healthy. Students were asked to record what they had eaten in the previous …
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Poster: Stay safe - AT
As part of a unit of work on safety, students learnt about what the concept of safety means in the classroom, school and local community. Students were asked to design a poster illustrating an important aspect of safety in each setting (classroom, school …
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Composition: Walking to School - ABOVE
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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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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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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What should I wear today? – AT
Students learnt about various items of clothing and to express and show understanding of simple sentences about clothes. Students were aware that Spanish and English share the same alphabet, but letters and sounds are pronounced differently. In this …
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Letter: Life in ancient China – At (History)
Students were asked to adopt the perspective of a peasant in ancient China and to write a letter describing the main features of their life. This task was undertaken at the end of a unit on ancient China in which students investigated housing, work, clothing, …
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Interview: An idea that changed the world - At
Students worked in pairs to research one allocated progressive idea or movement from the 18th or 19th century. They were asked to identify its features and to adopt the persona of one of its leaders or proponents. Students then wrote the script for an …
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Design project: Seed to sandwich - ABOVE
Students explored requirements for plant growth and the production and processing steps to get from a wheat seed to a food product (loaf of bread). They created a visual representation (road map) to plot the steps from a wheat seed to a loaf of bread. …
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Investigation: Networks - AT
Students investigated how data are transmitted and secured in wired, wireless and mobile networks. They reported on the nature of networks and how components impact on the operation of networks. They described at least one communication protocol for sending …
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Digital project: Exploring Python - ABOVE
Students designed and implemented solutions to increasingly complex problems using the object-oriented programming language Python. They explored different programming constructs and user interfaces using both a command line and graphical interface. Students …
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Design project: Rainbow costumes - ABOVE
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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Analysis: Food and nutrition - ABOVE
Students learnt about the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating and its categories. They discussed influences on the food and drink people consume and what food is needed to stay healthy. Students were asked to record what they had eaten in the previous …
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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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Mein Alltag – AT
Students learnt language and expressions to describe daily routines, and how to communicate opinions, thoughts and feelings about these. They learnt about structuring text types relevant to audience, purpose and context, and using a range of language …
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Gold rushes: wants and needs – ABOVE
Students studied life on the nineteenth century gold fields from the perspective of the gold miners. They investigated the wants and needs of miners at the time, using teacher-selected source material, and made a comparison with present-day wants and …
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Mi Familia– AT
Students learnt about family members, nationality (saying where they are from) and how to describe physical characteristics in the third person. In this task, students were asked to create a short, written description about a family member(s) including …
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Reflection: The legacy of Rome – Above
Students were asked to reflect on the legacy of ancient Rome for modern society, and write a response as part of an end-of-unit task. They were asked to make connections between the ancient and modern worlds, incorporate images in their texts, and to …
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