Letter: Life in Ancient China - ABOVE
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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Holiday conversation – AT
In a unit on holiday plans, students researched sites to see and activities to do in Arabic-speaking countries, learnt the language for making reservations at a hotel and purchasing tickets for travelling. They learnt about formal language use required …
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Water in the world - ABOVE
Students explored how water connects places, environments and people. Provided with images, graphs and thematic world maps showing average annual precipitation and access to improved drinking water, students were asked to identify global patterns of average …
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Migration to Australia – AT
Students completed scaffolded inquiry into migration to Australia. Part 1 involved an examination of the sources of migration. Part 2 involved using data to draw conclusions about the nature and purpose of migration. The task involved students conducting …
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Water in the world - AT
Students explored how water connects places, environments and people. Provided with images, graphs and thematic world maps showing average annual precipitation and access to improved drinking water, students were asked to identify global patterns of average …
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Harmony Day - Above
Students completed a teacher-created worksheet to answer questions, and gather and interpret information associated with Harmony Day (21 March). As part of the task students completed a survey of the cultural heritage of their year group, and recorded …
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Harmony Day – AT
Students completed a teacher-created worksheet to answer questions, and gather and interpret information associated with Harmony Day (21 March). As part of the task students completed a survey of the cultural heritage of their year group, and recorded …
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Historical inquiry: Kokoda - Above
Students explored the experience of Australians during World War II. They developed a series of inquiry questions in relation to the events and significance of the Kokoda campaign. Students presented their findings as a report, using the inquiry questions …
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Concrete sculpture – AT
In prior learning activities, students learnt concepts and performed experiments relating to chemical and physical changes. They performed a research investigation into the rock cycle with a particular focus on the processes of weathering and erosion. This …
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Verbal response: Staying safe - AT
Students identified feelings in day-to-day activities and distinguished between safe and unsafe situations. Students identified and explained warning signs and how to take action to keep themselves safe in their small rural community. Students were asked …
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Verbal response: Staying safe - BELOW
Students identified feelings in day-to-day activities and distinguished between safe and unsafe situations. Students identified and explained warning signs and how to take action to keep themselves safe in their small rural community. Students were …
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Written response: Identity - ABOVE
Students participated in a five-week unit of work about personal wellbeing and relationships, with a focus on belonging, resilience and personal and cultural identities. Physical activity challenges were used to generate discussion about linking feelings …
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Reflections on a shadow day - ABOVE
Students were part of a mixed-ability, multi-aged class of combined Year 9 and Year 10 students. In cooperation with the teacher, students negotiated a day to shadow a person working in an occupation of interest. Prior to the experience, students prepared …
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Identicube - AT
Students were asked to fill in a table writing the relevant information about themselves under the given sub-headings. This was a class activity where students were encouraged to use expressions learnt during a unit of work on Identity. Students then …
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About me (Indonesian) - AT
Students were asked to complete sentences with appropriate information about themselves. This activity was undertaken after students had learned to introduce themselves, count from one to ten, say their age, and say which fruit they liked in Indonesian. …
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Like Statements - AT
Students had been learning sentence patterns through songs, games, reading and writing activities. Year 2 students were asked to write a sentence about their likes and dislikes using Hiragana and Romaji. They were able to refer to classroom posters and …
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Animals - AT
Students were asked to describe an animal of their choice in hiragana using their knowledge of adjectives, particles and sentence structure. They were provided with a vocabulary list and had previously learned Japanese sentence structure and the role …
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What do you want to do? – AT
Following on from the daily routine/leisure activities task, students built upon phrases from songs, videos and games related to this theme. New phrases were introduced and practised through the bilingual song ‘Me gusta cantar’ and students learnt the …
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Animales de Venezuela – AT (Spanish 5-6)
Students built on their understanding of animals, describing their characteristics, habitat, what they eat and what they can do. Students used sentence constructions with present tense verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, plural forms, …
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Un viaje a Bolivia - At
In this unit, students learnt about travelling through Spanish-speaking countries from an English speaker’s perspective, considering historical and cultural features and traditions, and places and events of interest. They learnt language and grammar related …
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