Social media: Aztecs and Incas - ABOVE
Students were asked to create a series of social media posts regarding an aspect of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. They were required to choose an appropriate platform incorporating text and images and were provided with teacher-created templates …
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Expansion – AT
Prior to the sample task, students explored states of matter focusing on how the particle model explains matter in its different states at a molecular level. They had completed various inquiries relating to the particle model including kinaesthetic activities …
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Source analysis: Vikings - AT
Students examined a teacher-curated collection of primary and secondary sources associated with the life and history of the Vikings. They were asked to select three sources from the collection and write an analysis of each, focusing upon its usefulness …
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Postcard from Angkor Wat - At
Students were asked to imagine visiting Angkor Wat in Cambodia and to design and write the two sides of a postcard detailing what they had seen and learned at the site. They were provided with a teacher-created template to record their thoughts and observations, …
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Comparison: Knight versus samurai - AT
Students compared the life and roles of European knights and Japanese samurai in medieval times. They examined a selection of primary and secondary sources provided by the class teacher and teacher-librarian and summarised their findings on a Venn diagram. …
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Solar car experiment– ABOVE
As part of an integrated STEM project, students had previously designed and built a solar-powered toy car and they used this to investigate the transformation of light energy into electrical and kinetic energy. Students designed and performed an experiment …
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Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Recognise intellectual property apply practices that comply with legal obligations regarding the ownership and use of digital products resources Apply digital information security practices independently …
Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8) | Responsibility and enterprise | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Languages: Japanese - Satisfactory - Years 7 and 8 (Year 7 entry)
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can interact with peers and the teacher in classroom routines and activities (WS3), exchanging greetings, wishes and information about their personal and social worlds (WS2, WS4). The student uses …
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Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically by the end of Year 8, students: Apply digital information security practices independently apply strategies for determining the appropriate type of digital information suited to the location of storage and adequate security for online environments Apply …
Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8) | Digital media literacy | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically by the end of Year 8, students: Apply digital information security practices independently apply strategies for determining the appropriate type of digital information suited to the location of storage and adequate security for online environments Apply …
Information and Communication Technology Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8) | Informed and safe use of information and devices | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures - Years 7 and 8
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples live in Australia as first peoples of Country or Place and demonstrate resilience in responding to historic and contemporary impacts of colonisation. HPE Yr7/8 (ACPPS077): exploring how spiritual connection …
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures - Years 7 and 8 | Health and wellbeing | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Numeracy - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Understand and use numbers in context compare, order and use positive and negative numbers to solve everyday problems Interpret proportional reasoning visualise and describe the proportions of percentages, …
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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Recognise intellectual property apply practices that comply with legal obligations regarding the ownership and use of digital products resources Apply digital information security practices independently …
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8) | Multimedia dimensions | Dimensions | Curriculum connections | Resources
Geography - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 Geographical knowledge and understanding Water in the world Content descriptions with elaborations: The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource (ACHGK037) classifying resources into renewable, …
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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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Obento project and reflection - AT
Over the course of a 4-week unit about portable meals (Obento), etiquette and food culture, students were asked to plan and create their own obento following the criteria and guidelines explored in class and complete a range of tasks at each step. Students …
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Oskar yang ramah - AT
Students were asked to write an email or letter to their much older self using the vocabulary and language structures in Indonesian that they had learnt during that term. This task was completed in class and conducted under test conditions as a summative …
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Family profile - AT
Students had learnt about family, kanji for family members, using basic counters for people and age and using adjectives to describe personalities. In this task, students were asked to create a poster about an imaginary family using short descriptive …
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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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Landscapes - BELOW
Students were engaged in a process of creating an artwork of a landscape with merged perspectives to communicate a viewpoint on sustainability. They explored Aboriginal Waanyi artist Judy Watson’s own viewpoints on sustainability, as well as her use of …
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