Civics and Citizenship – Satisfactory – Year 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can analyse features of Australian democracy, and explain features of Australia’s democracy that enable active participation (WS1). The student recognises different types of laws in Australia and explains …
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Civics and Citizenship – Above satisfactory – Year 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can analyse features of Australian democracy, and explain features of Australia’s democracy that enable active participation (WS1). The student recognises different types of laws in Australia and explains …
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History - Above satisfactory - Year 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can recognise and explain patterns of change and continuity over time (WS2, WS5). The student explains the causes and effects of events and developments (WS2, WS3, WS5). The student describes in detail the …
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History - Satisfactory - Year 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can recognise and explain patterns of change and continuity over time (WS2, WS5). The student explains the causes and effects of events and developments (WS2, WS3, WS5). The student identifies the …
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English - Year 8
Visual language Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning (ACELA1548) Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies to interpret and evaluate texts by reflecting on …
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7-10 History - Year 8
Historical questions and research Content descriptions with elaborations: Identify and locate relevant sources, using ICT and other methods (ACHHS151) compiling a list of different sources needed in an inquiry and their possible locations Analysis …
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English - Year 8
Language Text structure and organisation Analyse how the text structures and language features of persuasive texts, including media texts, vary according to the medium and mode of communication (ACELA1540) Understand how coherence is created in complex …
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Ethical Understanding - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically by the end of Year 8, students: Examine values assess the relevance of beliefs and the role and application of values in social practices Explore rights and responsibilities analyse rights and responsibilities in relation to the duties of …
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Ethical Understanding - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Consider consequences investigate scenarios that highlight ways that personal dispositions and actions can affect consequences Examine values assess the relevance of beliefs and the role and application of …
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Ethical Understanding - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically by the end of Year 8, students: Consider consequences investigate scenarios that highlight ways that personal dispositions and actions can affect consequences Reflect on ethical action analyse perceptions of occurrences and possible ethical …
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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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Media Arts - Years 7 and 8
Exploring ideas and improvising with ways to represent ideas Experiment with the organisation of ideas to structure stories through media conventions and genres to create points of view in images, sounds and text (ACAMAM066) Manipulating and applying …
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Literacy - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Navigate, read and view learning area texts navigate, read and view a variety of challenging subject-specific texts with a wide range of graphic representations Listen and respond to learning area texts listen …
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Design and Technologies - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 and 8 Design and technologies knowledge and understanding Content descriptions with elaborations Investigate the ways in which products, services and environments evolve locally, regionally and globally and how competing factors including social, …
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Personal and Social Capability - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Work independently and show initiative critique their effectiveness in working independently by identifying enablers and barriers to achieving goals Become confident, resilient and adaptable assess, adapt …
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Analysis: Contact - BELOW
Students studied the communicative power of technical elements used in Media Arts as part of a unit of work on the documentary Contact (2009) by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler. They explored and analysed the technical elements of voice-over, music, sound …
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Design project: Desktop lamp - BELOW
Students completed an investigation of lighting technology and design developments over the past century. They developed knowledge and understanding of lighting technologies and the impact they have locally and globally. Students identified key elements …
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Landscapes - ABOVE
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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Design project: Desktop lamp - ABOVE
Students completed an investigation of lighting technology and design developments over the past century. They developed knowledge and understanding of lighting technologies and the impact they have locally and globally. Students identified key elements …
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Fluency
In F–2, students become fluent as they develop skills in choosing appropriate procedures; and recalling factual knowledge and concepts readily. In Years 3–6, students become fluent as they develop skills in choosing appropriate procedures; carrying out …
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