Refugees and citizenship – AT
Students completed three tasks to explore different perspectives on the experiences of refugees in Australia. These tasks took place at differing stages of a unit of work on migration. Firstly, students were provided with a list of notable Australians …
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Email to a member of parliament – ABOVE
Students explored levels of mobile phone use and ownership in Australia as part of a unit on resources, consumers and businesses. They then wrote an email that might be sent to their local federal member of parliament requesting new legislation in relation …
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Fruit - At
Students had learnt the names of fruit and used this vocabulary to create simple sentences using scaffolded examples to count and to express likes/dislikes. In this task, students were asked questions about fruit, counting the objects and writing a response …
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About me – AT (Spanish)
Students learnt self-introductions and how to share basic information about physical characteristics at word and simple sentence levels. Students participated in various activities to learn body parts and colours and read and write simple vocabulary and …
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Me gusta – AT
Students learnt about likes and dislikes with frequently used vocabulary items such as fruit and animals. Students learnt how to make phrases negative in Spanish. In this task, students were required to create a poster showing their likes and dislikes …
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Animales de Venezuela – AT (Spanish 3-4)
Students learnt about Venezuelan animals and how to describe habitat, characteristics, what they eat and what they can do. Students were familiar with simple sentence constructions using present tense verbs, adjectives, simple conjunctions, plural forms, …
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Around the town – AT
Students learnt about places around the town starting with cognates (escuela, parque, supermercado, zoo, piscina, cine, teatro, biblioteca). Students were given familiar vocabulary with a graphic organiser to write sentences like ‘Yo voy a …’. Opportunities …
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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 week – AT
Students learnt vocabulary and phrases related to daily routines and leisure activities. Students revised how to tell the time and days of the week. Using scaffolded examples, students created their own sentences to provide specific details about their …
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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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Español mind map and reflection– AT
In this unit, students discussed the Spanish-speaking world, some of the differences between Spanish and English and the benefits of language learning. Students learnt about displaying this knowledge and understanding through mind maps and Venn diagrams. In …
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My Spanish learning journey – AT
Students participated in whole-class and peer discussions about their Spanish learning journey. Concepts such as identity, intercultural awareness, metalanguage, values, global citizenship and culture were unpacked and discussed, with students recording …
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Invitación para un amigo – AT
Students learnt the vocabulary and language structures to describe leisure activities for young people, to interact with friends and how to make suggestions and invitations. Students also learnt about adjustment of language for purpose, context and audience, …
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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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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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Entrepreneurs - ABOVE (HASS)
Students studied examples of businesses associated with entrepreneurs. They identified the characteristics of each entrepreneur, the strengths of the business and created general categories associated with entrepreneurial behaviour. Students then adopted …
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Entrepreneurs - AT (HASS)
Students studied examples of businesses associated with entrepreneurs. They identified the characteristics of each entrepreneur, the strengths of the business and created general categories associated with entrepreneurial behaviour. Students then adopted …
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Paragraph: Ancient Egypt - ABOVE
Students examined a series of images of the wall decorations of two different ancient Egyptian tombs. They used the information in the images to make inferences and draw conclusions about life in this ancient society. Students expressed their ideas in …
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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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Paragraph: Ancient Egypt – Above (History)
Students examined a series of images of the wall decorations of two different ancient Egyptian tombs. They used the information in the images to make inferences and draw conclusions about life in this ancient society. Students expressed their ideas in …
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