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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Digital project: Python game - BELOW
Students were provided with a game that had been developed by previous students at the school using Python. They were required to correct any errors and to modify the game by creating additional features and functionality, for example new character races, …
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Data analysis: Water in the world – AT
Over a period of six weeks, students explored how water connects places, environments and people. Students used digital technologies to present the process of orographic rainfall and explain how it influences the characteristics on either side of a mountain. Students …
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Data analysis: Food scarcity - ABOVE
Over a period of six weeks, students examined the biomes of the world, how humans have altered environments for food production, and the main challenges of providing food security. Various case studies were used from Australia and other parts of the world …
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Research inquiry: Interconnections - AT
Students were required to select one product that is purchased by their household and investigate how the production and demand for this product creates networks of trade and economic interdependence at and across different scales. The inquiry took place …
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Research inquiry: Interconnections - BELOW
Students were required to select one product that is purchased by their household and investigate how the production and demand for this product creates networks of trade and economic interdependence at and across different scales. The inquiry took place …
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Establishing a new colony – ABOVE
Students investigated the early years of settlement of one Australian colony. Using sources provided by the teacher, and with the regular support of the teacher-librarian, they generated a series of inquiry questions to lead to the creation of a collection …
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Expansion - Above
Prior to the sample task, students had 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 …
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Travel advice - above
As part of their teaching and learning unit on biological sciences, students investigated how living organisms maintain the requirements for life through the coordinated function of body systems, such as the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, nervous …
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Rates of reaction – ABOVE
Students were asked to research factors that affect the rate of a chemical reaction. Working in groups of 3–4, students were asked to select one factor and design and perform an experiment to confirm its effect. Students presented their findings individually …
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Mouse trap dragster – Canobolas
This task was part of a unit of work designed to investigate forces and laws of motion. Students participated in a series of lessons covering Newton’s Laws of Motion, forces and simple machines. Teachers provided students with skills in research and scientific …
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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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Data analysis: Water in the world – ABOVE
Over a period of six weeks, students explored how water connects places, environments and people. Students used digital technologies to present the process of orographic rainfall and explain how it influences the characteristics on either side of a mountain. Students …
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Research inquiry: Interconnections - ABOVE
Students were required to select one product that is purchased by their household and investigate how the production and demand for this product creates networks of trade and economic interdependence at and across different scales. The inquiry took place …
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