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Representations in film and text

In this activity, students will read Kim Mahood's article Country needs people, analyse the opening quotation and a painting, and explore the diverse representations of traditional ecological knowledge, culminating in a written reflection on how these elements shape their understanding of Martu burning practices.

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Work sample Year 3 Mathematics: Clean our school

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 3 Mathematics. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation ...

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Gambling harm and support networks

In this lesson, students research support networks that are available for gamblers in Australia. They explore how to recognise behaviours that indicate whether gambling is causing harm and how to seek and provide help for harmful gambling behaviours. The lesson is outlined in detail including NSW curriculum links, learning ...

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Staging Shakespeare: How do you stage a comedy scene?

In this lesson, students will explore the nature of comedy by informally staging the opening scenes from William Shakespeare’s play, As You Like It. Students will apply a variety of stylistic approaches to stage scenes from the play, then perform for an audience.

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Character Sketches

What techniques do storytellers use to create characters? In this lesson, students will analyse how a character's personality traits, actions and motives influence the plot of a story. They will use their senses to create character sketches, then dramatize the character for an audience.

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Proportion, Graphs and Equations - Calculate

This unit challenges students to identify and describe everyday examples of ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ proportion. They learn to recognise direct and inverse proportion from graphs, distinguish between positive and negative gradients and use the equation y = kx to model direct linear proportion.

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Space Race Game (Introducing Algorithmic Thinking) - Calculate

Space Race is a simple board game that teachers can use to introduce the concept of algorithmic sequencing to students. The teaching points provided with the game assist teachers to introduce the use of an algorithm (a simple set of mathematical instructions) to describe the trajectory of an object across a grid plane from ...

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The Geology of Minecraft

This short video discusses bedrock, obsidian and redstone using real rock samples and references to the Minecraft game.

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Work sample Year 3 and 4 Health and Physical Education: Striking

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 3 and 4 Health and Physical Education. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an ...

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Work sample Year 9 and 10 Health and Physical Education: Decision-making

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 9 and 10 Health and Physical Education. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an ...

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Work sample Year 3 Mathematics: Ways to make 18

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 3 Mathematics. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation ...

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Multiplication Facts - Calculate

This resources describes some games and activities that can be used to help students learn the multiplication facts (or times tables) up to 10 × 10.

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Voronoi Diagrams - Calculate

This unit of work explores coordinate geometry in the context of Voronoi diagrams. Students use linear coordinate geometry to construct Voronoi diagrams by finding the gradient of a line segment, then finding the midpoint, a perpendicular line and finally the perpendicular bisector.

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Baby Business: Unit of work

This unit of work has been written to support the story 'Baby Business' that tells the story of a Darug baby smoking ceremony welcoming baby to country. Themes include Aboriginal history and culture, child-rearing practices, connection to place, and Indigenous knowledge. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment ...

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Time Year 3 & 4 - Calculate

This lesson focuses on different ways to tell time.

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Salute - Calculate

This game gives students opportunities to practise addition and subtraction strategies and develop algebraic thinking by finding unknown values in additive equations.

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Work sample Year 3 – 4 Japanese: Teaching family members Japanese

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 3 - 4: Teaching family members Japanese. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an ...

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Work sample Year 9 – 10 Japanese: Introduction letter

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 9 - 10: Introduction letter. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic ...

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Investigating Measurement (Year 3 & 4) - Calculate

The focus of this activity is to find out what students know and understand about length and the metric system.

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Addition Year 3 - Calculate

This activity is designed to see if students are able to apply their addition strategies in order to find the total of their collection of cards. Often students will have a method for adding two numbers, but when asked to add a list of numbers they revert to less efficient methods.