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Waterways: behaviour change

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We have the power to help keep our coastlines, rivers, lakes, swamps, creeks, floodplains, billabongs and estuaries clean by diverting rubbish from our waterways. We can all be change makers. By altering our everyday habits such as limiting our use of single-use plastic items, we can also inspire others to do the same. This ...

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How to disagree productively and find common ground - Julia Dhar

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Debating champion Lauren Dahr discusses the principles and potential of civil and productive debating. In this 15 min video she reflects on the state of public discourse and the role listening and persuasion play in debate. She proposes some strategies and approaches to move a disagreement to more common and respectful ...

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Focus on Japan: Cross Curriculum Connections in Secondary Schools

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Ideas and resources that connect the learning of Japanese language with other learning areas.

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Creating Fictional Characters

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In this teaching activity, students will examine character as a significant element of fictional stories. They will learn methods of characterization, identify supporting details, and critique these methods in works of fiction.

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Learning From Lyrics

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In this lesson, students will research the lyrics of contemporary songs to analyse how social issues, are expressed through music and other art forms. Students will interpret song lyrics to create original art expressing the theme, issue, point of view, and/or facts from the song.

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Whose Country: exploring First Nations peoples languages map (13-18yrs)

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This activity introduces the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Nations peoples of this Country. They are the traditional custodians of the lands, waterways and skies across Australia and that it is important for us to recognise that. Learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages ...

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Setting the Story

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In this lesson, students will examine setting as a significant element of fiction. They will learn to use elements of mood and spatial order as methods of creating realistic settings. Students will write a short story describing a scene then create sketches interpreting their peers' writing pieces.

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Ubby’s Underdogs: The Legend of the Phoenix Dragon: Unit of work

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This unit of work has been written to support the book Ubby’s Underdogs: The Legend of the Phoenix Dragon. The book interweaves Aboriginal and Chinese mythology to create an adventurous story filled with local-Broome culture. This unit includes practical ideas for using this book in your classroom.

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How to teach digital citizenship and online safety - Scope and sequence Australian curriculum

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This resource provides links to lessons and activities at each level of schooling from Foundation to Year 10 in the area of online safety.

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Representations in film and text

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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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Exploring the speculative

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Students investigate speculative fiction, its evolution and how changes in the genre can reflect changing values. They analyse and discuss the ways that writers of speculative fiction use and manipulate language to convey thematic messages in their texts. Students deepen their understanding of authorial intent and reflect ...

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The Gathering: Unit of work

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This unit of work has been written to support the novel The Gathering. The novel explores themes such as good vs evil, conformity vs individuality, and the nature of friendship. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, an assessment task and an essay by Ruth Starke.

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The Art of Taxidermy: Unit of work

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This unit of work has been written to support the novel The Art of Taxidermy which is a verse novel about sadness and loss, and the role of art in helping people manage challenges. Themes include connections to the natural world, grief, holding on to the past, relationships and vulnerability. This unit provides practical ...

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Sample scope and sequence – Year 9

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This sample scope and sequence for Year 9 is aligned to the New South Wales English K–10 Syllabus (NESA 2022). It may be useful to teachers from other states and territories for comparative purposes.

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Poetic purpose

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Through this resource, students will explore a range of texts written by Aboriginal poets. They will investigate how poets use and manipulate language, form and structure for specific purposes. Students will investigate and analyse the ways that perspective and context influence the creation and reception of texts. This ...

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Follow the rabbit-proof fence: Unit of work

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This unit of work has been written to support the accounts of the Stolen Generations as told to Doris Pilkington by members of her family in Western Australia in the 1930s. The memoir imagines the historical experiences of Indigenous Australians prior to contact with European colonists and the experiences and consequences ...

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Debating guide for classroom teachers

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This teacher guide provides advice about the key elements of debating as well as a judging guide, planning templates for each speaker and links to a range of resources.

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Core Concepts in English

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The videos, posters and support information on this set of webpages support students from a range of year levels to understand the textual concepts in English. Find posters and student-friendly videos that define genre, intertextuality, literary value, style, character development, imagery and many others. They have been ...

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Sometimes Gladness: Unit of work

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This unit of work has been written to support the poetry collection Sometimes Gladness which features the poetry of Bruce Dawe. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, an assessment task and an essay by Matthew Condon.

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Respectful Civil Discourse: Post-Referendum (Years 9 and 10)

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This set of resources about civil discourse education uses the Uluru Statement from the Heart and other resources as the basis for students in Years 9 and 10 to discuss the types of debates that occurred during the 2023 referendum for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The focus ...

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