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Education - Return to 1616 Ecological Restoration Project

This is a comprehensive education package based on of the world's most exciting ecological restoration projects that is happening right now in Western Australia! It features interactive virtual tours, 3D skulls, videos, real-action inquiry projects, research projects, native animal educational card games and activities, ...

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What is the area?

Use this diagnostic task to assess what students know about area and using the area formula.

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Leaf task

Use this diagnostic task to assess understanding of area and measuring the area of an irregular shape.

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Pour to decide

Use this diagnostic task to assess if students know about capacity and comparing containers based on how much they hold.

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Assessment tasks: metric units and relationship to decimals

Use the diagnostic tasks, Page sections and Decimals and measures, to assess a student’s understanding of metric units and their relationship to decimals.

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Diagnostic task: Volume of prisms

Use these diagnostic tasks, Volume of prisms (1) and Volume of prisms (2), to assess a student’s understanding of working out the volume of rectangular prisms and a formula for volume.

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Ice cream puddles

Use this diagnostic task to assess understanding of area and comparing the area of two shapes using a relevant approach.

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Kitchen scales

Use this diagnostic task to assess a student's understanding of mass and the graduations on a kitchen scale.

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The coloured cube

Use this task to reveal if the student can see in their ‘mind’s eye’ the transformation from a 2D net to a 3D object.

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Which lunchbox holds more?

Use this diagnostic task to assess what students know about volume and units to compare volumes.

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Desk through the doorway

Use this diagnostic task in the style of a one-on-one interview to assess a student's understanding and skills in comparing length.

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Which tin?

Use this diagnostic task in the style of a one-on-one interview to assess a student's knowledge and understanding of an object's properties, and their use of comparative language.

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First steps in Mathematics: Space – Diagnostic tasks

A collection of diagnostic tasks designed to use with students to assess their understanding of space-related concepts in mathematics.

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Tiling problem

Use this diagnostic task to assess if students use an array structure when working out how many tiles fit in a rectangle.

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Categorisation

Use this task to assess students’ knowledge and understanding of properties of shapes, and language they use when describing common features.

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How heavy is this frog/tin?

Use this diagnostic task to assess understanding of mass and units used to measure mass.

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Broken ruler

This task can be used to reveal whether students can use markings on a ruler to measure in centimetres and whether they understand how the number on the scale relates to the units.

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Which has more volume?

Use this diagnostic task to assess what students know about volume and units to measure and compare volumes.

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Snail trails

Refer to the diagnostic task for a guide on how to conduct a one-on-one interview where the student is asked to measure length by choosing an informal unit.

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The farm

Use this task to assist in assessing student knowledge, skills and processes related to drawing a plan, showing the position and orientation of objects and positional language they use.