Australian Curriculum / General Capabilities / Literacy / Word Knowledge / Understand learning area vocabulary
use growing subject-specific vocabulary to read, discuss and write about learning area topics
First Contact Community Preview Unit |
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A Convict's Life: Reasons for the Journey
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will research stories of convicts who were on the First Fleet. |
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A Convict's Life: Aboard the First Fleet
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the conditions experienced by convicts aboard the First Fleet. |
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Researching an Artefact: Europeans
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will work in pairs to design an artefact that a convict or marine would have used in their day-to-day life and write a journal entry from the perspective of this person. |
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Researching an Artefact: First Peoples of Australia
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will work in pairs to draw an artefact and draft an oral history from the perspective of a member of the First Peoples of Australia. |
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Habit of Mind: Persisting
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn about the habit of 'Persisting'. |
The Blue Marble Sustainability Preview Unit |
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Sharing Our 3:2:1 R:I:Q
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will reflect on their excursion and share their insights or questions with the class |
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Conducting An Independent Inquiry
· Future Action and Independent Inquiry
Your students will practise the skills of questioning, research and working independently as they conduct an inquiry into a topic that they have learnt about during this unit. |
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A Glossary Of Sustainability
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will create a crossword using the glossary of this learning sequence. |
The Game of Life Identity Preview Unit |
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Glossary of Identity
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will write the definition of words that they already know from the glossary of this unit. |