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

A Convict's Life: Reasons for the Journey · Learning Opportunities
Your students will research stories of convicts who were on the First Fleet.
A Convict's Life: Aboard the First Fleet · Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the conditions experienced by convicts aboard the First Fleet.
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.
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.
Habit of Mind: Persisting · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn about the habit of 'Persisting'.

The Blue Marble Sustainability Preview Unit

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
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.
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

Glossary of Identity · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will write the definition of words that they already know from the glossary of this unit.