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Losing Hearts and Minds: The Vietnam Conflict Fought at Home
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An analysis of why the Australian involvement in the Vietnam War occured with a particular focus upon anti-war sentiment and primary source material.

  • Discipline: History - part of the Society and the Environment stream
  • Topic: The Vietnam War: Australian involvement and anti-war sentiment in Australia and the United States of America
  • Prior knowledge: Basic geographical mapping skills
  • Age range: 15-16
  • Publisher: Self-published
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Drug Use Issues
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This learning element is an adaptation of curriculum developed in Western Australia and modelled through Learning by Design for use within Lyneham High Schools PE curriculum.

This learning element has a drug use issues focus and content related to young people and utility knowledge about drug use. It includes student drug use statistics, myths associated with drug use, harms and consequences of cannabis and other illicit drug use.

  • Discipline: Health
  • Topic: Drugs
  • Prior knowledge: Nil
  • Age range: 14-15
  • Publisher: Self-published
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Why Study Poetry?
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This unit will explore some major questions about Poetry; What do poems tell us, what emotions do poets write about, how do we experience poetry & what makes a piece of writing a poem?

  • Discipline: Year 9 English
  • Topic: Poetry - why, what & how
  • Prior knowledge: Understanding of narrative structure and literary devices. Understanding of Cooperative Reading and positioning of the audience by the author.
  • Age range: 14-15
  • Publisher: Self-published
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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This learning element is based on the novel "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress".  The novel is a semi-autobiographical account of the author's experiences being re-educated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

  • Discipline: English
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  • Prior knowledge:
  • Age range: 14-15
  • Publisher: Self-published
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Earrings!
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A persuasive writing unit using the book, Earrings! by Judith Viorst.

 

  • Discipline: Language Arts
  • Topic: Persuasive Writing
  • Prior knowledge: Elaboration, Narrative Writing, Introductions and Conclusions
  • Age range: 11-13
  • Publisher: Self-published
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Puberty Blues
Puberty Blues
Description:

The unit "Puberty Blues" develops an understanding of the physical, social and emotional changes that take place during puberty and beyond.  Students will be exposed to changes in thier family and cultural group, gebder stereotypes and reflect on thier personal views and worth.

  • Discipline: Health
  • Topic: Puberty
  • Prior knowledge: Similarities and difference between others, physcial changes since birth, major body parts and functions
  • Age range: 10-12
  • Publisher: Self-published
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Canonic Conundrums
Canonic Conundrums
Description:

Canonic Conundrums is a learning unit designed for a non-auditioned high school, curricular choral ensemble/course containing students grades 10-12 representing diverse musical experience levels.

  • Discipline: High School Choral Music
  • Topic: Learning Unit: Canon
  • Prior knowledge: Basic Choral Music and Vocal Technique
  • Age range: 9-12
  • Publisher: Self-published
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Predicting Fiction
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Gradual release of the predicting process is used with fictional texts. For the purposes of this learning element, activities were designed for the implementation of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie at the beginning of a school year.

  • Discipline: Language Arts
  • Topic: Reading Comprehension Skills
  • Prior knowledge: This is the first of six comprehension strategies.
  • Age range: 12-16
  • Publisher: Self-published
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Drugs
Drugs
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The purpose of this unit is to provide students with skills to make informed decisions and to give strategies to deal with current issues around drugs and safe partying. The students will develop resilience enabling them to make healthy choices improving their wellbeing.

 

  • Discipline: Health and Wellbeing
  • Topic: Drug and resilience education
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  • Age range: Adult
  • Publisher: Self-published
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The Shape of Things
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Students explore properties of shapes inclucing angles, right angles, parrallel lines, equal, classifying shapes and exploring similarities and differences between shapes.

  • Discipline: Mathematics
  • Topic: Properties of Shapes
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  • Age range: 12-13
  • Publisher: Self-published
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