In this unit the students will look at traditional Japanese dress, fashion sub cultures, fabrics, traditional and modern dyeing techniques.  The students will identify the features of traditional Japanese costume and understand how it can be transformed into contemporary garment designs.  During the unit the students will learn traditional dyeing methods and will apply their understanding of traditional Japanese design through the construction of a Japanese inspired cushion. 

Five week unit of work that concentrates on reduce, reuse, recycle. The unit is based around implementing a recycling program in a school environment. The learning element will introduce and analyse the concept of waste management particulary focusing on reducing waste through recycling. Narrative texts will be used as a vehicle to explore the theme

This unit provides a snapshot of Australia through aspects of its geography, history and contemporary society on a state by state basis.  Each week students participate in the same activities with a different state as the focus.

This five week unit aims to develop an informed and practical understanding of the problems of waste in both the local community and the wider world.  Students will be encouraged to research and adopt positive actions to reduce, reuse and recycle waste, culminating in the implementation of school wide waste recycling program. Narrative and information texts will be used as vehicles to introduce and explore the theme.

Gradual release of the predicting process is used with nonfictional texts. 

This unit is designed to be used with Quest Atlantis and in conjunction with the reading the graphic novel American Born Chinese.  

This LBD is for use with both Quest Atlantis and the book American Born Chinese.  For those who do not use Quest Atlantis, the activities can be modified for use outside the 3-D gaming environment.

This learning element looks at issues such as education, race, wealth, poverty and hunger through a simulation based on Our Miniature Earth, developed by World Vision.

Community awareness of nutrition, lifestyle, functions of body systems and exercise is growing. Students will learn about personal wellbeing and how lifestyle choices influence emotional, social and physical health development. 

Food labelling and dietary information provide us with the opportunity to make choices in our diet. Certain ingredients and food additives present in our food can impact our health and wellbeing.

This learning element ranges from the beginning of the "experiencing the known" process with Brave New World all the way through reading the novel and working on the literary analysis paper that works as a capstone on the novel and typically on the course as a whole.  

Students will explore the features of 3D shapes.  They will investigate the relationship between Surface Area (SA) and Volume (V).

They will theorise on their own formula for finding the SA and V of different prisms.

They will create 3D sculptures and critically analyse each others work.

They will investigate the relationship between the weight of water and the space it takes up and the metric measuring system.