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.

This learning element focuses on a multimodal text which combines a narrative text and an information text. Students read and respond to the text, drawing out similarities and differences, and analyse the visual and linguistic grammar of the text. Students then create their own multimodal texts.

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.

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.

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.

This is a unit of work where students will take an in depth look at the Japanese involvement in WWII and the effects of the atomic bomb on the Japanese people.

Students will be required to study images, pieces of writing, video and audio to gain an empathic understanding of the Hiroshima bombing.

In literacy they will also study Photographs in the Mud, exploring the visual and linguistic features of this multimodal text.

Students are to revise graphing points on a number plane, Graphing straight lines using a table of values, graphing using the y = mx + c form of a line, rearrange linear equations into the y= mx + c form, solving problems using graphing, working with parallel or perpendicualr lines and determine midpoint, gradient or distance between two points using formulae.

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.

Students are to revise graphing points on a number plane, Graphing straight lines using a table of values, graphing using the y = mx + c form of a line, rearrange linear equations into the y= mx + c form, solving problems using graphing, working with parallel or perpendicualr lines and determine midpoint, gradient or distance between two points using formulae.