Public Learning Elements
Creative Writing Through Short Stories
- Discipline: English
- Topic: Creative Writing
- Prior knowledge: None
- Age range: 15-16
- Publisher: Lanyon Cluster of Schools
This unit is a study of ancient China and the links between the power of the ancient Emperors and that of modern China.
- Discipline: History
- Topic: The ways governments maintain power in ancient and modern China with links to democracy in Australia
- Prior knowledge: Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
- Age range: 15-16
- Publisher: Lanyon Cluster of Schools
Students explore Chinese shadow puppets, woodworking techniques and the elements of design to create their own shadow puppets.
- Discipline: Technology
- Topic: Woodwork and Studies of Asia
- Prior knowledge:
- Age range: 12-14
- Publisher: Self-published
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.
- Discipline: English
- Topic: A literacy study for 9-12 year olds
- Prior knowledge: Other stories, including traditional fairy tales; how to reference a text using the Harvard style.
- Age range: 9-12
- Publisher: Lanyon Cluster of Schools
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: Lanyon Cluster of Schools
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.
- Discipline: Languages other than English, English and Literacy
- Topic: Japanese history with a focus on Horoshima
- Prior knowledge: some prior knowledge of the Japanese culture is needed.
- Age range: 9-11
- Publisher: Self-published
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
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
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
- Topic:
- Prior knowledge:
- Age range: 14-15
- Publisher: Self-published
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