Creative Writing Through Short Stories

This unit is a study of ancient China and the links between the power of the ancient Emperors and that of modern China.

Students explore Chinese shadow puppets, woodworking techniques and the elements of design to create their own shadow puppets.

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.

An analysis of why the Australian involvement in the Vietnam War occured with a particular focus upon anti-war sentiment and primary source material.

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.

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.

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?

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.

A persuasive writing unit using the book, Earrings! by Judith Viorst.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Students explore properties of shapes inclucing angles, right angles, parrallel lines, equal, classifying shapes and exploring similarities and differences between shapes.

Students participate in two rotations of enrichment activities, immersing themselves in self-selected activities from Japan. They reflect and report back to the class, sharing their experiences and vocabulary. The class discusses the cross-cultural connections between Australia and Japan through investigating geography, home, school and celebrations. They consolidate this information by writing information reports, creating a poster promoting Japan as a holiday destination and presenting this at a travel expo.

This Learning Element offers ideas for the exploration and critical analysis of a popular packaged children's phenomenon. It suggests a pathway for the deconstruction of a children's television program, the surveying of other's attitudes, allows for assessment of associated mechanising and introduces students to a website related to the group. It gives opportunities for students to transfer knowledge gained to the creation of their own programs as well as to an analysis of other packaged children's phenomena.

This learning element looks at discrimination in society. It links school yard bullying to discrimination in society.

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This course focuses on developing many of the skills necessary for both home entertainment and work in the hospitality industry.  It is centred on specific design breifs and students comple design folios as a record of their planning, investigation and evaluation activities.  Students will develop their food preparation and presentation skills using a wide variety of equipment and specific industry techniques.  Students will work in groups as a focus, sharing their designs with others.  they will also design a cafe in which they will plan, prepare and serve a variety of dishes for paying customers.

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.

This course focuses on the basic components of food, the nutritional value of foods and how students can
select a balanced diet appropriate to their needs. Students will develop their food preparation skills using a
wide variety of equipment and gain a greater understanding of the food groups and nutrients, their importance
in a balanced diet and experiment with food preparation techniques using these foods. The problems associated
with poor food choices and how life cycle, health and lifestyle changes can create special food needs will also
be examined.

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.

This unit of work was developed for the the AGQTP History Project.  It uses ICTs to look at a period of Australian History which was influential in shaping our modern nation.   

This unit builds on students existing knowledge of Government responsibilities, mobile phones, basic economics, banks and credit institutions, budgeting and taxation.

The unit "Puberty Blues" develops an understanding of the physical, social and emotional changes that take place during puberty and beyond.  Puberty, for many, is a time of transition of how one views oneself (identity) and the roles and responsibilities expected of them.  Students explore the changes of responsibility within their own family group and within other cultural groups.  Students are exposed to gender stereotypes and reflect on their worth.  the unit focus is from the self and relationships strand.

This learning element has been designed to engage adolescents in a variety of activities that will enhance their knowledge of statistics and the effects they have on society.

Students will be engaged in activities through a variety of learning modes including use of ICT, interpreting a variety of data, analysing statistics using mathematical language, representing data in a variety of ways, and questioning and making summaries of statistical data.

In this learning unit, entitled “Multi-Cultural Choral Connections”, advanced choral students will be connecting to five different countries and cultures through studying unique, contemporary choral compositions. Though just five perspectives, with these songs we will discover and intimately experience musical traditions and styles from cultures throughout the world. We will experience and notice similarities as well as the differences and come to have empathy and appropriate respect for society's cultural blend.

A sixth grade language arts unit on narrative writing, based on the book, Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter.

Students will compare Ancient Greek government, society and the role of women with Australian Society today. Students are required to write an information report where they are offered the chance to extend themselves.

This learning element focuses on financial and business skills needed to run an enterprise.

Through this unit they will learn about goods and services in relation to needs and wants, rights and responsibilities, budgeting and advertising.

This content will provide students with the skills to create their own enterprise.  To create a successful enterprise students will utilise multimodal advertising to persuade consumers to purchase their good or service.

This learning element addresses the use of money in the younger years. It builds the concepts of earning, saving and spending money.  It also develops an understanding of the value of Australian notes and coins.  Students work in groups and are taught to value group members' contrubutions to achieving a group goal.

The learning element reinforces the connection between a known text (Jack and the Beanstalk) and real life situations; weaving its way gradually through the topics of bartering, the concepts of fair, unfair, needs and wants.

The unit culminates in a market day where the students are given a directive to purchase three things they need for an 'excursion' with money they have 'earnt in the class over the course of the unit.

Throughout the learning element students explore what money is and realise that it is more than just notes and coins.  Students understand that income is often limited and that individuals have to plan or budget to purchase things that they want and need. Using their understanding of money, students critique and assign value to artwork according to its quality and presentation. 

This unit aims to develop students ability to recognise cultural diversity in their personal lives and within the local and global community.  Students will explore how identity is shaped by culture and how people from other cultures have difference perspectives to their own.

The learning element examines different styles of poetry. Students will examine ballads, free verse and literary devices. Their final assessment piece will be a poetry anthology that combines everything they've learnt throughout the unit.

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. 

This learning element introduces students to the concept of the world being a global village, and as such, societies being interconnected. They also explore the connectedness between the geographical features of different parts of the world and how and why people live in those areas.

Originally written by Chris Melican. It was updated in 2008 by the year seven team (Jo Larkin, Jane Offley, Elizabeth Edwards and Stefanie Pearce). This is the 2009 updated version which incorporates functional grammar.

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

During this unit students investigate natural disasters. They will research how these disasters are caused and how they affect the natural environment and people. Students learn about the ways emergency services respond to these events. They reflect on their actions in response to these disasters.  Students will identify practical ways to reduce the impact of disasters on the community, animals and the environment.

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.

Alegebra 1 has been designed around representing 'think of a number activities in words, pictures and mathematical symbols

Boxes and dots are used to draw attention to the structure of a repeated arithmetic task and build meaning for algebraic symbols and conventions

On the way students explore examples of algebraic equivalence which is a core concept in algebra

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.