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KLA's
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Possible
Activities
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Science, SOSE, HPE English
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Unit: The Science Fiction Solar System
- (a)
a study of the solar system
and conditions on planets, modes of space travel by web quest.
(b)
a presentation on computer
- 'Reality Check - Let's suppose we would like to colonise another
planet...' (c) A
Mock Travel Brochure for visitors
to another planet - what would they find, what would they need to survive,
what could they do and see there? What would the flight time be? etc
(d)
a short science fiction
story of colonising a planet in the solar system - published and shared
among class.
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HPE, LOTE
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Unit: Portraits of Many in One Country
- (a) a computer presentation
of particular culture and identity - biography 'A day in the life of...'
with photo and text, voice recording and perhaps video. (b)
a recorded transcript of a radio interview which might have taken place if
the person was involved in such an event.
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Science, SOSE
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Unit: Disappearing Australians - (a) a
gallery of endangered animals for school display - published as separate
posters with photo and location, numbers left in the wild etc... (b)
use a concept map to depict the types of endangered species and the
threats to their survival.
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Maths, HPE, Science, English
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Unit: Freezing My Boots Off!
- (a) based on life in Antarctica - visit stations
by web, communicate by email with someone stationed there, study weather
conditions. (b) graph weather conditions on a
spreadsheet, compared to the local conditions to show contrast. (c)
Written report - how a particular animal adapts to the cold conditions.
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SOSE,
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Unit: A Segment in Time - (a)
a web site with students/groups developing individual pages on topics
related to the colonisation of Australia. (b)
with a paint program. design icons for navigating the web site (c)
a database of significant people in Australia's history which will appear
at the web site.
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HPE, Science, Technology
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Unit: A Garden of Recipes - (a) a
plan for a garden using drawing tools and descriptive text. (b)
a published book of detailed recipes (including photos) which may use the
items grown in the garden as ingredients and/or short class-produced video
cooking segments (as on TV). (c) a documentation
of the growth of the garden and individual plants by spreadsheet and
graph. (d) updated photos of the garden on
the school web site along with reports and spreadsheets/graphs.
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HPE, SOSE, Science, Technology
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Unit: A Virtual School Camp! - (a)
students take a collection of digital photos and/or videos while on school
camp. (b)
the school web site has pages added during showing life at camp for the
students back at school. (c) communicate
by email with classes back at school during the camp. (d)
multimedia presentation for school community on experiences at camp
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