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Category Archives: Australian Curriculum
Scope and Sequences for Learning Areas – Australian Curriculum
Maths:
AustralianCurriculum-2
English:
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Science:
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History:
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Geography:
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Design and Technology: Materials
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Design and Technology: Digital Technologies:
AustralianCurriculum-8
Economics and Business:
AustralianCurriculum-9
Civics and Citizenship:
AustralianCurriculum-10
The Arts:
AustralianCurriculum-11
Health and Physical Education:
AustralianCurriculum-12
Italian:
AustralianCurriculum-13
iSHAMPOO – A Figurative Language Acronym
School Collaboration:
Read, share, enjoy the Book Week books with your class.
Keep your eye out for examples of figurative language:
As you find examples of these, write them as a quote on coloured pieces of paper.
EG.
I will set up a display in the library.
Let’s see how many we can collect.
Australian Curriculum Links
Onomatopoeia – Year 3 – introduce as ‘sound’ words prior to this – Many of this year’s picture books have great examples.
Alliteration – Year 1, Year 3
Similes – Year 5
Metaphors – Year 5 – Year 6 (Use)
Personification – Year 5
Sentence Structure Goals – Some resources
FANBOYS – a poster which might help remind students of words to help build compound sentences
Conjunctions
causal language – some examples of causal language
Subordinating conjunctions – a table of different subordinating conjunctions
Reconciliation Week Resources
Website with significant events ordered on a timeline. Famous paintings to focus discussion on Aboriginal lifestyles prior to European settlement.
http://www.changingworlds.sa.edu.au/?page_id=7
Teacher Resource to go with this:
Changing-Worlds-Teacher-Resource-FINAL
Reconciliation SA Education Packs – ideas for Early Years, Primary and Middle Years.
55_000_Years_and_Counting
Citizenship_Lets_Talk_Recognition (1)
Song: The Journey
The-Journey-Chord-Chart
http://www.reconciliation.org.au/nrw/category/sing-loud/
Refer to The Dreaming – A teacher reference resource with a DVD of Dreaming Stories from different parts of Australia, several from SA.
Splash/ ABC – Lots of different content appropriate for different year levels
Dreaming Stories:
http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/
Country/ Place
Teacher Resource:
Who-We-Are-Brave-Clan-Primary
Indigenous Language Map
http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/
Teaching Resources:
RECONCILIATION YR 3 SAME RIGHTS_final
There are also many resources on Scootle. Get there directly from the Learnlink homepage now!
Other resources:
The Burnt Stick, Anthony Hill – A story about a child removed from his mother. Very powerful. A copy is in our library.
http://tlpeace.org.au/stories/burntstick.htm
http://tlpeace.org.au/stories/burntstickclassroomactivities.htm
Idjhil, Helen Bell – A story about a child removed from his people/ country. We have a copy in our library.
Archie Roach – Took the Children Away – Song related to Stolen Generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLXzKYP1uCw&feature=youtu.be
The Rabbits, Shaun Tan – A metaphorical story related to colonisation.
Noel Pearson’s Eulogy at Gough Whitlam’s funeral would be a great literary challenge for year 6/7 students. Although lots of complex language is used, it is very powerful and gives a good summary of more recent Aboriginal history through one man’s perspective.
Mabo Website – Lots of resources – Middle Years
http://www.nfsa.gov.au/digitallearning/mabo/
Vincent Lingiari
http://splash.abc.net.au/digibook/-/c/618856/vincent-lingiari-the-leader
Aboriginal History in Pictures, a PowerPoint
The Curator’s Table – History Units related specifically to South Australia
The Curator’s table is another quality DECD Outreach Education digital program to be offered to South Australian schools. It is a web-based and iPad compatible resource, aligned with Years 6 and 9 Australian Curriculum: History and Geography (and SACE). It has the potential to support the teaching of the General capabilities, Ethical and Intercultural understanding as well as Literacy. Selected sources (documents/media/objects and personal letters) have been brought together to support teachers’ discussions with students about the significant contribution of German people in the settlement of South Australia. The first chapter centres around the treatment of German South Australians at the time of World War I. This resource is made possible through a partnership between DECD and History SA.
Check out the site at: http://bit.ly/curators
The Curator’s table will be the basis for a Lunchtime Bytes session – coming soon on Level 4.
The popular website and teacher resource Changing Worlds: A South Australian story can now be accessed via Scootle.
This is a web-based resource aligned with Years 4, 5 and 9 Australian Curriculum (AC): History and Arts. Selected artefacts, images and works of art from the South Australian Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia have been chosen to support teachers’ discussions with students about the colonisation/invasion of South Australia.
http://www.changing-worlds
Dr Kerrie Mackey-Smith
Outreach Education Project Officer,
Department for Education and Child Development
http://www.outreacheducation.sa.edu.au/programs/the-curators-table/
Pearson Places
You might like to check out the link on the sidebar titled ‘Pearson Places’. Lindsey thinks it will be a great resource.
http://www.pearsonplaces.com.au/
Unit Planners
Here are 2 different unit planners that you could use to document/plan units of work. Feel free to use/ adapt to suit your needs. If you have a different one you use and would like to share it, email it to me and I will upload to this site.
Different Types of Information Reports
| Genre | Social Purpose | Sample Curriculum Contexts |
| Descriptive Report | To give information about a species or class of things by describing physical attributes, behaviours, uses, etc. |
The platypus Diamonds China Sydney Harbour Bridge |
| Classifying Report | To organise and describe a field or topic into a class and subclass hierarchy |
Whales What bird is that? Environment Disasters |
| Compositional Reports | To organise and describe a field or topic according to its parts (a part or whole report) |
Systems of the human body The Rainforest |
| Historical Reports | To give information about the way things were in relation to a particular class of things |
The goldrush in Australia Roman cities |
| Comparative Reports | To identify the similarities and differences between two or more classes of things |
Stars and planets 3D shapes |
From Chapter 7, Teaching Language in Context, B. Derewianka and P. Jones, Oxford, 2012
Learning to observe and describe
R-2 Brief descriptions, Labelled diagrams
3-4 Descriptive Reports, Composition Reports (including site studies from mid to late primary)
5-6-7 Classification Reports, Comparative Reports, Historical Reports
A New Writing Resource for Teachers
3 Copies of The Writing Book written by Sheena Cameron and Louise Dempsey have been purchased and put into the Junior, Primary and Middle Years areas. Also check out the Sheena Cameron wiki which has lots of different shared resources for teachers.
http://sheenacameron.com/