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Tools The Tools unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 8 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: Students will listen to short texts about tools and explore how tools work, what tools are, what they are used for, and how they developed over time. Following an investigation of simple tools used in the classroom, home and workplace, students design and construct their own tool. They develop skills in working with others, and write texts describing different tools. Students are introduced to the relationship between work and technology and develop an understanding of what work is and tools that are used for different jobs. |
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Traveling to School The Traveling to School unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 6 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: Traveling to school uses student experiences of travelling to and from school to develop their knowledge of road safety and skills in graphing and mapping. Students conduct surveys and develop pictographs to show how students travel to and from school. They develop a pictorial map of a route they are familiar with, identifying key features along the way. They consider rules and behaviours that make travelling safer. They develop and publish an electronic text to demonstrate road safety knowledge, skills and behaviours. |
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Who Are We? The Who Are We? unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 4 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: In Who are we? students work cooperatively in a team to develop and implement a class survey about selected characteristics of class members. They brainstorm ideas to develop suitable survey questions, collect survey data, and then use spreadsheets to organise and represent their findings. Survey results and inferences made are presented to the class using multimedia tools. |
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Zines The Zines unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 5 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: In Zines, students discuss, investigate and evaluate popular print and online media and publish their own work. Building on their interests, students develop skills in researching, gathering information, and writing and presenting different kinds of texts and images through the publishing process. Students use information and communications technology, including the Internet, for researching and for publishing their own work online or in ‘hard copy’ publications. |
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