How an idea changes – AT
This task was designed to address the aspects of the Year 8 achievement standards that relate to science as human endeavour. Students were asked to research a ‘big idea’ in science and create a presentation in which they explain how that idea has developed …
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Postcard from Angkor Wat - At
Students were asked to imagine visiting Angkor Wat in Cambodia and to design and write the two sides of a postcard detailing what they had seen and learned at the site. They were provided with a teacher-created template to record their thoughts and observations, …
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Cells – AT
Prior to the sample task, students engaged in investigations of cells and body systems, focusing specifically on cell structure, organelle function, cell specialisation, the digestive system, and reproduction in plants. This task was part of the final …
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Consumer dispute - ABOVE
Students wrote a script for a segment in a consumer information television show. They outlined a dispute between a consumer and a business, and they explained how and why the issue was resolved. This task was completed as a homework task.
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Consumer dispute - AT
Students wrote a script for a segment in a consumer information television show. They outlined a dispute between a consumer and a business, and they explained how and why the issue was resolved. This task was completed as a homework task.
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Rock formation – ABOVE
In a teaching and learning unit on the rock cycle, students engaged in several activities relating to the formation of sedimentary rocks, focusing on the processes of chemical and physical weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation and fossil …
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Rock formation – AT
In a teaching and learning unit on the rock cycle, students engaged in several activities relating to the formation of sedimentary rocks, focusing on the processes of chemical and physical weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation and fossil …
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Expansion – AT
Prior to the sample task, students explored states of matter focusing on how the particle model explains matter in its different states at a molecular level. They had completed various inquiries relating to the particle model including kinaesthetic activities …
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Source analysis: Vikings - AT
Students examined a teacher-curated collection of primary and secondary sources associated with the life and history of the Vikings. They were asked to select three sources from the collection and write an analysis of each, focusing upon its usefulness …
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Solar car experiment– ABOVE
As part of an integrated STEM project, students had previously designed and built a solar-powered toy car and they used this to investigate the transformation of light energy into electrical and kinetic energy. Students designed and performed an experiment …
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English - Year 8
Language Text structure and organisation Analyse how the text structures and language features of persuasive texts, including media texts, vary according to the medium and mode of communication (ACELA1540) Understand how coherence is created in complex …
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Scripted: Pyramus and Thisbe - BELOW
Students were engaged in a unit of work on Elizabethan drama using Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the key text for a performance-based assessment. They studied style and the acting conventions of the play’s original context. They also learned …
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Media Arts - Years 7 and 8
Exploring ideas and improvising with ways to represent ideas Experiment with the organisation of ideas to structure stories through media conventions and genres to create points of view in images, sounds and text (ACAMAM066) Manipulating and applying …
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Literacy - Level 5 (Years 7 and 8)
Typically, by the end of Year 8, students: Navigate, read and view learning area texts navigate, read and view a variety of challenging subject-specific texts with a wide range of graphic representations Listen and respond to learning area texts listen …
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Digital Technologies - Years 7 and 8
Processes and Production Skills Plan, create and communicate ideas and information, including collaboratively online, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols (ACTDIP022) Investigate how digital systems represent text, image and audio …
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Design and Technologies - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 Knowledge and understanding Content descriptions with elaborations: Investigate the ways in which products, services and environments evolve locally, regionally and globally and how competing factors including social, ethical, sustainability …
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Digital Technologies - Above satisfactory - Years 7 and 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can distinguish between different types of networks and defined purposes (WS5). The student explains how text, image and audio data can be represented, secured and presented in digital systems (WS2, …
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Digital Technologies - Satisfactory - Years 7 and 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can distinguish between different types of networks and defined purposes (WS5). The student explains how text, image and audio data can be represented, secured and presented in digital systems (WS2, …
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Digital Technologies - Below satisfactory - Years 7 and 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can distinguish between different types of networks and defined purposes (WS5). The student explains how text, image and audio data can be represented, secured and presented in digital systems (WS2, …
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Design and Technologies - Years 7 and 8
Year 7 and 8 Design and technologies knowledge and understanding Content descriptions with elaborations Investigate the ways in which products, services and environments evolve locally, regionally and globally and how competing factors including social, …
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