Image source Learning intention: Students will have a greater understanding of the necessary goods and services provided in our community and their importance for survival. They will consider the requirements to be self-sufficient, in terms of food, fuel, shelter and medicine. Success criteria: Each student will prepare a “virtual survival kit” (report, poster or slideshow) [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Year 7'
Year 7 and 8 Skills 4 Living – Your survival kit
December 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Skills for Living, Year 7, Year 8
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Year 7 Skills for Living – Otway Fly Tree Top Walk
November 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Year 7
The spiral tower at the Otway Fly Tree Top Walk Learning Intention: To remember and recount learning from listening to the guide on the excursion on Tuesday. Success Criteria: You will produce a blog post of at least 100 words describing your visit to the Otway Fly Tree Top Walk. An excellent post will have [...]
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Year 7 and 8 Skills for Living – “A Winter’s Tale”
November 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Skills for Living, Year 7, Year 8
The Bollywood dancers – Year 7 girls Your task today is to write a blog post, including an image, about the production. You can find images of the production in the “student public folder > 2012 > Production photos”. You could write it as a newspaper review, including what you enjoyed about the performance and [...]
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Year 7 Threatened species project
October 16th, 2012 · 19 Comments · Biology, Year 7
Image source Learning Intention: Students will understand that all living organisms have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment. Success criteria: Students will complete a project, presented as a video, slideshow, poster or other multimedia artifact, that demonstrates their understanding of the structural, functional and behavioural characteristics of a chosen [...]
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Creating a dichotomous key
October 15th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Biology, Year 7
Learning Intention: You will understand the purpose of and how to create and use a dichotomous key. Success Criteria: You will create a key that identifies lollies from a mixed bag, using questions with only two possible answers. A dichotomous key is a tool used by scientists (especially taxonomists) to identify and name organisms. It [...]
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Year 7 Classification
October 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Biology, Year 7
Image source Learning Intention: You will understand the characteristics that are used to define living organisms and how they are classified into groups. Success Criteria: You will remember the six characteristics used to define life, the names of the Five Kingdoms of living organisms and create a poster that demonstrates your understanding of how vertebrates are [...]
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Year 7 Skills for Living
October 10th, 2012 · No Comments · ICT, Skills for Living, Year 7
Today we have several things going on due to production rehearsals and a special program with Quantum Victoria. The boys who have not been going to Dance classes and have been working on their ideal school project will be signing up to Minecraft today. You will each be given a sheet of instructions, a web [...]
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Year 7 Science – What is Life?
October 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Biology, Year 7
This amazing creature has been drawn based on fossils and named Hatzegopteryx – it is thought to be one of the largest flying animals of all time! It had hollow bones, which meant that it weighed only about one sixth of the weight of a giraffe. Learning Intention: To understand that living organisms share some [...]
Sheep’s Eye Dissection
September 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Biology, Year 7, Year 9
Last week we dissected a sheep’s eyeball to learn about the structure and function of the eye. Some of you have been working on a slideshow that demonstrates what you have learned about the eye. If you haven’t started on your slideshow you can follow this link to a Voicethread and comment on the photographs, “Sheep’s [...]
My Ideal School
September 7th, 2012 · No Comments · ICT, Skills for Living, Year 7, Year 8
The Guardian newspaper in United Kingdom is running a competition similar to the task we have been doing at school during term 3. They are calling for entries into “The School We’d Like” competition, with the judging criteria as follows: • Measurable benefits to your school community, please provide clear evidence where possible. • Innovation [...]
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