Big Idea: Communicating
(Year 7)
How do writers think of what to write?
How do writers think of what to write?
How can I recount and reflect on a day that changed my life?
How can I construct a 3 minute digital story?
What causes a language to change over time?
Is English one language?
How are words, visuals, music and sound effects, and body language used to persuade and influence in a variety of multimodal texts?
How do Media Codes and Conventions construct meaning?
How does media representation affect audience, purpose, the form and the language used?
How have attitudes, values and perspectives about family and community in Australia changed over time?
What visual text techniques...
What literary devices do authors employ in their writing?
How do you convert a Shakespearean play for modern audiences?
What decisions need to be made in regards to props, costumes, set design, lighting, sound, actors...
What conventions do films use to convey meaning to viewers?
What is news?
Why is it important to learn about the Holocaust?
Does ‘never again’ really mean never again?
Department for Education Plink Units
The Department for Education South Australia has designed units aligned to the Australian Curriculum Learning Areas. These units include sequences of learning and assessment tasks
What is private / public information?
How do we stay safe online?
What is grooming?
How can physical activity improve my health?
How can a personal fitness...
What healthy food choices can I make to promote health and wellbeing?
Does food effect my wellbeing?
What are the physical, social, emotional and spiritual benefits to being outdoors?
Department for Education Plink Units
The Department for Education South Australia has designed units aligned to the Australian Curriculum Learning Areas. These units include sequences of learning and assessment tasks
What might people in the Australian colonies have wanted to achieve by joining together to form a nation?
What is justice?
What makes a diverse and cohesive society?
What are the freedoms and responsibilities of citizens in Australia’s democracy?
Where do laws come from?
What forms different perspectives about national identity?
In what way do you think the choices you make can affect the Australian economy as a whole?
What do you think might have to happen if there was no such thing as money?
How do you think your choices have affected businesses you have not bought from?
Why is it important for a business to select the correct structure prior to establishment?
What was considered valuable for trade by traditional landowners? How far did Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples travel for trade?
Australia is very involved in trading with other countries. How many items have you bought lately that have come from other countries? What sort of effect do you think these purchases...
Why can’t a manufacturing business force all retailers that sell its products to sell at the recommended retail price?
What sparked the Industrial Revolution?
How did the Industrial Revolution change where we live and the way...
Has the growth of globalisation and the increase of multinational corporations done more harm than good to the Australian economy?
Why is it important to understand how the share market works?
What would students like to see change in their school or community or world?
What is a problem worth solving for a social and economic outcome?
How can you develop an entrepreneurial mindset?
Why do businesses need to ensure they are aware of emerging business technologies?
How does capitalism affect people?
How can we work together to ethically share a precious resource - The Murray-Darling River Basin?
What factors contribute to water scarcity in Sudan?
What are some strategies that can be considered to provide enough clean water to the people of Sudan?
How does damming of the Mekong River affect the livelihoods of the people and the river's ecosystem?
What effect does the uneven distribution and accessibility of resources and services have on the lives of people?
What approaches can be used to improve the availability of resources and access to services?
How are we using nature-based tourism to protect our landforms?
How are we co-partnering with Aboriginal custodians to protect against degradation of landforms?
To what extent did the geography of Japan assist the Shoguns rise to power?
How can we best prevent bushfires?
What can we learn from traditional load management history and methods?
Australia has 26 million people. Where do I fit?
Why is plastic harmful to the environment?
What could people do to produce less trash?
Why do people flee their homes?
What are fundamental human rights?
What makes a country happy and how can it be measured?
What are the most significant factors that contribute to low wellbeing and what strategies...
What happened to Narrabeen Man?
What do you know?
What do you need to know?
How was Egypt during the reign of Tutankhamun different to our modern world not only its technology, living standards...
What are the legacies of the Ancient Rome?
How did chocolate transition from being a drink offered at ritual sacrifices to the sweet...
What was it like to live in Medieval times?
What can be learned from studying the historical effects of pandemics throughout history?
What was the significance of World War I for Australia and Australians?
How did Australians respond to war in 1914?
Why did they respond in these ways?
Why is it important to learn about the Holocaust?
Does ‘never again’ really mean never again?
What is popular culture?
What role did the rock 'n' roll music play as a popular culture in post-war Australia?
How important was migration to rebuilding post-war Australia?
How were Australia’s migration policies shaped by war in the 20th century?
Department for Education Plink Units
The Department for Education South Australia has designed units aligned to the Australian Curriculum Learning Areas. These units include sequences of learning and assessment tasks
How have biomes been altered?
How might we contribute to a better outcome for Australia's future by lessening environmental, social and economic impacts on our biomes?
Intercultural Understanding, Indigenous Perspectives, Diversity, Cooperation, People, Responsibility, Respect, Communication, Values, Culture/s
My Community (Belonging, Community, Neighbourhood, Environment, Culture/s, Interdependence, Responsibility, Social Change) – Indonesian
How do we increase students’ engagement with Asia through pedagogical innovation and on-line collaboration
Content Language Integrated Learning
Non-language specific educational websites and tools for online learning and teaching
How can teachers increase students’ memory retention times and maximise the amount of time on task for students of languages?
Are there some celebrations that are similar to the ones we have in Australia?
Do people associate specific foods with some festivals / celebrations? ...
How do different languages convey the same meaning in different ways?
How do they evolve differently ...
How can student engagement and time-on-task for languages education increase at St Michael’s College?
Department for Education Plink Units
The Department for Education South Australia has designed units aligned to the Australian Curriculum Learning Areas. These units include sequences of learning and assessment tasks
Concepts of measurement and geometry can be used to solve novel problems
The middle of a data set can be represented and interpreted in different ways.
Understanding of, and fluency in the use of, number facts and relationships, is a key to further understanding of mathematical concepts.
Concepts of measurement and geometry can be used to solve novel problems.
Patterns can be used to explain relationships between variables.
Outliers and sampling methods impact on measures of the middle of data.
When knowing the coordinates of two points, the distance between them, their midpoint, and the equation of the line can be calculated and used to solve problems.
Concepts of measurement and geometry can be used to solve novel problems.
Data can be displayed in a variety of ways and making sense of the middle of that data can allow us to make inferences.
The theory of quadratics allows us to solve maximisation/minimisation
problems.
Events that occur over time can be graphed and used to inform decisions.
Data can be grouped....
Concepts of measurement and geometry can be used to solve novel problems.
Situations can be modelled using linear equations, and systems of these equations can be used to inform decision making.
How can we transfer our understanding of number and algebraic concepts through Christmas inquiry tasks?
How can we transfer our understanding of measurement and geometric reasoning through solving Christmas inquiry tasks?
Department for Education Plink Units
The Department for Education South Australia has designed units aligned to the Australian Curriculum Learning Areas. These units include sequences of learning and assessment tasks
Audience: Teachers
Principles and checklists for the selection of appropriate and quality resources for Religious Education in a Catholic school.
Audience: Teachers
Catholic Education South Australia has created sample R.E. units for online learning. These have been designed with the new Crossways R.E. Curriculum.
Audience: Teachers
This quality website from Brisbane Catholic Education offers a range of resources for planning R.E. curriculum.
Audience: Families, Students and Teachers
This website offers a multitude of resources for Religious Education with a focus on social justice and Catholic Social Teaching.
Audience: Teachers
Curriculum and prayer resources that align with the new Crossways Curriculum 5 Knowledge Strands.
Audience: Teachers, Students, Families
This website offers information and resources to teach Judaism.
Audience: Students, Teachers
Bible Gateway has a variety of online Bible translations.
Catholic resources to support prayer and the seasons of the Church year.
Visible Thinking routines and explanations.
Media resources to help people understand the Catholic faith.
Copyright free Bible images.
Questions for 3 Worlds of the Text with Scripture.
This website provides commentaries for several Scriptural passages aligned to the Three Worlds of the Text method of interpreting Scripture.
This is an animation studio that produces short-form, fully animated Bible videos and other Bible resources.
This is the direct link to the 3 Worlds of the Text commentaries for use with Scripture on the Brisbane Catholic Education site.
Catholic Social Teaching resources.
Biblical Commentaries from MSC priest and scripture scholar Fr Michael Fallon.
The ABC has produced four podcasts on Religion and Spirituality: Compass, God Forbid, Religion and Ethics Report and Soul Search.
This is a collection of resources for use during Advent and Christmas.
Audience: Families, Classroom, Teacher
Audience: Teacher, Families, 3-6, 7-10
Range of commentaries on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew
Water is a resource that is both abundant and scarce.
The Earth is fragile and humans have a pivotal role to play in its future.
Waste contributes to the loss and vulnerability of Earth’s resources
Matter cycles through systems.
Energy gets work done and can transform from one form to another
Systems are the interrelationship of different parts and operate in various ways
Plate tectonics contribute to geological activity and continental movement
Scientific understanding, including models and theories, is contestable and is refined over time through a process of review by the scientific community
Heritable characteristics are passed down from generation to generation, through genes in DNA.
Department for Education Plink Units
The Department for Education South Australia has designed units aligned to the Australian Curriculum Learning Areas. These units include sequences of learning and assessment tasks
How can we interact online using safe practices?
How can we use project management techniques to work collaboratively on a project?
How do various systems use networks to connect, securely?
How can we design and build a computer game or app?
How can we design and build programs that manipulate robotics and microcontrollers?
How can we collect, sort and visualise data in meaningful ways to solve a problem?
How do computers represent data?
Nationwide every year thousands of students end up with injuries due to heavy backpacks. How might we redesign school backpacks for better support....
How might we redesign a public space to be more environmentally sustainable?
The Australian STEM Video Game Challenge, Global Cardboard Challenge, Minecraft Education Classroom Build Challenges, Commissioner’s Digital Challenge: Learn to Speak Robot and more...
Department for Education Plink Units
The Department for Education South Australia has designed units aligned to the Australian Curriculum Learning Areas. These units include sequences of learning and assessment tasks
How can dance provide insight into a social issue?
How do artists use their art to present alternative perspectives of constructed historical narratives?
How do musicians use technology to collaborate remotely?
How do artists’ context and culture impact on their art-making?
What are the histories of famous Christmas songs (such as “Jingle Bells”)?
What styles of music and lyrical content are appropriate for a Christmas song?
Department for Education Plink Units
The Department for Education South Australia has designed units aligned to the Australian Curriculum Learning Areas. These units include sequences of learning and assessment tasks
Information and advice
Building relationships: Starting high school
Building relationships: Breaking the ice
Building relationships: Where I live
Building relationships: My friend skills
Building relationships: My family, my team!
Building relationships: Making friends
Building relationships: Support networks
Goal Setting: My school learning and engagement
Goal Setting: My goal setting
Goal setting: Organisation and time management
Well-being and resilience: Introductory activities
Well-being and resilience: My values
Well-being and resilience: My boundaries and expectations
Well-being and resilience: Overcoming challenges
Well-being and resilience: Building resilience
Well-being and resilience: Optimism and gratitude
Select a subject to view curriculum ideas with links to related Learning Resources.
Additional ideas and resources will be added here as they are developed.
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