Curriculum Overview
This interdisciplinary curriculum is designed to enable students to gain a deep level of understanding about a variety of different topics and build on skills, with a particular focus on World War I. Each unit has been designed to coincide with AusVels.
A range of different learning and teaching tools have been implemented across the different teaching domains to cater for a variety of different learning styles, to ensure that the individual needs of students are considered.
A range of different learning and teaching tools have been implemented across the different teaching domains to cater for a variety of different learning styles, to ensure that the individual needs of students are considered.
HealthStudents explore and investigate the conditions that soldiers faced as a result of living in the trenches. Students gain knowledge about a wide range of health issues and problems that many soldiers during World War 1 experienced. In addition, students also investigate the crucial role that the nurses played in providing treatment to soldiers as well as gaining an understanding of the psychological impact of warfare.
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EnglishStudents will look at a range of texts, investigating how the war was represented. Students will be looking at a series of letters, poems and editorial to critically examine the effects of the war.
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HistoryActively engage in chronological sequencing, analysing sources, writing their own accounts and developing a range of historical skills.
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Information TechnologyLearn about gaming, with a World War I theme.
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ScienceExplore ways in which the human body as a system responds to its external environment and the interdependencies between biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems. They are introduced to the notion of the atom as a system of protons, electrons and neutrons, and how this system can change through nuclear decay. They learn that matter can be rearranged through chemical change and that these changes play an important role in many systems. They are introduced to the concept of the conservation of matter and begin to develop a more sophisticated view of energy transfer
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MathsActively engage with information regarding World War I and recreate the battlefields using measurements.
Explore and apply "real world" mathematics. |
ExcursionStudents are to visit The Shrine of Remembrance in week 3.
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About Us
The members of our team (left to right):
Matthew Hayward, Matthew McLean, Krystal Caruana, Georgina Hobbs, Stephen Samuel.
Matthew Hayward, Matthew McLean, Krystal Caruana, Georgina Hobbs, Stephen Samuel.