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Thinking skills

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Foreword Thinking skills is a series of three books, designed to provide opportunities for students to practise the six thinking skills of Bloom’s revised taxonomy—remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating—across the learning areas of English, Maths, Science, SOSE, PE/Health and Values and The Arts. The skills are ranked in order from the three fundamental, lower order skills to the three more advanced, higher order skills. Titles in this series are: Thinking skills (6–8) Thinking skills (8–10) Thinking skills (11+)

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Thinking challenges – 1 The need for shelter and Water bodies ......................... 16

Analysing .................................................................. 49 Student self-evaluation ................................................. 50 Teacher introduction .................................................... 51 On the river bank .................................................... 52–53 Pet graph ................................................................. 54–55 Floating paper clip .................................................. 56–57 Hillside harbour ...................................................... 58–59 Feel the beat ............................................................ 60–61 Jug art ...................................................................... 62–63

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Teachers notes ....................................................... iv – viii Remembering ............................................................. 1 Student self-evaluation ................................................... 2 Teacher introduction ...................................................... 3 Picture story ................................................................ 4–5 It’s about time ............................................................. 6–7 Living and non-living ................................................. 8–9 Mud map ................................................................. 10–11 Staying safe ............................................................. 12–13 Musical memory ..................................................... 14–15

Thinking challenges – 4 Fascinating fairytales and Just for fun! ....................... 64

.................................................................. 65 © R. I . C.PubEvaluating l i cat i ons Student self-evaluation ................................................. 66 Teacher •f orr evi ew pur p ointroduction ses.................................................... onl y• 67 A grim limerick ....................................................... 68–69

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Thinking challenges – 2 Food and Let’s celebrate! .............................................. 32

How many pets? ...................................................... 70–71 Pet needs ................................................................. 72–73 School map ............................................................. 74–75 Plan a routine ......................................................... 76–77 Listen to the music .................................................. 78–79

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Understanding .......................................................... 17 Student self-evaluation ................................................. 18 Teacher introduction ..................................................... 19 Unﬁnished poem .................................................... 20–21 Money ...................................................................... 22–23 The raisin dance ..................................................... 24–25 My family ................................................................ 26–27 Healthy habits ......................................................... 28–29 No talking! .............................................................. 30–31

Thinking challenges – 5 Colours and Farms ....................................................... 80

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Applying ..................................................................... 33 Student self-evaluation ................................................. 34 Teacher introduction .................................................... 35 Vocal volume ........................................................... 36–37 Colour by numbers ................................................. 38–39 Ring the bell! .......................................................... 40–41 Recycle, reduce, reuse ............................................. 42–43 Problem solving ....................................................... 44–45 Show time! .............................................................. 46–47 Thinking challenges – 3 Solar system and Dinosaurs ........................................ 48

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Creating ...................................................................... 81 Student self-evaluation ................................................. 82 Teacher introduction .................................................... 83 Story salad ............................................................... 84–85 Number crossword .................................................. 86–87 Fashion designer ..................................................... 88–89 Party time ................................................................ 90–91 Basic movement dance ........................................... 92–93 Recycled art ............................................................. 94–95 Thinking challenges – 6 Water and Sound .......................................................... 96

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Teachers notes The purpose of this book is to provide a practical resource of learning activities, each aimed at a speciﬁc thinking skill as described in Bloom’s revised taxonomy. Students require these skills to understand and process a vast amount of information from a range of media and to consider its relevance and validity. The range of tasks provided will encourage and assist students to become higher level thinkers. A brief explanation of Bloom’s revised taxonomy

n the 1950s, Benjamin Bloom developed the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives as a means of expressing, qualitatively, different kinds of thinking. It continues to be one of the most widely applied models of formal analysis of the nature of thinking and has been adapted for use in school curriculum planning. Bloom’s original taxonomy provided a means of organising thinking skills into six levels ranging from the most basic to the more complex. These terms were revised in the 1990s by Lorin Anderson, a former student of Bloom, resulting in some signiﬁcant improvements to the existing model.

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Knowledge

Remembering

Comprehension

Understanding

Application

Applying

Analysis

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Synthesis

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Creating

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The names of the six major categories were changed to verb forms as thinking is an active process. Remembering replaced knowledge as the ﬁrst level of thinking as knowledge is an outcome rather than a type of thinking. In keeping with the nature of thinking described for each level, comprehension and synthesis were renamed understanding and creating, respectively. Where Bloom’s original taxonomy was aimed at the early years of schooling, Anderson’s revised taxonomy is more universal and applicable at all levels of study. The six levels of thinking are ranked from the three lower order skills of remembering, understanding and applying to the higher order skills of analysing, evaluating and creating. At each level of the taxonomy, there are subcategories which describe the emphasis of each skill.

remembering

recognising, recalling, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, locating, naming, ﬁnding

understanding

interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarising, inferring, comparing, explaining

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analysing

evaluating creating

executing, implementing, using, carrying out

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checking, hypothesising, experimenting, judging, testing, detecting, monitoring

generating, planning, producing, designing, constructing, inventing, devising, making

Why teach thinking skills?

It is widely acknowledged that if students are to become better thinkers, they must be taught explicitly how to think. Planning for this explicit teaching is essential. Teaching methods must promote the transfer of learning beyond one context and into others. To develop better thinking skills, students require an environment which demonstrates an open-minded attitude to the nature of knowledge and thinking, providing open-ended tasks with multiple

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solutions. Talking about thinking, using all strategies for questioning, should be actively encouraged and form a part of all learning situations. Focusing on thinking skills supports active cognitive processing, helping students to investigate beyond the information provided and to assess each situation before reaching their own conclusions.

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Teachers notes Questioning A key element in the development of thinking skills is questioning. To engage students in thought at each level, questions need to be used purposefully, directing students to achieve deﬁned goals. Open-ended questioning allows students to demonstrate their ability in each thinking skill. Questions at the lower levels of the taxonomy encourage …

Questions at the higher levels of the taxonomy encourage …

recalling information

determining different parts of any object, text or concept and exploring them

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explaining ideas or concepts

justifying opinions, decisions and courses of action

using knowledge in different situations

developing new ideas or models based on previous knowledge

Metacognition

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Each student activity page includes a number of questions, relevant to the activity, for the students to consider. By reﬂecting on each, they will have the opportunity to develop their metacognitive thought processes.

In order to improve each thinking skill and to establish meaning from information, students need to develop their own thought processes. Metacognitive thought enables an individual to recognise preferred learning strategies and to consciously direct his/her learning. Metacognition, which means to ‘think about thinking’, was ﬁrst described as a learning concept in 1976 by John Flavell. It comprises three parts: • Metamemory – an awareness of different memory strategies, a knowledge of which strategy is best suited for a task and how it may be used most effectively. Students develop a plan for learning which occurs before learning.

• Metacomprehension – the ability to check understanding of information, to identify gaps in understanding and to rectify identiﬁed failures. Students monitor and adjust the plan which occurs during learning.

• Self-regulation – the ability to modify learning processes in response to perceived feedback. Students evaluate the plan after the learning process has taken place.

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There are a number of recognised analyses of the nature of thinking, all aiming to develop thinking to a qualitatively higher level; for example: Six thinking hats – Edward de Bono Instrumental enrichment – Reuven Feuersten Philosophy for children – Matthew Lipman Multiple intelligences – Howard Gardner Thinkers keys – Tony Ryan Cognitive and cooperative thinking strategies – Eric Frangenheim Cooperative learning structures which develop thinking skills – Spencer Kagan.

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Teachers notes Graphic organisers What is a graphic organiser? A graphic organiser is a means of presenting information pictorially. Blank areas are provided for students to record ideas or information about a given topic. There are a number of graphic organiser styles, each of which is suited for a particular purpose. The basic design of any organiser may be adapted to meet the requirements of a speciﬁc task and level of ability.

presenting data

Examples concept map, spider map, word map, character map, mind map, story map, story star, concept web summary chart, matrix, T-chart, Y-chart, 5W chart, KWL chart, senses chart, step chart, comparison/contrast chart, paragraph organiser frame, structured overview, note making framework, issues circle, futures wheel bar graph, pictograph, line graph, pie graph, labelled diagram, array

determining sequences

word chain, sequence chain, word wheel, cycle wheel, ladder, historical time line, continuum, ﬂow chart, cartoon and picture strip, action plan, rebus

evaluating determining relationships

PMI chart, plus/minus T-chart, agreement scales, evaluation scales (plus, minus, interesting) ﬁshbone map, concentric circle chart, semantic grid, decision tree, network tree, human interaction outline

categorising and classifying

plot, matrix, pyramid, tree, categories, Venn diagram, Carroll diagram, arrow diagram, tree diagram

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Why use graphic organisers? • Graphic organisers show the key facts, ideas or results of a given situation or topic. • They help to clarify thoughts and to determine how to proceed. • The information illustrated is immediately obvious without the need for reading and analysing lengthy text. • Students learn that presenting information in this way is an important means of communicating ideas and information. • It demonstrates understanding of their own research and similar representations in the media worldwide.

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Using a graphic organiser To gain conﬁdence in completing and studying graphic organisers, students need to be: • presented with many tasks which require pictorial representation • guided in their choice of style(s) and in the conventions of that style, so they can develop effective representations related to a given purpose and audience. Teachers need to discuss and model each style of organiser as it is introduced, explaining how it works for a given purpose and how it can be adapted if required.

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Teachers notes Examples of graphic organisers

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Teachers notes The six thinking skills of Bloom’s revised taxonomy have been used: • remembering • understanding • applying • analysing • evaluating Each section has a cover page, a student self-evaluation page and a teacher introduction page. For each skill, an activity from each key learning area has been provided. • English • Mathematics • The Arts • Science • Society and Environment • Physical Education, Health and Values

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Each activity is presented over two pages; a student page and a teachers page. At the end of each section, two theme-based, extension thinking challenges are provided. The ﬁnal page of the book includes references for further research.

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The student cover page allows students to collate worksheets dealing with a particular thinking skill.

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Teachers notes Teacher introduction page Section summary chart,, provides page numbers, title of student page, key learning area and task indicators. Definition,, provides full definition of thinking skill. Appropriate verbs,, offers suggestions for command verbs to use to help students to focus on the specific skill.

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Appropriate graphic organisers,, offers suggestions for graphic organisers to use to assist students focus their thinking within each skill.

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Appropriate questions,, offers suggestions for questions to ask to help students practise the speciﬁc skill.

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The skill focus. Deﬁnition, nition gives an abridged version of the skill deﬁnition provided on the teacher information page.

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Indicators explains what the students are Indicators, expected to achieve in completing the activity. information provides any relevant Teacher information, information required for the completion of the student page. Additional activities to develop this skill, related to the topic of the student page yet focusing on the speciﬁc skill. Curriculum links, provides the subject, strand and speciﬁc links for each state. Answers, where required.

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The title of the page The task, explains what the students will do. The activity, the range of which varies throughout the book, across the six learning areas. Thinking more about thinking, to help students develop their metacognitive thought processes before, during and after the activity.

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Thinking challenges

Topic focus, provides the theme for the challenge. Skill-based activities, provides a range of tasks covering the six levels of thinking.

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REMEMBERING: STUDENT SELF-EVALUATION Use the sections below to record thoughts or information about the worksheets or answers to the metacognitive questions on each student page. Name Pages 4–5

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It’s about time!

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Staying safe

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Musical memory

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Picture story

English

• Illustrates key parts of a story.

• Recalls how to tell the time to the half hour on analog clocks. Mathematics • Recalls how to tell the time on digital clocks. • Colours and cuts out pictures of living and nonliving things. Science • Sorts and glues pictures under correct headings. • Recognises landmarks on a familiar journey. Society and Environment • Draws a route between two places using familiar landmarks as reference points.

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It’s about time!

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Living and non-living

10–11

Mud map

12–13

Staying safe

PE/Health/Values

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The Arts

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• Recalls road safety signs.

• Completes information about a previously-learnt song.

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Deﬁnition: The skill of remembering demonstrates the student’s ability to recall information, ideas, data or principles previously learnt. Remembering is often used to obtain factual information, but it may also be an approximation. Remembering requires the students to locate knowledge within a context of the material being presented at the time and to revue the relevant information from their short- or long-term memory. Some appropriate verbs: deﬁne, identify, describe, list, name, recall, locate, recognise, record, relate, write, label, repeat, underline, state

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Some appropriate graphic organisers: KWL chart, Cycle graph, Chains, Line graphs, T-chart, Compare or contrast chart, Concept chart, Venn diagram, Fish bone, Target, Pie chart, Categories, Tree, Pyramid, Matrix Some suitable questions: What happened after?, How many?, When?, Who was it that?, Can you name?, Who spoke to?, Which is true or false?

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REMEMBERING The skill of remembering demonstrates the student’s ability to recall information, ideas, data or principles which he/she has previously learnt. INDICATOR: • Illustrates key parts of a story.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Discuss a familiar story with the whole class. • Explain the beginning, middle and end of this and other narrative texts. • Note: Pictures do not need to be complicated but they must show deﬁnite scenes from the story.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • With adult assistance, make a collection of pictures from magazines and choose three to weave a story around. • With adult assistance, choose a picture of an interesting looking person or creature and write a detailed description. Swap description with another student, draw a picture from his/her description and compare with the original. • Make a display of characters and scenes from a wellknown traditional tale.

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REMEMBERING The skill of remembering demonstrates the student’s ability to recall information, ideas, data or principles previously learnt. INDICATORS: • Recalls how to tell the time to the half hour on analog clocks. • Recalls how to tell the time on digital clocks.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • For Question 4, encourage the students to write digital times to the minute if they are able to; e.g. ‘8.05’, ‘7.43’. They can read them aloud when discussing answers with the class.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Play memory games using analog and digital clock times. • List important times in the school day; e.g. ‘1.30 is library time’. • Have students show times on real or toy clock faces. • Make a class dictionary of time words the students know; e.g. ‘hour’, ‘minute’, ‘second’. • Have the students write a description in which they recall how long they took to do different daily tasks.

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REMEMBERING The skill of remembering demonstrates the student’s ability to recall information, ideas, data or principles previously learnt. INDICATORS: • Colours and cuts out pictures of living and non-living things. • Sorts and glues pictures under correct headings.

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ANSWERS: 1. Teacher check 2. Students should have glued the following pictures under the heading ‘Living’: cat, bee, ﬂower, grasshopper, ﬁsh, tree, lizard, boy/girl. Students should have glued the following pictures under the heading ‘Non-living’: crayons, garage, mp3 player, rock, truck, bag, book, ladder.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Discuss what makes an object living or non-living. Write the list of requirements for each category on the board. • Living things (a) need air and water, (b) can grow in size, (c) can change shape and size, (d) can produce baby animals or baby plants, (e) can move by themselves, (f) can eat food or make food. • Non-living things (a) do not need air or water, (b) usually remain the same size and shape, (c) cannot produce a baby, (d) cannot move by themselves, and (e) do not eat food or make their own food. • Students will need a separate sheet of paper folded into two columns with the words ‘Living’ and ‘Non-living’ written above the sections. Students will place, then glue, the pictures under the appropriate sections on their paper.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Write deﬁnitions to match some pictures; for example ‘A cat is a living thing because it has to breathe, it drinks water, it gets bigger as it grows, it can move, it can have kittens when it grows up and it eats cat food’. • Recall the names of other living and non-living things which can be drawn or written in each column. • Retell or rewrite in your own words what makes a living or non-living thing. • Identify and match the babies of living things to the parents/adults.

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CURRICULUM LINKS: Science LTS1.3, INVS1.7 SCSC0201 I 2.2, I 2.3, LL 2 1.5 L&L 1.1, 1.2

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Task You will sort pictures of objects into living and non-living using the information you remember about what makes a living thing.

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THINKING MORE ABOUT THINKING When you looked at each picture, how did you decide which group to put it in? Did you think of what makes a living or non-living thing? How did you remember all the information? R.I.C. Publications® • www.ricgroup.com.au

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REMEMBERING The skill of remembering demonstrates the student’s ability to recall information, ideas, data or principles previously learnt. INDICATORS: • Recognises landmarks on a familiar journey. • Draws a route between two places using familiar landmarks as reference points.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Work through an example with the class, using a route known to all, within the school grounds. • Revise directional and positional language

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Make a display showing a local area with familiar landmarks. Include cards which detail routes between places shown. • Write a story about a family whose car has broken down in an unknown area and the phone call they have with the towing company, describing where they are. • Play ‘Where am?’, where students describe a route from the classroom to another place in the school grounds.

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REMEMBERING The skill of remembering demonstrates the student’s ability to recall information, ideas, data or principles previously learnt. INDICATOR: Recalls road safety rules and signs.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Use ﬂashcards of common road safety signs and ask the students to say which they recognise and know the meaning of. • Learn songs with a road safety theme. • Design road safety posters using the rules the students remember.

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REMEMBERING The skill of remembering demonstrates the student’s ability to recall information, ideas, data or principles previously learnt. INDICATOR: • Completes information about a known song.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Recall speciﬁc musical information about a previously learnt song, such as lyrics, tempo, dynamics etc. • Students perform their songs individually, in pairs or in small groups. • Students complete the words of a chorus or verse of a speciﬁc song. • In pairs or fours, students recall a previously learnt song with half of the students singing the words and the other half doing the actions or movements.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Encourage students to use ‘musical’ language when giving reasons for liking or disliking a song; for example, ‘The tune was too high’, ‘The tempo was too fast or slow in places’, ‘The verse was boring but the chorus was fun!’ • Students may wish to compare their opinions about different (or the same) songs. This may encourage students to remember more aspects of previously learnt songs.

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The need for shelters

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List as many different types of shelters as you can for people and animals. Match the names of each animal to its shelter. Write a list of reasons why people need shelters. Draw and label pictures of shelters built for a speciﬁc climate or purpose.

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UNDERSTANDING The skill of understanding involves explaining what has been learnt in a different way to show the level of comprehension. INDICATOR: • Writes rhyming words to complete a poem.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Before allowing students to complete the poem, revise rhyming words by orally completing examples with the class or writing examples on the board. ANSWERS: I see a tree A big green tree The tree shades me And also the bee! I see a tree A tall strong tree The tree shelters me In my house by the sea!

I see a tree A healthy, leafy tree The tree breathes with me As I play near the sea! I see a tree A thick bumpy tree The tree reads with me In my house by the sea!

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • List pairs of words which rhyme but have very different spelling. • Identify rhyming words during a shared book session. • Complete simple poems on a given topic using rhyming words. • Locate words which rhyme in a story or information text. • Practise oral retelling of favourite poems with different rhyming words for a humorous result.

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UNDERSTANDING The skill of understanding involves explaining what has been learnt in a different way to show the level of comprehension. INDICATORS: • Appreciates relative value of each coin. • Considers best choice of coins for payment.

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ANSWERS: 1. (a) 5c (b) 10c (c) 20c (d) 50c (e) $1 (f) $2 2. (a)$2, 50c, 20c, 5c – 4 coins (b) 50c, 20c, 10c, 5c – 4 coins (c) $1, 20c, 10c – 3 coins (d) $2, $2, 50c, 10c, 5c – 5 coins (e) $1, 20c, 5c – 3 coins (f) 50c, 20c, 20c, 5c – 4 coins

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Create a class shop with shopping list cards for students to use. Students take turns at playing check-out operator. • In groups, students create money stories for students to solve. Keep as a resource. • Role-play a restaurant scene where there is a problem with the payment of the bill.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Look at the six coins and discuss the relative value of each; e.g. How many 5c coins are there in 10c, 20c, 50c? • Give students the opportunity to show different amounts using any number of coins.

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UNDERSTANDING The skill of understanding involves explaining what has been learnt in a different way to show the level of comprehension. INDICATOR: Observes and records how raisins can move in liquid.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Before the lesson, organise the students into small groups and seat them around a table. Each group will need a large glass or clear plastic container, a plastic jug, water, vinegar, bicarbonate of soda, raisins and food colouring (optional). Identify the vinegar, bicarbonate of soda and the raisins for the students and discuss where and how they might be eaten or used. • Have a member of each group or an adult helper place enough bicarbonate of soda in the container to cover the bottom so that it is about two centimetres deep. Water can then be poured into the container until it is about two-thirds full. A few drops of food colouring can be added to make the experiment look more ‘magical’. Next, carefully pour in one cup of vinegar, then add a few raisins. The class should observe what happens, then discuss before completing the worksheet. Refer to the information below to explain to the students. • When bicarbonate of soda and vinegar are combined, a chemical reaction occurs, producing bubbles of carbon dioxide. As the raisins are added, they will slowly sink to the bottom of the container. This is because raisins are denser than water. As the bubbles of carbon dioxide stick to the raisins, the raisins are lifted upwards. When the bubbles burst, the raisins fall back down. This process will continue over and over again as long the carbon dioxide bubbles are being produced.

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UNDERSTANDING The skill of understanding involves explaining what has been learnt in a different way to show the level of comprehension. INDICATOR: Completes a family tree showing family members.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Describe the importance of each family member to the family. • On a table (with the names of family members as headings for the columns), summarise the roles and responsibilities of each person. • Explain the uniqueness of each family member in terms of appearance, hobbies, likes and dislikes. • In your own words explain what a family is, then write a deﬁnition based on your explanation.

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UNDERSTANDING The skill of understanding involves explaining what has been learnt in a different way to show the level of comprehension. INDICATORS: • Suggests two healthy habits. • Accurately illustrates each habit.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Design posters for around the school to remind others about healthy habits. • Write a poem about how good healthy habits can make you feel. • Make up a fun running game for the class to enjoy.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Discuss healthy and unhealthy habits and the visual images each type generates. • Reinforce that to be successful in developing a healthy lifestyle, healthy options should be realistic and practical and easily incorporated in normal family routines.

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UNDERSTANDING The skill of understanding involves explaining what has been learnt in a different way to show the level of comprehension. INDICATOR: Explains some ways of communicating nonverbally.

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Food • Write a procedure for making a favourite snack. Remembering • Write or draw some foods from each of the food groups.

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• Give reasons why we should eat junk food only occasionally. • Draw a cartoon strip to summarise a story you have heard or read about food.

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• Read about a country. Describe some of the traditional foods people from this country eat. • Label a diagram that shows how we digest food.

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• Chooses appropriate material for constructing a model house with working electric bell. Science • Makes an electric bell circuit. • Suggests ways in which he/she could help to recycle, reduce or reuse rubbish based on Society and Environment information gained from a discussion. PE/Health/Values

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DEFINITION: The skill of applying demonstrates a student’s ability to USE previously learnt material in a new or familiar situation. It aims to ﬁnd out whether a student is able to explain ideas or concepts. Students are able to apply information if they can select, transfer or use data and principles to complete or solve a problem or task with minimal help from the teacher. SOME APPROPRIATE VERBS AND PHRASES: implement, carry out, use, ask questions, predict outcomes, deﬁne the problem, plan a research, improve ideas, anticipate the consequences, test conclusions, demonstrate, generalise, illustrate, interpret, relate, compute, solve, apply, construct, execute, show etc.

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SOME APPROPRIATE GRAPHIC ORGANISERS: Flow chart, T-chart, Compare or contrast chart, Compare and contrast chart, Venn diagram, Spider map, Fishbone, Cloud/Cluster, Tree, Flow chart etc. SOME SUITABLE QUESTIONS: Can you give another example of … ?, Could this have happened when … ?, Which things would you change if … ?, Can you make up a set of questions from the information given?, How would you explain … ?, Does everyone act in the same way … ? etc.

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APPLYING The skill of applying demonstrates a student’s ability to USE previously learnt material in a new or familiar situation. INDICATOR: Demonstrates appropriate use of voice volume in a playscript.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Before commencing the worksheet, hold a class discussion about how people vary their voice volume from soft, to normal and loud in their everyday speech. For example, soft speech might be used to tell a secret or avoid disturbing somebody or it could indicate fear. Normal speech might be used during a friendly conversation or to greet somebody. Loud speech might be used to gain someone’s attention or could indicate surprise, happiness or anger. Have the students demonstrate some of these examples. • After the discussion, divide the students into groups of three and read through the worksheet as a class. The groups can then discuss the content of the scripts and write how each line will be delivered, before they begin rehearsing. Remind them that they must have a clear reason for the volume chosen for each line. Allow time for the students to rehearse their scripts, encouraging them to memorise their lines if possible. • After the groups have performed their scripts for the class, the students can complete Question 2 individually, writing the number of each line they chose and a reason for the volume their group used.

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APPLYING The skill of applying demonstrates a student’s ability to USE previously learnt material in a new or familiar situation. INDICATORS: • Completes answers to addition and subtractions. • Uses answers and a code to colour a picture.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Students should become aware of their ability to do mental calculations or having to use concrete material such as counters or ﬁngers to complete addition and subtractions. • Some discussion may occur in regard to the strategies students use to complete answers mentally, such as counting on, rounding up or down etc.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Use the answers to additions and subtractions and codes to complete sentences about a particular topic. • Find patterns in a sequence of addition and subtraction, such as in a chart. • Demonstrate for other students how solutions to complex additions and subtractions were achieved. • Use additions to ﬁnd perimeters of rectangular shapes. • Use additions and subtractions to ﬁnd the solutions to word problems.

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APPLYING The skill of applying demonstrates a student’s ability to USE previously learnt material in a new or familiar situation. INDICATORS: • Chooses appropriate material for constructing a model house. • Evaluates the stability of the house.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • The skill of applying demonstrates a student’s ability to USE previously learnt material in a new or familiar situation. • Prior to the lesson, make a collection of recyclable resources. • Tell the story of the ‘Three little pigs’. Discuss the problems of the straw and stick houses. Why was the wolf able to blow them down? Why was he unable to blow down the brick house? What important features did the brick house have that the others did not? (foundations, cement) • Discuss the materials available. How could they be used to make a stable, four-roomed, two-storey model house? • What features are required in the house? Some are essential; e.g. windows, doors, stairs. Some are optional; e.g. ﬁres, chimneys. • What materials will be used to attach the rooms and storeys? How much will be required? Is the position of attaching material important? Remind students that the triangular conﬁguration is the most stable. • Considering the resources available, students design a four-roomed, two-storey house. Allow them to make rough designs before drawing on their worksheet. • When making the list of materials, instruct students to record the purpose of each item. • Students construct their houses from the designs. • As a class, students must determine a fair test, to be used on all houses, to determine their stability. From this test, students can evaluate the stability of their own construction and suggest ways to improve it.

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APPLYING The skill of applying demonstrates a student’s ability to USE previously learnt material in a new or familiar situation. INDICATOR: Suggests ways in which he/she could help to recycle, reduce or reuse rubbish, based on information gained from a discussion.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Before commencing the worksheet, hold a class discussion on recycling, reducing and reusing waste. Deﬁne and explain each term. For example: Recycling turns a waste product into the same product or something different so it can be used again. Recyclable products include glass, paper, some plastic and aluminium. Reducing the amount of waste means making careful choices each day; for example, refusing plastic shopping bags and junk mail, composting kitchen scraps or selecting products which have little or no packaging. Reusing means using the same item many times instead of disposing of it after one use; for example, using empty jars for leftover food, holding a garage sale, reﬁlling bottles or reusing boxes. • The students should apply the information they gained from the discussion to their everyday lives to help them answer Question 1. The banner designs for Question 2 could be re-created on larger pieces of card or paper and displayed in the classroom or around the school.

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APPLYING The skill of applying demonstrates a student’s ability to USE previously learnt material in a new or familiar situation. INDICATORS: • Reads problems and writes the best way to solve them.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Students take past experiences into consideration when making simple decisions or choices between two things. • Students demonstrate how they have used knowledge gained from listening to others, and from own previous experiences, to solve problems or conﬂicts in new situations. • Students write scenarios, using their own past experiences, for other students to ﬁnd solutions. • Students dramatise problem situations which they may have experienced and show the solutions they chose. • Students may use their own experiences to offer solutions to other students who require assistance in solving problems.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Discuss the scenarios and identify the problems. • Students may share their solutions to the problems after completing the worksheet and relate similar situations they have experienced or seen and what happened. They may also indicate whether they chose the wrong solution and learnt from their mistakes.

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APPLYING The skill of applying demonstrates a student’s ability to USE previously learnt material in a new or familiar situation. INDICATORS: • Decides how each character in a story should be portrayed. • Works in a small group to achieve a common goal.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Work through an example with the whole class, using a well-known story. • Demonstrate examples of how different moods and characteristics are portrayed. Allow students to express a range of these examples. • Reinforce the need for all characters to address the audience at all times and to speak clearly so they can be heard.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Write and dramatise a short story to perform to the rest of the class. Use a familiar situation; e.g. family picnic on the beach, shopping at the supermarket, a journey into the city. • From a number of well-known fairy stories, classify the different characters who have similar moods and characteristics. Display the information on an illustrated chart. • Choose a main character from a favourite story. Make a large model and dress it appropriately, using a range of materials.

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Solar system

Remembering • Make a labelled display showing the sun and all the planets. • Use an exercise ball as the sun and a table tennis ball as the earth to Understanding explain how the planet moves around the sun while spinning on its own axis. • Make a ‘solar system’ model. Ensure the planets are in position order Applying and of relative size. Use the model to explain how all the planets travel around the sun.

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• Write a plan for a spaceship commander, explaining where you want him/her to travel on the next journey into space.

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Understanding • Draw a time line to show why no person has ever seen a dinosaur.

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On the riverbank ......................................................................................Pages 52–53 Pet graph ...................................................................................................Pages 54–55 Floating paperclip ..................................................................................Pages 56–57 Hillside Harbour ......................................................................................Pages 58–59 Feel the beat .............................................................................................Pages 60–61 Jug art ........................................................................................................Pages 62–63

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ANALYSING: STUDENT SELF-EVALUATION Use the sections below to record thoughts or information about the worksheets or answers to the metacognitive questions on each student page. Name Pages 52–53

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Title On the riverbank

Key learning areas English

Thinking activity • Matches adjectives describing the animals in the boat and the crocodile. • Appreciates the role of the crocodile.

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• Tests and analyses information about his/her heart rate. • Looks at a picture of a Toby jug.

• Answers questions about a Toby jug.

DEFINITION: The skill of analysing involves exploring the assumptions, ideas or structure inherent in a text or other piece of information. This is done by breaking the information into sections or elements – often visually, through a graphic organiser. Analysing can also help students compare the features of two or more texts.

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SOME SUITABLE QUESTIONS: What are the differences?, Which events could not have happened?, How is this similar to?, What was the idea of … ?, Why did … changes occur?, What was the problem with … ? What might have been the ending if … ?, What other possible solutions do you see?, Can you explain what must have happened when … ?, What was the turning point? etc.

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ANALYSING The skill of analysing involves exploring the assumptions, ideas or structure inherent in a text or other piece of information. INDICATORS: • Matches adjectives describing the animals in the boat and the crocodile. • Appreciates the role of the crocodile.

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THINKING MORE ABOUT THINKING How can mind pictures help you to remember the characters in a story?

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ANALYSING The skill of analysing involves exploring the assumptions, ideas or structure inherent in a text or other piece of information. INDICATOR: Creates and analyses data from a simple graph.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • The students will need to be familiar with the conventions of bar graphs before completing this activity.

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ANALYSING The skill of analysing involves exploring the assumptions, ideas or structure inherent in a text or other piece of information. INDICATORS: • Reads an experiment. • Answers question about an experiment.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Water has a see-through ﬁlm or ‘skin’ created by surface tension. Light objects such as leaves or insects can sit on top of the water because the water molecules stick closely to each other instead of to the object. Therefore, if all the conditions are right, the surface tension should support the weight of the paperclip. • Some insects, for example water striders, use the ‘skin’ of the water to walk across the surface of a stream. The ﬁsher spider can also ‘walk on water’.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Students analyse other procedures such as recipes and instructions for making things. • Students compare a recipe and an experiment to ﬁnd similar language features. • Students give presentations to explain orally how to carry out the experiment. • Students suggest reasons why the experiments may not be successful.

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• Tear a piece of tissue paper approximately 8 cm x 6 cm. • Drop the paper carefully so that it lies ﬂat on the surface of the water. • Place the ﬂat paperclip carefully on the paper without touching the water. • Use the eraser end of the pencil to gently poke the paper until it sinks. (Try not to move the paperclip!)

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ANALYSING The skill of analysing involves exploring the assumptions, ideas or structure inherent in a text or other piece of information. INDICATORS: • Considers reasons for locations of different features. • Chooses suitable locations for additional features.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Construct a large map outline of a ﬁctional place to include features of interest to the students. Draw these features on separate cards, to be placed on and removed from the map at will. Working in groups, students give reasons for their choice of location for each feature. • Study a simple physical map of Australia. Discuss the different climates and natural terrain and reasons why the major cities have developed along the coast. • View a program about Antarctica through the year. Summarise the changes that occur from winter to summer. Discuss why human habitation is so harsh and why it is unlikely to ever be colonised by people other than scientists.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Study the map of Hillside Harbour and discuss locations of different features. Explain that natural features play a large role in determining the location of built features. • Discuss what would be required in a playground and picnic area and some possible locations.

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Maps show the layout of the land and make it easy to see where places are and to understand why things are built where they are. 1. Study the map of Hillside Harbour.

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Why do you think the harbour was given its name? Why do you think the wind farm was positioned on the hillside? What do you think the shops might sell? Where would be a good place to have, (i) a playground? (ii) a picnic area? THINKING MORE ABOUT THINKING How well do you understand maps? What could help you understand better?

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ANALYSING The skill of analysing involves exploring the assumptions, ideas or structure inherent in a text or other piece of information. INDICATOR: • Tests and analyses information about his/her heart rate.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Conduct tests to ﬁnd out some other ways in which our bodies respond when we exercise; e.g. a ﬂushed face, feeling thirsty, sweating. • Label a simple diagram of the heart and discuss how it works.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Teachers may like the students to complete the exercises described in Question 1 as a class. It would be better to begin with the clapping and finish with the jogging, as these will give the most extreme results. • Ensure the students are able to feel their heartbeat before beginning the activities. If they find it difficult to feel it by putting their hands on their chest, they could feel the pulse in their neck instead.

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Your heart is a very clever machine. It can change how fast it beats to pump more or less blood around your body. Put your hands on your chest and feel the beat of your heart.

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ANALYSING The skill of analysing involves exploring the assumptions, ideas or structure inherent in a text or other piece of information. INDICATORS: • Looks at a picture of a Toby jug. • Answers questions about a Toby jug.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Toby jugs have existed since early in the 18th century. Royal Doulton is particularly well known for developing its series of character jugs. Toby jugs depict characters from history, stories and even movie stars. They have become very collectable items and some are worth a lot of money. Often the characters will depict some aspect of society or momentous event. For example, they may include heroes of historical battles, Jesse Owens—who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics—and for a short time there existed characters jugs of Mae West, Clark Gable, Groucho Marx, Jimmy Durante and Louis Armstrong. • The questions asked relate to various aspects of the arts curriculum. Question 2 (a) relates to Arts Ideas and Arts in Society, Question 2 (b) relates to Arts Skills and Processes, Question 2 (c) relates to Arts Responses and Question 2 (d) relates to Arts Ideas or Arts in Society.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Students examine and make critical judgments of their own artworks to ﬁnd areas of improvement. • Students view famous artworks and give opinions as an oral presentation. • Students compare two different types of artwork (such as a painting and a sculpture) to show how each uses different skills and techniques to present the artist’s ideas. • Students write their own checklists to use when reviewing artworks. • Students collate a list of things which they dislike about other artworks and keep them to ensure that do not include these aspects in their own artworks.

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1. Look at the picture of the Toby jug of the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. 2. Answer the questions.

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(a) Why do you think the artist decided to choose the Mad Hatter as the character for a jug?

(b) What skills and techniques did the artist have to use to make the jug? (One suggestion has been given.)

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Thinking challenges Topic focus

Fascinating fairytales

• Relate or retell a well-known fairytale. • Make a list of characters from well-known fairytales. • Categorise characters from well-known fairytales into villains and heroes, main character and lesser characters etc. Understanding • Discuss the language features and format of a fairytale. Remembering

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• Rewrite a fairytale from the point of view of the ‘villain’.

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Write deﬁnitions for the words ‘hobby’, ‘chores’ and ‘leisure’. Record a list of activities which class members do just for fun! Make a list of hobbies/leisure-time activities and chores and explain the difference. Give an oral report about a favourite leisure-time activity.

• Next to a list of ‘fun’ activities, write information such as costs, equipment needed, special clothing required etc. for each activity. • Using information about different leisure-time activities, identify those which you would be able to do.

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• Complete a wanted poster for a villain from a fairytale. • Write a description of a character from a fairytale. • Choose a character from a fairytale and write good and bad aspects of his/her character and actions.

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A grim limerick ........................................................................................Pages 68–69 How many pets? ......................................................................................Pages 70–71 Pet needs .................................................................................................Pages 72–73 School map ...............................................................................................Pages 74–75 Plan a routine ...........................................................................................Pages 76–77 Listen to the music ..................................................................................Pages 78–79

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EVALUATING: STUDENT SELF-EVALUATION Use the sections below to record thoughts or information about the worksheets or answers to the metacognitive questions on each student page. Name Pages 68–69

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A grim limerick

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Science

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Reads a limerick. Identiﬁes correct statements about a limerick. Gives own opinion about a limerick. Conducts a survey to answer speciﬁc questions. Uses information to determine the most popular pets.

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• Determines and justiﬁes what pets need to be happy and healthy.

Society and Environment • Looks at and evaluates features on a map.

School map

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• Responds to and gives opinions about contrasting pieces of music.

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SOME APPROPRIATE GRAPHIC ORGANISERS: Advantages/Disadvantages T-chart, Decision-making matrix, PMI chart, Relevant/Irrelevant T-chart, Y-chart, Fact/Opinion T-chart, 5Ws diagram, Continuum, Problem/Solution organiser etc. SOME SUITABLE QUESTIONS: Is there a better solution to … ?, Do you think … is a good or bad thing?, What changes would you recommend to … ?, How would you feel if … ?, How effective is … ?, What do you think about …?, Do you believe … ?, How would you have … ? etc.

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Evaluating The skill of evaluating involves judging the merits of ideas according to a set of criteria, standards or values. INDICATORS: • Reads a limerick. • Identiﬁes correct statements about a limerick. • Gives own opinion about a limerick.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • A limerick is a nonsense poem made up of ﬁve lines. It rhymes in a special pattern: lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and usually have the same number of syllables; lines 3 and 4 rhyme and are shorter than the others. Students are using this criterion to evaluate a limerick, as well as their own opinions. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Compare the opinions and ratings of the same limerick, rhyme or poem by different students in the class and encourage the students to justify their opinions. • Students devise a list of reasons for liking a poem and use this to judge other poems. • Students give reasons to justify liking or disliking a particular story or book. • Read stories, poems or rhymes written by other students in the class and make a list of quality (positive) features used to encourage students to improve their future writing projects.

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There once was a boy named Tim Who ﬁlled his glass to the brim. He swallowed so fast That his breath was his last. So all of his family was grim.

2. All the statements below tell about limericks.Tick the box if the statement is true for the limerick above. (a) A limerick is a nonsense poem made up of ﬁve lines. ............................. Limericks rhyme in a special pattern.

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THINKING MORE ABOUT THINKING When you rate a limerick, would you rate it according to how well it ﬁtted the correct pattern of a limerick, by the topic choice or by how funny it was? Why? R.I.C. Publications® • www.ricgroup.com.au

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Evaluating The skill of evaluating involves judging the merits of ideas according to a set of criteria, standards or values. INDICATORS: • Conducts a survey to answer speciﬁc questions. • Uses information to determine the most popular pets.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Conduct an alternative survey using an appropriate topic; e.g. favourite activities. Use a range of graphical representations to present the results; e.g. bar graphs, Venn diagrams. • ‘Taller people have wider hand spans than shorter people.’ Conduct a survey to prove or disprove this statement. • Is the spread of birthdays in the class even or uneven? Conduct a survey to investigate. What do you conclude from the information? Explain why.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Find information by either asking students to raise hands in answer to questions or allowing them to research independently. In the latter case, discuss how they will carry out the research. • Discuss the results and ways of representing them graphically.

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Many Australians have pets. Some have just one but others have many different pets.

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1. (a) How many children are in your class? ................................................

2. How many children have, (a) a dog?

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Evaluating The skill of evaluating involves judging the merits of ideas according to a set of criteria, standards or values. INDICATOR: • Determines and justiﬁes what pets need to be happy and healthy.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Before the students commence the worksheet, hold a class discussion about basic needs of living things (food, water and shelter) and how the students care for their pets. Differences in the type of care given to different pets should be considered; e.g. types of food, exercise, toys, grooming and cleaning out their homes.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Read made-up descriptions of how some people look after their pets. The students can decide whether or not each person is a good pet owner and how he/she could improve the care of a particular pet. • Have the students keep a diary for a week to record how they do their best to improve how they care for their pets. At the end of the week, they could evaluate how well they did. • Have the students choose from a list which pet they would most like to look after and why. • Invite an animal care worker to talk to the class about the special needs of native animals. The class could then make posters to educate the general public about some of the things they could do to help preserve native animals.

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Like all living things, pets need special care to keep them happy and healthy. All pets need food, water, exercise and shelter to stay alive. 1. Circle the pet need(s) you think is/are the most important. Write why you think so. exercise r o e t s B r e oo p u k S water

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Evaluating The skill of evaluating involves judging the merits of ideas according to a set of criteria, standards or values. INDICATOR: • Looks at and evaluates features on a map.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Students should be familiar with maps of this nature before completing the exercise. • Discuss with the students how objects on a map are drawn close to scale; for example a school oval would actually take up the largest area of a school map.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • View maps of bedrooms or playgrounds and decide why furniture and equipment have been placed in their current positions. • Explain the codes or legends on a map. • Compare ﬂoor plans of two different homes and write the advantages and disadvantages of each. • Rank maps of town centres in order of preference and give reasons for the ranking.

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ANSWERS: 1. Teacher check 2. Answers will vary but may include: (a) (i) The ofﬁce and staffroom are close to the car park so that the staff can get to their cars easily. (ii) The staff can watch the students playing on the oval and are close if accidents occur. (b) (i) The library is in a central location for all the classes. (ii) The basketball courts are away from classrooms so that glass windows won’t be broken by stray balls and students won’t be playing around classrooms. (iii) The car park is close to the staffroom and away from classrooms where students may be gathering. (c) Yes, this is a small school with only ﬁve classrooms.

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Evaluating The skill of evaluating involves judging the merits of ideas according to a set of criteria, standards or values. INDICATORS: • Chooses constituent parts of a movement routine. • Evaluates performance of the routine.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Give students the opportunity to perform a number of jumps, turns, rolls, stretches and balances, with and without apparatus. Highlight the sensation of movement within the body as each move is performed.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Work beside a partner, performing your own routines but starting and finishing at the same time and starting from and finishing at the same places. Other group members will determine how well you followed your planned routine. • Watch three performers from a televised skating competition. Give your opinion on who should come first, second and third. Did you agree with the real judges? • List all the physical activity you do in one week. Do you think you are active enough? Give reasons for your answer.

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Evaluating The skill of evaluating involves judging the merits of ideas according to a set of criteria, standards or values. INDICATOR: Responds to and gives opinions about contrasting pieces of music.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Teachers will need to select excerpts from two different pieces of music to play for the students. The pieces must be contrasting and instrumental. Classical music would be ideal. Some suggestions are pieces from Carnival of the animals (Saint-Saens), Peter and the wolf (Prokoﬁev), The four seasons (Vivaldi) or The planets (Holst). The titles of the pieces should not be revealed to the students, as this will affect their evaluation of the music. • Depending on the ability and experience of the class, the pieces could be played a few times before the students commence the worksheet, just before they answer each question or even while they are answering the questions.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • After the students have completed the worksheet, teachers could reveal the titles of the pieces or give some details about what the music represents. Have the students give their opinions on what has been revealed. • Have the class bring in their favourite songs on CD. The students could listen to a small group of these and rank them in order of preference. • Have small groups of students use percussion instruments to accompany songs. They can then evaluate their performances.

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Thinking challenges Topic focus Remembering

Colours • List all the colours you can think of.

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• Draw a picture that shows only objects or animals of one or two colours; e.g. for orange and black, you might draw a tiger eating a carrot and a pumpkin. • Draw a rainbow, showing the correct order of colours. • Which colours would you never wear? Give reasons. • Survey a group of ten people to ﬁnd out their favourite colour. Show the results in a table or as a graph.

• Imagine a world with no colour. Write what you think it would be like. • Redesign your school uniform, using colours you really like.

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• Draw and label six farm animals you can think of. • Write a list of farm vehicles or machines you have read about or seen.

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• Read about the life of a farmer. Write a daily schedule for him/her.

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• Would you prefer to live on a farm or in the city? Say why.

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Story salad ...............................................................................................Pages 82–83 Number crossword ................................................................................Pages 84–85 Fashion designer ....................................................................................Pages 86–87 Party time ..................................................................................................Pages 88–89 Basic movements dance ........................................................................Pages 90–91 Recycled art .............................................................................................Pages 92–93

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CREATING: STUDENT SELF-EVALUATION Use the sections below to record thoughts or information about the worksheets or answers to the metacognitive questions on each student page. Name Pages 84–85

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Thinking activity • Plans and creates a narrative based on elements from known narratives. • Completes a number crossword. • Creates clues to match numbers in a number crossword. • Considers weather and material properties when designing an outﬁt. • Draws designs for outﬁts.

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Creating The skill of creating involves using previous knowledge to produce new ideas and different ways of seeing things. INDICATOR: • Plans and creates a narrative based on elements from known narrative.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Before the students commence the worksheet, a class discussion could be held about stories the students know well. Titles of suitable stories (e.g. fairytales) could be written on the board for student reference. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Write character profiles for characters from known narratives. • Read aloud the beginning of a story to the students. Ask them to make up an ending. • Have the class sit in a circle. Start telling a story, then stop at an exciting part. Have the next student in the circle continue and also stop at an exciting part. Continue around the circle. • Create new stories involving the main characters from well-known narratives.

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Creating The skill of creating involves using previous knowledge to produce new ideas and different ways of seeing things. INDICATORS: • Completes a number crossword. • Creates clues to match answers in a number crossword.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Students may complete the number crossword in Question 1 with the teacher to ensure that they understand the steps correctly. • Teachers may also complete the ﬁrst example in Question 2 to assist students, before allowing them to complete the activity independently. • To reinforce particular operations, teachers may direct students to use only addition, subtraction, multiplication or division; or a combination of two or more; or allow students to choose any operations they wish.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Write a code matching a number problem to each letter of the alphabet to spell out words in a sentence making a comment about maths activities. • Design a pattern or picture using 2-D shapes. • Colour intricate pictures by number with the number being the answer to number problems. • Create number word problems for other students to solve.

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Creating The skill of creating involves using previous knowledge to produce new ideas and different ways of seeing things. INDICATORS: • Considers seasonal weather and material properties when designing an outﬁt. • Draws designs for outﬁts.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Discuss the differences between summer and winter weather and the protection from the elements that clothes must offer. • Discuss the properties of a range of fabrics commonly used for clothes. Match fabrics with the protection required. • Show a range of clothing, discuss the protection each gives and the season for which it is best suited.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Prepare a commentary for a fashion parade showing summer and winter clothes. Include the different types of fabric in each outﬁt and the protection they give. • Make a cardboard cut-out doll with a wardrobe of summer and winter clothes made from pieces of different materials. • Create a fashion magazine using pictures cut out from magazines. Give a suitable occasion for wearing each outﬁt and highlight the protection it gives.

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Creating The skill of creating involves using previous knowledge to produce new ideas and different ways of seeing things. INDICATOR: • Imagines and plans a party to celebrate a special family occasion.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Before the students commence the worksheet, hold a class discussion about celebrations. The students can suggest some of the special occasions they celebrate. When the students come to complete the worksheet, encourage them to be as creative as possible, while keeping in mind the important elements of their chosen occasion. • When the students have completed the worksheet, their answers can be shared with other students to allow them to compare different special occasions or ways of celebrating. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Create some decorations you could use to help celebrate different special occasions. • Read about celebrations from other countries. Write an entry from a travel diary that explains what you might see or hear at one of these celebrations. • Design an invitation to an upcoming event in your local community.

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Creating The skill of creating involves using previous knowledge to produce new ideas and different ways of seeing things. INDICATOR: • Completes a table to create a dance using basic movements.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Discuss and list on the board a variety of basic movements for students to choose from. • If possible, play a piece of music and ask students to fit in and count a variety of basic movements to fit. • Students may work in pairs or small groups to complete the task. • The students may vote for the best dance(s) to be performed for a younger class or at a school assembly. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Compose a series of gymnastic movements to be performed carefully in a sequence. • Modify the basic movements to fit another piece of music. • Fit the movements of another student, pair or group to your own music. • Prepare a series of basic physical activities (such as a variety of ball skills) to be used as a tabloid sports activity. • Construct an obstacle course using climbing equipment, mini trampolines, balancing boards and hoops or tyres for others to complete.

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Creating The skill of creating involves using previous knowledge to produce new ideas and different ways of seeing things. INDICATOR: • Designs and makes playground equipment from junk material.

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TEACHER INFORMATION: • Make a collection of junk material in the weeks prior to doing the activity. Small items for connecting larger pieces are also required. • Discuss the types of equipment found in a playground, including shape and structure. • Consider which junk material would be useful for making standard equipment. Do any pieces of junk offer ideas for inventing new equipment? • Students make and decorate their models.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SKILL: • Make a junk model of a different item or scene; e.g. a doll’s house, a farm, a zoo. • Find practical ways to recycle junk material at home and at school. • Make a bright display of an tropical underwater scene using a wide range of junk materials.

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Thinking challenges Topic focus

Water

• Make a collection of magazine pictures which show how we use water. • Use a word web to show the different uses of water. • Design a poster to show what happens when water is put in a freezer and when it is boiled in a kettle. Understanding • Explain to a younger child why it is important to save water. • Place sticks of celery in water coloured with a few drops of food colour. Watch what happens! Remembering

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• Mix different materials with water. Which materials dissolve? Which do not dissolve? • Carefully place objects made from different materials onto the surface of water in a container. Which objects ﬂoat? Which objects sink?

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• How much water do sprouting seeds need? Conduct an experiment to ﬁnd out.

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• Write a story about an adventure on a river or at sea. • Write a ‘water’ acrostics poem.

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