Lower Themes - Needs, Changes, Moving and Places: Places by Teacher Superstore

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Foreword Places is one of a series of four books designed specifically for lower primary students. Places utilises the personal experiences of students by investigating places closely connected to them—the home, street and neighbourhood, school and local environment. The widely-varied activities in this book cross many major learning areas but in particular connect to units in the key learning areas of Human Society and its Environment (HSIE), Science and Technology, Personal development/Health/Physical Education (PDHPE), Creative Arts (Visual Arts, Music, Drama, Dance) and English.

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Titles in this series: • Places • Needs • Changes • Moving

Teachers notes .............................................................................iv – v Connected Outcomes Groups overview.......................................... vi – vii

My home ........................................................2–3

One school, many places ..............................42–43

What happens at home? ..................................4–5

Caring for our school ....................................44–45

Rules at home ..................................................6–7

Recycling at school .......................................46–47

Which room? ..................................................8–9

Be safe at school ..........................................48–49

What would you do? ....................................10–11

Safe, healthy decisions ..................................50–51

Environmental snakes and ladders ...................12–13

Making the school playground safer ................52–53

My special places ........................................14–15

Places near me ............................................54–55

My bedroom ...............................................16–17

Favourite places ...........................................56–57

Van Gogh’s bedroom ....................................18–19

Popular historical places ................................58–59

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Natural beauty.............................................60–61

My street ....................................................22–23

Safety rules and slogans ................................62–63

An energy-saving home .................................24–25

Making it safer.............................................64–65

The street where I live ....................................26–27

Safety on the road ........................................66–67

How clean and safe is my street? ....................28–29

Special places .............................................68–69

My neighbourhood .......................................30–31

Soundscape orchestra ...................................70–71

‘Most cared for neighbourhood’ competition......32–33

Where am I? ...............................................72–73

How do you get to school? ............................34–35

Faraway places ...........................................74–75

Around our school – 1...................................36–37

Pollution problems.........................................76–77

Around our school – 2...................................38–39

How can I help the environment? ....................78–79

Traffic around our school ................................40–41

A place for my favourite character ...................80–81

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Teachers notes The pages in this book follow a similar format. A teachers page on the left-hand side accompanies a student page on the right-hand side.

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Worksheet information details any background information required by the teacher or presents specific details regarding the use of the worksheets.

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Curriculum links are given for the particular learning area relating to the topic. These learning areas are predominantly English, Human Society and Its Environment, Science and Technology, Personal Development/Health/Physical Development and Creative Arts. However, other learning areas have been included. The information provided on the teachers pages gives complete details about using the worksheets during a lesson. This includes what the teacher could do before, during and after the lesson. Any additional materials or equipment needed other than lead pencils are mentioned. iv

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The student page has the following information.

The title reflects the type of activity to be completed. Answers are provided on the teachers page for this page if needed.

The activities on the student page are ageappropriate, requiring students to read, write, cut and glue, match, copy or draw in order to complete them.

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My home Indicators • Describes and draws his or her own house. • Writes his or her own address.

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• Prior to this lesson you will need to ensure you have a copy of each student’s current address.

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• Read a book to the students that includes a home in the story; examples include the Three little pigs, Hairy Mclary stories by Linley Dodd, Hansel and Gretel, No place like home by Colin Thompson and Anna Pignataro, A house is a house for me by Mary Ann Hoberman and Betty Fraser, This is the house that Jack built, Goldilocks and the three bears.

• After reading the story, ask the students about the home (or homes) in the story. What was it like? Was it big or small? What was it made of? Who lived there? Where was the home? How was it a special place? Was this home like those we see in our local environment? • Ask the students what kind of home they live in. Write some of the different homes, such as houses, apartments, duplexes, townhouses, on the board. Encourage students to use descriptive words and write some of them on the board, such as storey, ﬂoor, kitchen, yard, stairs, rectangular.

• Give students a copy of the worksheet and read the text with them. Students complete the worksheet by drawing a picture of their own home, then writing an acrostic poem to describe their home and how it is special to them.

• Make a graph of the different types of homes students live in, or suburbs the homes are in.

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• Students could think of some ways they could improve their house, then draw or paint their improved home.

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What happens at home? Indicator • Matches parts of the home with the activities each is used for.

Worksheet information • For this activity, students will need scissors and magazines or catalogues with pictures of people doing different activities at home (such as reading, eating, playing or working on the computer, cooking, shaving, playing board games, cleaning etc.).

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• If possible, show the students the ﬂoor plan of a house (homes for sale on the Internet often have printable house plans). Discuss how we have different rooms for different purposes, and that not all homes have the same number of rooms. Discuss how some of these activities at home are shared activities that family members do together, and some that we do alone. Ask students to think of what kind of things we do in the different rooms of a home.

• Students complete the activity by cutting pictures from magazines and catalogues of various activities and gluing them into the appropriate space on the worksheet.

Additional activities • Students can use paints to create a picture of their favourite activities at home.

• Investigate how homes differ around the world. Students can create an image of a home from a country or culture and compile for a class book.

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What happens at home? Different rooms in our homes are used for different things. 1. Cut pictures from magazines and catalogues of activities that people do at home.

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2. Glue them in the room where they belong.

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Rules at home Indicator • Identiﬁes and writes two rules at home and why they are in place.

Worksheet information • Ask the students to locate the classroom rules. Ask them why the rules are there. Guide students to the understanding that the rules are behaviour guidelines to keep everyone safe. Point out that the rules also help make the classroom a clean, safe and comfortable place for everyone. Ask the students if they have rules at home. Write some of their suggestions on the board.

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• Ask why these rules are there. Students should identify the rules as being there to make home a safe and comfortable place. Give the students an example of a rule, such as putting toys away. Explain that when toys aren’t put away people might trip over them, and it becomes hard to ﬁnd things. Ask a student to role-play one possible consequence of leaving toys out. Ask another student to role-play a consequence of not following one of the other suggested rules written on the board.

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• Give each student a copy of the worksheet. Read the text with them and explain the activity. Students then complete the worksheet by writing two rules they have at home, why these rules are in place, and draw or write what might happen if the rule is not adhered to.

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Rules at home We have rules at home about the way we act and about caring for our home. These rules make our home comfortable, safe and special. 1. Write two rules you have at home and why you have them.

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Which room? Indicator • Identiﬁes household dangers and locates the rooms in which they are most likely to occur.

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• The topic can be introduced by discussing the concept that although parents and children try very hard to keep their homes safe places to be, many children are still injured at home. Some of these injuries are not serious and can be dealt with at home while others require a visit to the doctor or even a trip to hospital. Encourage students to share their experiences and those of family members and friends. The focus should be more on the danger and cause of the injury than on the consequences. • Students will need scissors and glue to complete the worksheet.

• Each of the 12 dangers at the bottom of the page should be read and discussed in terms of why it is dangerous, what can happen and how injury can be prevented. Possible treatment and action if an injury occurs could also be discussed, but the intended focus of this activity is on raising awareness, identifying dangers and minimising the risk of injury in students’ homes.

• In order to place each of the dangers in a particular room on the worksheet, students will need to relate the danger to their own home and to identify in which room it is most likely to be found. For example: There may be different types of scissors in a number of rooms in their home, but they will need to decide where they pose the greatest risk.

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• ‘Where shall we keep it?’ Pairs of students draw a dangerous household product from a selection placed in a hat and role-play a discussion between two parents to decide where and how to safely store it in their home. They then report and explain their decision to the class. • Examine labels on prescription drugs and identify features such as the name of the patient and the prescribing doctor, the date dispensed and the instructions about how much and how often the tablets should be taken. Discuss why each feature is required and the danger of someone else taking the medication and ways of preventing this occurring.

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• Brainstorm a list of reasons why children shouldn’t give themselves medicine and ask children to make a personal list of people who can give them medicine.

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Which room? 1. Cut out and glue each danger in one room of the house.

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What would you do? Indicator • Reads scenarios about home safety issues and role-plays possible solutions.

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• Read the scenarios with the class and ask them to think what they might do in each situation, if they were there. • The students should work in small groups to decide the following: ~ Which scenario would their group like to solve? ~ What would they do in that situation?

~ Would they need someone to help them? If so, do they know how to do this?

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• Explain that not all the scenarios described would necessitate a call to emergency services but that every student should know how to contact them and be able to provide information about the particular service needed, their location and contact information such as phone numbers. Students should practise this in pairs after a teacher demonstration and role-play.

~ How could they make sure that they stayed safe and didn’t put themselves in danger?

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• Create a cartoon strip showing different scenes from one of the scenarios. • Make up a new danger in the home scenario for others to solve.

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• Make a poster to display at home. The title should read:

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Students should add a number of clauses to complete the sentence, as well as appropriate illustrations.

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What would you do? Read the stories and think about what you would do. Little pink lollies

You walk into the bathroom and notice that there is water all over the floor because your brother didn’t take care when he had a shower. The floor is really slippery. Your grandfather is staying at your house and you are worried that he will slip and hurt himself.

You can hear your baby sister laughing and talking to herself as you walk past Grandfather’s bedroom. When you look in you can see her sitting on the floor with a bottle in her hands. She is saying ‘lollies, little lollies’ and trying to open the bottle. You can see she has some of Grandfather’s tablets but the bottle is still sealed and she hasn’t eaten any yet.

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You are outside playing cricket with some friends. You hit the ball really hard and it goes across the grass, bounces on the patio and smashes into the sliding door. Glass goes everywhere and your friends run home.

Your dad is on the roof painting the gutters. You hear a loud bang and when you go outside, Dad has fallen off the roof and is lying on the path groaning. He can’t get up.

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Environmental snakes and ladders Indicators • Considers ways of looking after the environment by conserving water and electricity and recycling at home. • Creates and plays an environmental board game.

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• Discuss the importance of looking after the environment and why it is important that everyone conserves water and electricity and recycles.

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• Brainstorm different ways in which students and their families can conserve water and electricity at home. Write the heading ‘Caring for the environment’ on the board and use the students’ ideas to complete Do and Don’t lists below it, keeping the wording short and simple; e.g. Water at night.

• Add ideas about recycling at home to these lists; e.g. Reuse shopping bags.

• Students can then work in small groups to make a game of environmental snakes and ladders.

• Copy page 13 on light card. It can be enlarged to A3 to provide more room for students to write. The brainstormed ideas could be compiled on a sheet, written in appropriately sized frames and photocopied for students to read, select from, then cut out and paste on their page.

• Each group will need to select three ideas from the Do list to place at the bottom of the ladders and three from the Don’t list to place at the head of the snakes, to create their individual game. They may like to add illustrations and to colour their boards. • The players will need a counter each and a die or spinner. These could be made using recycled materials.

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• Plant a class tree in the school grounds. Make a plan to care for the tree. Consider how it can best be protected from damage by students playing nearby. This concept could be extended by generating ideas for the planting, care and protection of plants at home.

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• Make a poster with a message about conserving electricity or water to display in an appropriate place at home. • Compile a class list of materials students recycle in their homes.

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TS1.1 RS1.7

ENS1.6

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SOSE0103

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My special places Indicator • Draws and writes about his/her special places.

Worksheet information • As a class, discuss favourite/special places, why they are important and what students do there. Ask students to describe the features of their special places. Orally sort special places mentioned into ‘natural’ or ‘built’ environments.

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• When drawing, encourage the students to use many different colours and to put in as much detail as possible.

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• Read the instructions on the worksheet and each sentence with the students.

• Select a number of students to display and read their pictures and sentences to the class, when completed.

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• Survey and graph the number of students who do similar things in their special places; for example, dressing up, reading, drawing.

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• After viewing the pictures and listening to selected students read out their sentences about their special places, students may draw a picture or design their ‘ideal special place’.

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My bedroom Indicator • Completes information about his/her own bedroom.

Worksheet information • Before commencing the worksheet, discuss houses, rooms in houses and what they are used for.

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• On the board, list and/or draw the most common objects found in a bedroom.

• Students should attempt Questions 2 to 7 with minimal assistance. Question 3 can be modelled for the students before they attempt it independently.

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• Complete Question 1 on the worksheet with the students, reading through the words while they tick those which can be found in their own bedroom.

• Students use a shoebox and recycled materials to create a model of their own bedroom, ensuring that they include all the important components.

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RES1.5, RES1.7, RES1.8, WES1.10

ENES1

1.3, 1.4, 1.8

1.4, 1.5

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PS 1.4,

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Van Gogh’s bedroom Indicators • Identiﬁes qualities of artworks. • Plans and creates a painting.

Worksheet information

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• For this activity each student will need a sheet of A3 art paper, a lead pencil and paints in a variety of colours.

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• Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh is one of the world’s most recognised painters. He painted, among other things, three famous versions of his own bedroom.

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• Obtain a poster or copy of Vincent Van Gogh’s bedroom (available at http://www.vangoghgallery.com or http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh).

• Display the picture where the students can see it clearly. Explain to the students that this is a copy of a famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh. Ask them to tell you what they see. Ask them about the colours, shapes, lines and objects in the painting. Ask them what the feeling they get from the picture is, and what their impressions are.

• Tell the students that this picture is of Vincent van Gogh’s bedroom. It was a such a special place for him, he made three paintings of it! Tell the students that they are going to paint their own bedroom pictures. Ask them to reﬂect on their responses to the worksheet on page 17. What colours, shapes, and feelings do they ﬁnd in their bedrooms? How could they express these in a painting? What are the features in their bedrooms they think are the most important?

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• Discuss other special places at home. Use different art techniques to create images of these places, such as using watercolours or charcoal.

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Creative Arts

NSW

WS 1.10, RES1.5, RES 1.6, RES 1.7

VAS 1.1, VAS 1.3, VAS 1.4

1.3, 1.4

1.1, 1.2, 1.3

Qld

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VA1.1, VA1.2, VA1.3

Vic.

ENWR010, ENWR0104, ENRE 0101, ENRE 0103, ENRE 0104

ARVA0101, ARVA0102.

W1.1, R1.1, R1.3, R1.4

AR1, AI1, ASP1

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Van Gogh’s bedroom Make a plan for painting your own bedroom. 1. What objects will I paint?

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Design a storybook house Indicator • Completes a design for a house for a storybook family.

Worksheet information • Before this activity, read or have the students retell a number of stories about storybook characters to the class. Examples include The three little pigs, The little red hen, Hansel and Gretel, The three billy goats Gruff, Jack and the beanstalk and Snow White and the seven dwarfs.

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• Read the instructions with the students and assist with any unfamiliar words. Students should be able to complete the worksheet with minimal assistance.

• The design to be drawn on the back of the worksheet is only the ﬁrst attempt. Students can complete more than one design until they are satisﬁed with the result.

• Discuss how the students will know that the design is suitable for the family. Make a list of possible criteria for evaluating the success of the design. These may include things such as the rooms are suitable for the family to do their activities, the family is comfortable and safe etc. Students may wish to rate their design out of ﬁve and share their design with another class member.

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Science and technology

NSW

RES1.5, RES1.7, RES1.8, WES1.10

DMES1.8

1.3, 1.4, 1.8

1.3

Qld

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TP 1.1, TP 1.2; INF 1.2

Vic.

ENRE0101, ENRE0103, ENRE0104, ENWR0101

TEMM0102

R1.1, R1.3, R1.4, W1.1

I 1.1, I 1.2; TP 1.2, TP 1.3, I 1.1, I 1.2

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My street Indicator • Completes information about houses in his or her own street.

Worksheet information • If desired, students can be asked to ﬁnd out the answers to Questions 1 to 4 for homework rather than relying on memory.

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• Discuss the types of answers required and, if necessary, write words on the board to assist students, as some will like the correct spelling of words such as brick, wood, hardiplank™, tiles, corrugated iron etc.

• Drawing from memory is an important skill. Encourage students to include as many details as possible.

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• Read any unfamiliar words to the students.

• After completing the worksheet, discuss the similarities and differences between houses in the same street. Ask students to write comparative sentences (such as ‘Most houses in my street are made from brick but a few are made from wood’) about the houses in their street.

Additional activities

• Students count the number of houses made from brick, wood etc. and complete a simple bar graph or pictograph to record the information. Repeat for other aspects about the houses in the street including roof materials, garages/carports, vehicles for each house etc.

• Students use a simple drawing computer program to create a street scene.

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RES1.5, RES1.7, RES1.8, WES1.10

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1.4, 1.5

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ENRE0101, ENRE0103, ENRE0104, ENWR0101

SOSE0101, SOSE0103

R1.1, R1.3, R1.4, W1.1

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My street There are usually many homes on a street. They are not all the same. Complete the following by using your memory. 1. There are

houses on my street.

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An energy-saving home Indicators • Writes suggestions for maximising and minimising the effects of the sun’s heat energy in the home in winter and in summer. • Labels a picture of a house to show insulation features of construction.

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• Explain how a house can absorb the sun’s heat energy through the roof, walls and windows. Describe insulation as a means of protecting the house from heat, cold, light and sound. Determine what the students already know about methods of insulation in the home. Discuss, and if possible show, media commercials for different types of insulation. Include the value of roof ventilation to aid the efﬁciency of insulation and air-conditioning and to prevent problems associated with damp.

• Explain how each type of insulation is used to conserve and/or to protect against the sun’s heat energy. Discuss simple practices that can increase the efﬁciency of the home’s energy-saving plan. For example, during the day in summer, close windows and curtains and lower external blinds to keep the sun’s heat energy out of the home, but during winter, reverse these to allow the heat into the home. • Create a winter/summer table to show the energy-saving strategies for each season. Students can use this table to complete Activity 1.

• After discussion, create a table to show how each feature contributes to the energy efﬁciency of the home.

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• Present a fashion show in which students model the best clothes to wear to protect against all types of weather. Discuss beforehand why each garment is chosen. Use this information in the commentary as each student is ‘modelling’.

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NSW

TES1.1, WES1.1

BEES1.1

1.1, 1.3, 1.4

1.3

Qld

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EC 1.2, EC 1.3

Vic.

ENSL0101, ENWR0101

SCSC0101

LS 1.1, W 1.1

EC 1

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2. Cut out the labels and glue them to the picture.

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roof ventilation

roof insulation

wall insulation

solar panels

window shades

tinted glass

pergola

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The street where I live Indicators • Compares and contrasts scenes from two different streets and describes the possible sounds from each scene. • Draws a picture of features in his/her own street and describes what can be heard.

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• Discuss the different locations and types of streets where people live and what the advantages and disadvantages of each might be.

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• On an enlarged map of the local area, mark the location of each student’s home. Highlight major features such as the school, shopping mall, leisure centre, freeway, main roads. Discuss differences within the locality such as busy/noisy and quiet/peaceful areas.

• Study both pictures and list their features. Discuss the sounds that might be heard in each scene and the effect these sounds might have on the environment of the street and the people who live there. • Give students the opportunity to listen to their environment. If they close their eyes, what can they hear? Take them outside to repeat the exercise. Can they distinguish different sounds?

© R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons • Carry out a survey to determine the number of students who live in different types of streets; e.g. main roads, quiet streets, no through roads, isolated •f o rr e vi ewblocks. pur posesonl y• Additional activities

• Students each write a poem about what can be seen and heard in their street.

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HSIE

RES1.5, WES1.9

ENES 1

1.1, 1.3, 1.4

1.4

Qld

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PS 1.4

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ENWR0101

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V 1.4, W 1.1

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(b) What can you see in Jill’s street?

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Hi! My name’s Jill. This is my street.

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Hi! My name’s Jack. This is my street.

3. Draw a picture of things you can see in your street.

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How clean and safe is my street? Indicators • Studies and discusses the content of a picture of a street scene. • Unjumbles words associated with a picture and determines whether each is a positive or negative feature in the street.

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• Discuss hazards and safety features in the local area. Include safety from trafﬁc, pollution, the sun, other people, animals etc. How might one hazard create another (e.g. discarded rubbish such as takeaway food containers may attract vermin)?

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• Explain that trees are an important safety feature for any environment as they not only absorb carbon dioxide and other pollutants and produce oxygen, they also provide shade from the sun.

• Compile a list of features present in the picture and discuss whether they are safety features or hazards.

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2. trafﬁc lights – good, rubbish – bad, footpath – good, grafﬁti – bad, bus shelter – good, trees – good, exhaust fumes – bad, rubbish bins – good

© R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons • Students create• models ofr their own streets using ap range ofp materials collected from home and the f o r e v i ew ur ose so nthel y • local environment. They present them to the class, describing hazards and safety features. Additional activities

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RES1.5, WES1.9

SLES1.13

1.1, 1.3, 1.4

1.7

Qld

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PHIC 1.3

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1. Look at the picture. Talk about what you can see.

2. The names of some things from the pictures have been mixed up. (a) Unjumble the letters of each word and write it correctly.

(b) Tick a box to say if each thing is good or bad for the street.

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My neighbourhood Indicators • Considers the special features and facilities of his or her own neighbourhood. • Considers how people use their neighbourhood.

Worksheet information

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• It is important for children to learn the variety of features that form their local area. Knowledge of their surroundings helps them deﬁne their place within that community.

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• Explain to the class that their neighbourhood includes their street and the surrounding streets.

• Ask the students to create a list on the board of features and facilities of their neighbourhood. Discuss the difference between a feature and a facility.

• Features may include: park, roundabout, large trees (perhaps particular types of trees which make the neighbourhood special), bush land, marina, beach etc. • Facilities may include: postbox, post ofﬁce, shop, school, library, sport or swimming centre etc.

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© R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons •f o rr e v i e w paints pu r p os e so n l y• • Students use different mediums such as crayons, and charcoal to sketch their favourite parts of • In small groups, students visit another class to conduct a survey about favourite parts of the neighbourhood. They collect the data and represent their ﬁndings as a pictograph. the neighbourhood.

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PS1.5, PS1.4

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SOSE0101, SOSE0102, SOSE0103

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My neighbourhood 1. Read about the people’s favourite parts of their neighbourhood.

My favourite part of my neighbourhood is the scrubland. I take my dog for a long walk every morning.

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My favourite part of my neighbourhood is the post ofﬁce. I post my letters and chat to friends.

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‘Most cared for neighbourhood’ competition Indicators • Considers how people care for their neighbourhood. • Works in a group to complete a script. • Rehearses and performs a play.

Worksheet information • Discuss with the class that if we all work together to look after where we live, everyone can enjoy being in a happy, clean and safe neighbourhood.

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• The play has a cast of four but if smaller groups are preferred, one person can play Molly and another person play all of the three people she meets on the street. The names and gender of the characters can be changed if required.

Costume and prop suggestions

Molly

journalist

notepad and pencil, camera (optional)

James

elderly gentlemen

hat, green bin (a drama block could be used)

Sarah

mother

pram with doll in it, dummy

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– ‘I will help care for my neighbourhood by ...’ • The play can be used as stimulus for various writing activities; e.g. ‘Describe why your neighbourhood (or street) is special’. Competent writers could write and publish Molly’s article. • Collate the ﬁnal sections of each group’s scripts to create a longer, whole-class play which is rehearsed and performed at assembly. Students without parts could work on creating the setting and collecting props. • Discuss what could happen if no-one cared for their neighbourhood.

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family and their neighbours care for their street and neighbourhood. Ideas can be recorded on the board to help students with Question 2. Butcher’s paper can be distributed to each group for this question. • Draw attention to the repetitive parts of Molly’s dialogue. When students are writing the ﬁnal part of the script, they can copy this directly from the worksheet. The teacher may wish to photocopy and enlarge this text for slow writers, who can glue it on to the butcher’s paper. • The teacher may like to emphasise with the class that at their age they should not talk to strangers.

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NSW

WS1.9, RS1.5, TS1.2

ENS1.5, ENS1.6

1.2, 1.3, 1.4

1.4, 1.6

Qld

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PS1.5, PS1.4

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ENSL0101, ENSL0102, ENRE0101, ENWR0101, ENRE0103

SOSE0101, SOSE0102, SOSE0103

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‘Most cared for neighbourhood’ competition 1. Listen to instructions from your teacher about the play. SCENE

Birdwood Street, in the suburb of Happy Valley

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What do you do to help care for your neighbourhood?

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Well, (scratching his chin) on the last Sunday of every month I join in with my neighbours for a ‘clean up our street’ afternoon.

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(Molly stops scribbling on her notepad and looks up at James) Thank you for your time.

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(Smiling and nodding at Sarah) Thank you for your time.

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How do you get to school? Indicators • Uses language to show understanding of position, location and place. • Identiﬁes features of familiar places using simple maps.

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• It is important for children to learn the variety of features that form their local area. Knowledge of their surroundings helps them deﬁne their place within that community. Mapping is a good way to reinforce students’ awareness of their surroundings. Maps help tell a story about the environment.

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• Ensure students only glue on the features from the bottom of the worksheet if they pass by them during their trip to school. • To assist students in understanding direction (Question 3), complete the following activity.

Sit in the middle of the oval with the class and point out features which are north, south, east and west of your position. Ask the students to stand up and move in different directions using different movements. For example: – do slide steps east

– skip to the west

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• Students view a street directory and are shown where the school is on the page. Point out features which are ‘near, ‘next to’, ‘below’ etc. the school.

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Mathematics

ENS1.5

SGS1.3

1.5

1.14

Qld

PS1.4, PS2.4

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How do you get to school? 1. Draw a bird’s-eye map of how you get to school from your house.

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Around our school – 1 Indicators • Observes, identiﬁes and classiﬁes built and natural features surrounding the school boundary. • Listens to and records sounds occurring outside the school boundary.

Worksheet information

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• Parent helpers may be required to help with this activity to ensure adequate supervision of students at the school boundary. Be sure to discuss appropriate behaviour and safety issues with students and parents so everyone is clear on the expectations.

• Depending on the number of ‘side’ boundaries of your school, organise students into groups and designate a parent helper and a particular boundary for observation by the group. • As students tour the school boundary, record the environment across from the school using a digital camera. Ensure shots are clear and detailed enough to be used for further observation in class. Students record their observations in the table at Question 1.

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display photos on the computer for students to see. Ask each group to identify the photos from their boundary. Discuss the images and point out any interesting features they observed. Complete Question 2 on the worksheet.

• Students listen quietly to the recordings made on each boundary. Ask each group to identify the sounds which occurred along their boundary. Discuss the • The next step is to record the sounds students can sounds and point out anything of interest. How do the hear along the designated boundary. Use a recording sounds on each boundary differ? Or are they all the device to collect the sounds heard along the boundary, same? Complete Question 4 on the worksheet. while students sit quietly with their eyes closed and listen. Students record the sounds heard as directed at • Students continue working in their groups to create a Question 3. soundscape to replicate the sounds they heard along their designated boundary. Use materials available to • Students return to class and discuss the built and students within the classroom environment and allow natural features observed on each boundary. How them to experiment with various sounds before putting does each boundary differ? Are they all the same? together and sharing their soundscape. Download the images from the digital cameras and

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Around our school – 2 Indicators • Identiﬁes and collects various natural and built textures using charcoal, pencil and crayon rubbings. • Creates unique body movements to express the various texture rubbings collected.

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• Demonstrate to students how to take a texture rubbing (frottage). Use pencil, crayon and charcoal to demonstrate the different effects which can be achieved by each material. Point out that students may need to put something hard behind the item being rubbed for support and to ensure the rubbing is clear. • Explain to students they will be returning to their designated boundary to collect texture rubbings. Students are to collect six ‘natural’ texture rubbings and six ‘built’ texture rubbings using pencil, charcoal and crayon. • Students, in their original groups, return to their designated boundary. The parent helper must ensure the group stays together and remains safe as they cross any roads and collect the rubbings. Allow a set amount of time (say 20 minutes) so all students return to class at the same time.

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• Parent helpers may be required to help with this activity to ensure adequate supervision of students outside the school boundary. Be sure to discuss appropriate behaviour and safety issues with students and parents so everyone is clear on the expectations. • Discuss with students the concept of ‘texture’. Identify various textures within the classroom environment. Classify textures according to ‘natural’ or ‘built’ and ‘rough’ or ‘smooth’.

• Students work in their group to create a ‘textured’ mural representing the environment they observed. Add appropriate colours, 3-D effects and materials collected to recreate the environment. Present the mural to the class and explain the various textures and items used to create the masterpiece. Discuss the various textures collected from each boundary. How do they differ? Or are they similar? • Discuss the textures collected and encourage students to create movements with their bodies to represent each texture. For example, a smooth texture may be represented by a slow, gliding motion, while a rough, jagged texture may be represented by fast, jagged arm and leg movements.

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Creative Arts

NSW

TS1.2, WS1.11

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Qld

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Vic.

ENRE0205, ENWR0203

HPMP0201

ARPA0201, ARVA0201

W 2.2, W 2.3

IPS 2, SPA 2.1

AI 2, ASP 2

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Traffic around our school Indicators • Draws a bird’s-eye map of his/her school and immediate surrounds to plot safe places to cross the road to enter the school grounds. • Completes a trafﬁc survey to identify the safest places to cross the road to enter the school grounds. • Discusses, orders and role-plays the safest method of crossing the road.

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• Students draw their own map to complete Question 1. • Parent helpers may be required to help with the following activity to ensure adequate supervision of students at the school boundary and car parks. Be sure to discuss appropriate behaviour and safety issues with students and parents so everyone is clear on the expectations. This activity will require students to spend 10 minutes before the end of school and 10 minutes after school has finished for the day as well as 20 minutes before school starts in the morning. Parental permission will be required. • Students work in small groups and are given a designated school boundary, parking area or dropoff/pick-up zone for assessment. Students survey the amount of traffic in their designated area for 20 minutes before school and 20 minutes at the end of the school day. Record data and present information to show the amount of traffic at each time of the day.

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• As a class, discuss and compare the ﬁndings from each designated survey area. Direct students to use this information to decide on the safest points to cross the road in order to enter the school grounds safely. Students use red pencil on their map of the school to show the area they consider to be the safest. Select some students to share their choice with the class and to provide an explanation for choosing the area. • Discuss with students safe practices for crossing the road. (Always cross the road with an adult, stop, look, listen and think.) Students role-play crossing the road; have other students pretend to be cars to make it realistic. • Students then complete Question 3 by cutting, ordering and gluing the pictures on a separate sheet of paper.

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NSW

TS1.2, WS1.11

COS1.1, DMS1.2, INS1.3, PSS1.5, SLS1.13

DS1.1, SGS1.3

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HPIP0201

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KU 2, IPS 2

C&D 13a.2, C&D 13b.2, C&D 14.2, S 15a.2

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One school, many places Indicators • Identiﬁes places in the school environment and suggests uses for these places. • Draws a simple map showing the location of familiar places in the school.

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• Take the students on a walk around the school. Stop at different places (music room, canteen, playground, library) and discuss the different ways these places are used.

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• Back in the classroom, show the students a simple map; for example one from a local zoo with pictorial symbols (for example, print the Melbourne Zoo map from <http://www.zoo. org.au/melbourne/map_mz.htm>). Explain how this map shows a ‘birds-eye view’, looking down on top of the scene. To reinforce this concept, teachers could set a scene on a tray using plastic farm animals or Lego™ pieces, and ask the students to look at it ﬁrstly from the same level on a table, and then from above with the tray on the ﬂoor, and note the differences in what they actually see.

• Ask the students to recall some of the places they saw on the walk, and write these suggestions on the board. How would they look to a bird ﬂying above the school? Draw an example of a representation of one building, and add a symbol to show what the building is used for, such as a book for the library.

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• Students could take digital photos of different places in the school in pairs and write about what happens in that place. These could be compiled as a poster or book.

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• Students could try mapping the classroom and the different places in the classroom. They could write how they feel in these places; e.g. at the front to the class, at their desks, in the reading corner.

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HSIE

NSW

RES1.5, RES1.6, WES1.9, WSES1.11

ENES1

1.3, 1.4, 1.8

1.5

Qld

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PS1.4

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ENWR0103, ENWR0104, ENER0101, ENER0103, ENER0104

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One school, many places There are many places at school that we use for different purposes. 1. Write four places you know at your school and what each is used for. • •

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Caring for our school Indicators • Identiﬁes ways to care for their school and the school environment. • Identiﬁes people responsible for caring for the school environment.

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• Put a class rubbish bin where the students can see it. Ask the students what it is and what it is used for. Who puts rubbish there? Why? Where does it go when the bin is full?

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• Discuss how we put rubbish in the bin to keep the school clean and tidy. This helps make the school a safe and comfortable place for everyone. There are many things we do to care for our school and school equipment. Ask students to suggest some of these things. Examples include keeping desks clean, putting equipment back in the right place, using school equipment properly, looking after library books, and not walking through ﬂower beds.

• Students complete the worksheet by writing two ways they act to care for their school. They then look at the pictures and decide whose responsibility it is to do each job to help care for the school. There can be multiple answers for each picture. To ﬁnish students draw one other job that is done to care for the school and write who does this task

• Students could think of ways to encourage other students to take care of the school environment, such as designing and making posters to put up around the school.

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RES1.5, RES1.6, WES1.9, WSES1.11

ENES1

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1.4

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PS1.5

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ENWR0103, ENWR0104, ENER0101, ENER0103, ENER0104

SOSE0103

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PS1.3

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Recycling at school Indicators • Describes ways waste can be recycled at school. • Identiﬁes materials that can be recycled.

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• Write common items that can be recycled on the board, such as aluminium cans, food scraps (composted), paper, cardboard, milk cartons and glass bottles. Under a separate heading list materials that cannot, such as plastic wrap and styrofoam packaging.

• Inform the students that they are going to keep the waste from their lunches and investigate how much waste the class creates each lunchtime, and how much of it could be recycled. Ask them to keep all their rubbish from lunch, including uneaten food.

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to the amount after the recyclable materials were removed. Discuss ways to encourage recycling at your school and share some of the students suggestions from Question 5 on the worksheets.

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ENES1

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1.3, 1.4, 1.8

1.4, 1.6

1.4

Qld

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PS1.5, SRP1.4

M2.1

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SOSE0103,

MAMDM2.2, MAMA0121

W1.1, W1.3, R1.1, R1.3, R1.4

PS1.3, R1.2

M9a.1, M9b.1

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Weigh your rubbish again and record the weight. Does your waste weigh the same or less?

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Using both sides of a sheet of paper.

Using a drink bottle instead of a disposable drink.

Putting aluminium cans in a rubbish bin.

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Be safe at school Indicators • Reads information about safety at school. • Identiﬁes safe and unsafe places to play at school.

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• Read the information at the top of the page with the students. Discuss any school rules which students know about playing in different places around the school and why these places have rules.

• Students are to identify and write the location of a safe and unsafe place at school to complete the worksheet and to say why they are allowed or not allowed to play there.

• Students complete the worksheet by drawing a picture of each place.

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• Identify some unsafe places at school and how they could be made safer.

• Students paint a safe place in bright, clean colours and smooth, rounded lines and an unsafe place in dark, murky colours and sharp, uneven lines.

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Safe, healthy decisions Indicators • Matches the beginning to the end of the sentence. • Identiﬁes safe and healthy decisions.

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• Read the information at the top of the page and the instructions with the students to ensure that they understand what they are going to do. • The students will require scissors and glue to cut up and glue the sentences parts together on a separate sheet of paper. • Students should complete one or two sentences at a time before having the teacher check them and allowing them to be glued. • When the sentences are dry, the students should read them to see if they sound correct and then tick the things that they do. • Students may illustrate one or two of the sentences.

(f) On a hot day at school, I often sit in the shade. (g) On a hot day at school, I drink lots of water. (h) At school when I am using the path, I always walk. (i) I always play safely on the playground equipment. (j) I keep my school clean by putting my rubbish in the bin. 2. Teacher check

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RES1.5, RES1.7, RES1.8, WES1.10

SLES1.13, DMES1.2

1.3, 1.4, 1.8

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Qld

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PHIC 1.1

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Making the school playground safer Indicators • Writes words which tell about activities students do in different areas. • Identiﬁes possible unsafe areas and the reasons why they may be unsafe.

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• Read the instruction for Question 2 for students to complete. Ask them to think about WHY they are choosing those areas as unsafe so that they can discuss them with their partner to complete Question 3.

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• In the playground, have the students move in different ways to reach different areas of the playground; for example, ‘Run to the sandpit, Hop to the path’.

• As a class, create a map of your own classroom or school to identify safe and unsafe areas. Devise a simple key to use on the map to represent buildings, trees etc.

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making sure that they are not touching anyone else. Students wriggle, spin, jog, ﬂoat etc. in their own personal space. Students move around the room without touching anyone else. Students move from personal space to a group space close to the teacher. Students make a big/little/tall/short/thin shape in their own space.

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SLS1.13, DMS1.2

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Qld

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Making the school playground safer 1. On the map, write words to tell what students might do in different places. 2. Put a cross on any unsafe places. 3. With a partner, talk about why these places are unsafe and ways to make them safer.

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Places near me Indicator • Identiﬁes features of natural, new and heritage environments

Worksheet information • Discuss the differences between natural and built environments and brainstorm and list examples of each on the board. Identify any speciﬁed natural environments that are local and underline them to assist students in answering Question 1.

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• Explain that although people do not construct natural environments, they can and do inﬂuence them in many ways. Students can then consider the list of activities they wrote in Question 1 (c) and decide which, if any of them, would be bad for the natural environment.

• Before students complete Question 3, discuss the term ‘heritage’ to ensure that they understand that it means something from the past that is ‘handed down’ and is or was of some signiﬁcance. A list of local heritage buildings could be compiled and written on the board. Some parents and grandparents may be able to assist in identifying some of them.

• Students investigate their individual responses to their local environment by sketching patterns, shapes and lines they see and by feeling and making rubbings of a number of different textures.

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• Make a timeline of a local heritage building recording information such as when it was built, how it was used and successive owners. Changes to the natural environment over time could also be noted.

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Places near me 1. (a) What is the name of a natural place near where you live?

(b) Tick the things you can see there. hills

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(b) What is it used for? hospital

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(g) Do you like it? yes/no

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Favourite places Indicators • Identiﬁes living and non-living things. • Uses labels to describe a favourite place and categorises it as a natural or built environment.

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• Explain the differences between living and non-living things before taking the students into the playground to identify examples of each. These could be photographed using a digital camera, prints made, sorted, labelled and displayed on a wall chart. Students may like to add further examples of each category as labelled visual images. Encourage discussion about any examples that are more difﬁcult to categorise. • Ask if any students think the school playground is their favourite place and invite them to talk about places they like better. Each favourite place described by a student should be identiﬁed as a natural or built environment and the characteristics of each discussed. These places could be listed on the board under the two headings. • Discuss why and how their favourite places should be looked after. • Students should then complete the worksheet about their favourite place.

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Favourite places 1. My favourite place is 2. Circle the best word. (a) It is a natural or built environment. (b) I go there sometimes or often.

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Popular historical places Indicators • Identiﬁes local historical places of interest. • Surveys, records, tallies and graphs opinions about local historical places.

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• Discuss local places of historical importance and make a list. Encourage students to talk about these places and to recount any family connections or stories about them. They should be encouraged to ask family members about them and to bring in any relevant memorabilia or photos to be displayed.

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Who visited, worked or lived there.

~ What construction materials were used.

What makes it special.

• Select ﬁve of the most interesting places and list and number them on the board.

• Students should copy the list and complete Question 1, voting for their favourites by numbering their choices from 1 to 5.

• Explain how to make tally marks and why it is quicker and easier to count sets of five. Students should practise counting by fives then complete Question 2, tallying first preferences and recording total votes for each historical place.

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• Invite family members to school to share their personal experiences of these places with the class.

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Vote

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Natural beauty Indicators • Communicates ideas about an art piece. • Identiﬁes colours found in nature. • Creates a collage using rubbings of natural items.

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• Choose a painting showing a natural scene for the class to view. Examples of paintings include: – View upon the Nepean River, at the cow pasture, New South Wales by Joseph Lycett – View of Sydney Harbour showing Sydney Cove by Conrad Martens – Studley Park at sunrise [Sunrise on the Yarra] by Nicholas Chevalier • All of the above paintings can be located on the Internet using an image search. For example, use the address www.google.com, click on the ‘image’ button and enter the title. • Ask the class how they know the painting is not a photograph. How is it similar to and different from a painting? Discuss who created this piece of art and how. • Once the class has sufﬁcient time viewing and discussing the art piece, go through each of the questions in the boxes. Ensure students understand the difference between natural and built objects. Some paintings may not contain built objects and so students will leave this box blank. • Students write their ideas and answers in the boxes. Discuss their ideas before progressing on to Question 2. • Students collect natural items such as different types of leaves and bark from the school grounds. Using separate sheets of paper, ask the students to choose natural colours (i.e. different shades of greens, browns, oranges and yellow) to create rubbings of the items. Wax crayons work well. Students carefully tear the rubbings in to smaller sections (such as 2 cm x 2 cm squares) and glue them on to the worksheet to create a collage.

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Natural beauty 1. Look at the artwork. Write your ideas about it below. What type of artwork is it?

What colours are used?

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2. Make rubbings of leaves and bark. Carefully tear your rubbings in to smaller pieces and glue them below to make a collage.

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Safety rules and slogans Indicators • Matches safety rules to their environment/location. • Devises a safety slogan for the park or pool.

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• Read the rules together as a class. Students decide if the rule belongs to the park/playground or the swimming pool, then colour it appropriately. Students write an additional rule for each location. Students could work in small groups to create rules.

• Inform students that slogans are catchy phrases used by groups or people which are written to be easily remembered. Some examples include: ‘Slip, slop, slap’; ‘Safety is no accident’; ‘Be alert – don’t get hurt’ etc. Students could work in small groups to create the slogan.

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1. (a) Do not climb trees; Play away from older children; Take extra care on high equipment; Stay away from unknown dogs; Don’t walk in front of swings; Do not play on broken equipment

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• Write a number of story starters on the board relating to playground or pool accidents (either about to happen or being prevented). Students choose one and use it as the beginning of a narrative text. • Students role-play what the pool and the park would be like if there were no rules.

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Safety rules and slogans Following the rules when you are playing at the park or swimming at the local pool helps you to stay safe. 1. (a) Colour the rules which belong to the park — green. (b) Colour the rules which belong to the pool — blue.

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Making it safer Indicators • Identiﬁes safety features required for particular situations. • Writes a letter to the local council expressing the need for the construction of a safety feature.

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• It is important for children to be familiar with the variety of features that form their local area, especially those which aim to keep them safe. Fencing, pavements, road signs, cycleways, pedestrian crossings and trafﬁc lights are just some examples of safety features which children need to be able to identify and learn how to use properly and safely. • Read Question 1 to the class. Discuss each of the safety features listed to ensure understanding. Students read the text in the speech bubbles and choose which safety feature is required. • Students choose one situation and write a letter to the local council asking if a safety feature could be constructed in the area. They include why it is needed. • Discussions regarding how decisions about the local environment are made by the local council and transport authorities could precede Question 2.

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• Visit local areas and collect evidence such as photographs, sketches and data to demonstrate whether the area is safe or unsafe. Display the evidence as posters. • Students work in small groups to create lists showing how they can help themselves to stay safe: – when riding their bicycles – when crossing the road – when playing in the neighbourhood. • Create a survey for parents to identify areas near the school which require changing to make them safer. Collate the information and, as a class, write a letter to the local council requesting the area most frequently mentioned in the survey be made safer (and why).

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1.7, 2.7

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Making it safer 1. Decide how each situation could be made safer. Choose from the list below and copy your answer into the box. pedestrian crossing

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Safety on the road Indicators • Reads or follows a passage relating to safety on the road. • Answers questions to demonstrate understanding of the text.

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• Read through the text with the children following. Explain the use of speech marks and how exclamation marks and vocabulary indicate expression required when reading.

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• Discuss the rules for crossing the road safely in the absence of a pedestrian crossing. Which parts of a road are the safest to cross (e.g. good visibility)? Discuss the rules for crossing at a pedestrian crossing/traffic lights, explaining why it is important to wait for the green figure and why it can be dangerous to start crossing once it has begun to flash. • Discuss other situations such as dual use footpaths for walkers/runners and cyclists/skateboarders and the rules everyone should follow to prevent accidents. • Discuss rules that should be obeyed by adults in motorised vehicles. What can be the consequences of them ignoring these rules?

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• Act out similar scenarios involving different people and vehicles using roads and footpaths.

• Design and display posters for the safe use of different vehicles on roads and footpaths, incorporating any local government rules.

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• Design a poster to show what to do in case of an accident on a road or footpath.

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‘Just a bit of a traffic accident ... but I’m okay’, answered Dean, looking rather sheepish.

out Dean without putting his hand up. ‘That’s correct Dean, but not enough. Anyone else?’

Lisa raised her arm. ‘When you look, you must look right, then left, then right again. If nothing is coming, it’s safe to cross. But you must keep looking and listening as you cross.’

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Special places Indicators • Answers questions to complete a chart. • Writes words to describe feelings about a place.

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• Explain the difference between natural and built environments, indicating that natural environments are used to construct places which meet the needs of the people who live there. In doing this, plant and animal habitats are affected.

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• Write a list of the features of different natural environments such as the beach, a wood, a riverbank, including fauna and ﬂora that may be found there.

• Discuss favourite built environments such as parks, playgrounds, leisure centres, shopping malls, houses. What are their attractions? Are they also associated with time spent with special people?

• Discuss how the students feel about visiting these places. Write a list of words to describe these feelings.

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Special places Some places have been created by nature while others have been built to meet the needs of the people who live there. In your local area, you will find both natural and built environments. 1. Answer the questions to write about a natural and a built environment which are special to you.

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Soundscape orchestra Indicators • Listens to and describes the sounds of an environment. • Recognises and records the origin of the sound. • Chooses an appropriate instrument to copy the sound.

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• Make a list of sound description words.

• Repeat the exercise then ask students to describe their sounds.

• Make a list of speciﬁc sound words such as ringing, bleeting and chittering. What makes these sounds? • Ask what instruments can be used to replicate these sounds. Anything may be used to make these sounds, not just standard percussion instruments. • In the table, students

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• In small groups, create a soundscape with a narrative of a different place. Present to the class. Evaluate each performance based on quality of sound and how well it represents the real sound.

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• Play ‘Guess the sound’. Students make sounds from secret instruments. The rest of the class has to guess what has made the sound.

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WS1.9

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2.1, 2.3, 2.4

2.1

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Where am I? Indicator • Writes clues describing the location and special features of the city and country he or she lives in.

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NSW

WES1.9, RES1.5

ENES1

1.3, 1.4

1.4, 1.5

Qld

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PS1.4

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ENRE0101, ENWR0101, ENRE0103

SOSE0103

R1.1, R1.4, W1.1, W1.3

PS1.1, PS1.2

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Where am I? 1. Solve the ‘Where am I?’ clues. (a) I am a city.

(b) I am a country.

I am in Europe.

My capital city is Beijing.

People speak French here.

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I have a famous tower.

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Faraway places Indicator • Identiﬁes a place he or she has visited in the past. • Investigates a place he or she would like to visit. • Writes a postcard from a place he or she has investigated.

Worksheet information

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• Prior to this lesson, ask students to bring in postcards they or family members have received. Display them on a pin-up board. Display the front of some and the backs of others.

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• Begin the activity by holding a brief discussion about holidays and travelling with the class. What are some of the reasons people go on holidays? (To relax, to visit family and friends etc.) • Read Question 1 with the class and complete it together.

• Ask students to share their answers to 1(a) and record the places on the board. In question 2, students list the places from the board which interest them, then circle one of them.

• Have encyclopedias, reference books and the Internet available for the students to ﬁnd out more about the place which interests them. Alternatively, visit the library so students can view and borrow non-ﬁction books about the place they have chosen. The investigation may just involve looking at pictures and photographs of the place or it could become a research activity.

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• Choose a faraway place and make it the class theme for one week. Choose a popular recipe from the place and cook it with the class.

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English

HSIE

NSW

WES1.9, RES1.5

ENES1

1.3, 1.4

1.4, 1.5

Qld

Refer to curriculum documents <http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au>

PS1.4

Vic.

ENRE0101, ENWR0101, ENRE0103

SOSE0103

R1.1, R1.4, W1.1, W1.3

PS1.1, PS1.2

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Faraway places 1. (a) Where is the furthest place you have visited?

(b) The place you visited is:

in the town/city that you live in.

in the country that you live in.

in a different country.

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Pollution problems Indicator • Matches pollution problems with possible effects on human health and wellbeing.

Worksheet information • Pollution is a serious environmental issue which can affect a person’s health and wellbeing. Pollution can also seriously affect wildlife and damage the environment.

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• Begin the lesson by handing out butcher’s paper and markers to small groups of students. The paper has the word ‘pollution’ written in the middle. The students create a mind map showing everything they know about pollution. Each group reports back to the class (without repeating information).

• Discuss with the class that pollution can affect a person’s health. There are a number of different types of pollution. The four main types are—water, land, air and noise. All can affect our health in different ways.

• Read the sheet with the class and discuss all terms to ensure understanding. Students require a second sheet to record their columns and glue the squares onto. • Once the activity is completed, ensure students have matched the pollution problems with the heath issues associated with them. Discuss possible solutions to the pollution problems mentioned.

3. Water pollution—(b), (e), (h)

Land pollution—(d), (k), (f) Air pollution—(l), (g), (a)

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• Students work in small groups to decide the difference in air quality in a city and a small country town. They share their ideas with the class. • Visit a local lake, pond or other waterway to investigate water pollution.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NSW

PHS1.12

ESES1.6

1.6, 1.7

1.1

Qld

1.1, 1.5

1.3

Vic.

HPIP0101

SCSC0101, SCSC0102

KU 1

EB1

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Pollution problems Pollution is a serious problem which can affect our health. 1. On a separate sheet of paper, draw three columns and label them: Pollution problem

Picture

How it can affect our health

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(b)

Car exhaust fumes and factory smoke can cause people to have sore throat and eyes, asthma and allergies.

Water pollution Factories, ships and landfill release waste materials which can mix with drinking water. (e) (f)

Rats and mice breed in landfill areas which can cause health problems for humans.

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How I can help the environment? Indicators • Designs a poster to illustrate ways to care for the environment. • Explains what his or her poster represents.

Worksheet information

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• Explain that everyone has a responsibility to look after the environment. From the time each student was ﬁrst able to communicate verbally, he or she was able to help preserve it for future generations; e.g. putting rubbish in a bin.

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• Discuss reasons why it is important to look after the environment; e.g. for themselves, future generations, the plants and animals, the planet.

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• Discuss ways in which the environment is being destroyed—e.g. pollution, loss of rainforests and other natural places—why it is being done and what it means for the plants and animals living there and the long-term health of the planet. • Discuss ways in which individuals can help at home, at school and in the local environment; e.g. keeping places clean and free from rubbish and grafﬁti, planting plants appropriate to the climate, creating less pollution by sharing cars or using public transport or walking or cycling instead, and recycling materials.

• Discuss ways in which local communities can work together; e.g. adopting an area of land and keeping it free from litter and weeds, and planting trees.

• Give students time to discuss possible designs for posters to encourage people to look after the environment at home, at school and in the local community, and how communities can work together. Allow them to choose one option which they can sketch on a large sheet of paper before drawing a ﬁnal design on the activity page. • Encourage them to use keywords and phrases on their posters.

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• Create a model of a destroyed environment and display with an explanation of what has happened to it, why it has happened and who or what has suffered as a result. • Make a presentation through music and dance, illustrating the destruction of an environment and its renewal after it has been adopted by a caring community.

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HSIE

NSW

TS1.1

ENS 1

2.1, 2.3, 2.4

2.6

Qld

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PS 2.5

Vic.

ENSL0201

SOSE0203

LS 2.1

PS2.3

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How I can help the environment?

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1. Design a poster to encourage people to care for the environment.

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A place for my favourite character Indicators • Writes a description of a special place for a chosen story character. • Draws and colours a picture of this special place. • Evaluates the design of the special place by predicting a character’s response to it.

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• Read a selection of short stories or poems that indicate the required home comforts of different characters; e.g. The tale of Johnny Town-mouse and The tale of Mrs Tittlemouse by Beatrix Potter. Compare the home environments of each character. What are the main features of each environment and why, do the students think, these features are important?

• Discuss favoured environments of the students, asking them to explain what makes them special. • Discuss basic needs required by all living things. How are they different from wants? Which are essential to survival and which add comfort or pleasure to life?

• The story or poem each student chooses may be a published one or it may be one he or she has heard or made up.

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• Write a real estate ﬂyer documenting the features of a special place.

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HSIE

WS 1.9

ENS 1

2.1, 2.3, 2.4

2.4

Qld

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PS 2.1

Vic.

ENWR01201

SOSE0203

W 2.1

PS 2.2

NSW

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• Students can evaluate their character’s special place by imagining his or her ﬁrst response to it.

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A place for my favourite character 1. What is the title of your chosen story?

2. You are going to design a special place for your favourite character. What is his or her name?

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5. How do you think your character would feel when he or she saw this special place for the first time? Colour a face to show his or her feelings.

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