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1.      walkabout dreaming: c2005, updated 2010 years 5-8

 

English and History teachers:

·         Do you want your students to work alone or in pairs?

·         Do you want two term’s worth of Blackline Masters?

·         Are you an upper primary or lower secondary teacher?

·         Do you want your students to work within the proposed national curriculum of History and English?

·         Do you want your students to learn about the history of indigenous Australians?

An e-book is only $52 for 230 pages of work or $80 for a hard copy. You may order an e-book now by clicking on the PayPal button, otherwise email or mail using the first page.

* Covers the following from the draft Australian Curriculum on English.

·      Years 5 & 6: under Literacy and Non-literacy: Dreaming stories

·    Multimodal focus: Aboriginal paintings: traditional forms of story paintings.

·    Year 5: achievement standard: Reading: “…Respond to a broad range of …texts in print and digital format…Interpret, critique and synthesise ideas and information in texts.”

·    Year 6: achievement standard: Listening and speaking: “…Make oral presentations.” Reading: “…Explore themes from different historical, geographical and cultural contexts…Evaluate and compare…in print and digital texts….using online research skills.

·    Covers #16 under literacy, #3&4 under literature.

 

·    Years 7 & 8: under Literacy and Non-literacy: Dreaming stories and discussions of social issues.

Multimodal focus: reference to TV documentaries e.g. First Australians on SBS.

·        Year 7: achievement standard: Listening and speaking:

“…Listen to spoken …texts…identify key information.”

Reading: “…Read…texts…that cover topics of personal, social and cultural significance….Collect information from a range of sources…”

·        Covers #8, 10 & 12 under literacy, #2&6 under literature.

·        Year 8: achievement standard: Reading: “…Students read…texts…from a range of contexts…of social and cultural significance…Locate and use relevant research from a range of sources.”

·        Covers #2, 5, 6, 7&8 under literacy, #3 under literature.

·           Covers the following from the draft Australian Curriculum on History:

Years 5-6

Curriculum focus: past and present, awareness of fair play including content about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies.

Year 5 content descriptions – focuses on colonial Australia and Federation

Focuses on the lives of people and significant events.

Knowledge and understanding: #1-2 colonial lives.

Skills: #1-10.

 Years 7-8

Curriculum focus: Australian and world history, why societies change, how people struggle for rights and freedoms.

Two historical periods:

Year 7 focuses on earliest human communities to the end of the Ancient period (60,000 BCE to c500 CE)

Year 8 focuses on history from c500 CE to the beginning of 1750.

Cross-curriculum dimensions:

Including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s cultures, spiritualities and histories, and how they contribute today.

Year 7

Knowledge and understanding: #5, 8, 17-22. Skills: #2-6, 12

Year 8

Knowledge and understanding: #14. Skills: #1-12.

 

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Walkabout Dreaming years 3-4  c2009 updated 2010

A simplified version for middle primary school students.

10 Blackline Master lessons, 64 pages in total. It also contains a picture story book list.

*utilises the Internet

Costs $11 for the e-book or $21 for a hard copy.

Follows the draft for Australian Curriculum History: for Year 3: knowledge and understanding: #1-6, skills #1-9

Year 3 achievement standard: explain historical origins and way of life.

Year 4: knowledge and understanding: #1-8, skills #1-9

Year 4 achievement standard: explain key features of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies. Identify early contacts and aspects of daily life. Show empathy and communicate this in a variety of formats…

* Follows the draft for Australian Curriculum English:

* Under Multi-modal focus: aboriginal paintings.

* Under Literature: contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature.

* Under Literacy, comprehend, interpret, create spoken, written and multimodal texts.

* Year 3 reading achievement standard: specifically reading, viewing online, navigate online and respond to a range of print and multimodal texts.

* Year 4 reading achievement standard: read, view, navigate and respond to texts with some unfamiliar ideas and information.

 

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Computer Walkabout c2006

20 weeks of lessons along with typing practice.

And a dictionary of computer and Internet terminology.

And answers to the word searches and questions.

Suitable for years 5-6

 

Draft Australian curriculum English

Year 5

Literacy #13 organising information: …Selecting a text type and reviewing writing to identify basic spelling and punctuation errors, omissions and repetitions.

#14 handwriting/word processing: …Use word processing software with fluency and accuracy, integrating various functions for efficiency.

 Writing achievement standard for Year 5: They use word processing programs fluently and accurately, integrating various functions.

 Year 6

Literacy #16 handwriting/word processing: …Use a word processing program with speed, fluency and skill…

Writing achievement standard for Year 6: …Utilise and learn functions of word processing programs according to need…

 

costs only $22 as an e-book. $44 hard copy

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Psychology Walkabout  c2005

costs only $10 as an e-book, $20 hard copy. 

It's a handy reference of commonly-confused terms compiled by the author who has a Graduate Diploma in Psychology.

It is suitable for VCE and university.

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Psychology Walkabout Year 12 Workbook c2010
costs only $12 as an e-book, $22 hard copy
Nearly 300 psychology terms to be researched using the SQ3R method.
Keywords for units 3 & 4 VCE 2010

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Sustainability in the 21st century pt 1 - c2006 - updated 2010-
costs only $45 as an e-book  or $65 hard copy.

 

Geography teachers:

 

·        Do you want a manual that covers the draft Australian curriculum on history, science and English?

 

·        Do you want your students in years 5-8 to study sustainability and consumerism?

 

·        Do you want them to look at food, water, transport, peak oil, cap and trade?

 

·        Do you want them to communicate their findings to the class and the school?

 

·        Sustainability in the 21st century part 1 could be your answer.

 

·        For $45 for the e-book or $65 plus p/h for the hard copy, you get 24 reproducible lessons plus answers and half price if you choose years 5-6 or years 7-8 lessons.

 

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·        Covers the draft Australian curriculum on history:

·        Year 7: Knowledge and understanding: #11-16 Rome. Skills: #1-12

·        Draft one on science: achievement standard for Year 6: They understand some environmental impacts of human activity…Suggest ways that humans can care for the environment.

·        Science as a human endeavour: #1-5.

Sustainability in the 21st century parts 1 & 2

 Draft Australian curriculum English 

Students explore the language features of different types of texts, including…online…texts.

 Year 5

Literacy #2: comprehension strategies: read for overall meaning, detail, sequence and relationships, taking notes and summarising.

#6: comprehension strategies: draw conclusions and make inferences.

#7: comprehension strategies: interpret and synthesis ideas and information…

#8: research skills: select texts including locating…information on the same topic…

#13: organising information. organise ideas before writing…

#16: multimodal texts: integrate written…viewing…skills and conventions in the production of multimodal texts…

 Achievement standard year 5:

Listening and speaking: give short presentations, ask questions.

Reading: read, view, navigate and respond to a broad range of …texts in print and digital formats…Interpret, critique and synthesis ideas and information in texts…supporting their responses with evidence from the text….Use a range of research strategies and resources effectively, and locate information on a topic from multiple sources…

 Year 6

Literacy #5: comprehension strategies: make inferences about attitudes, beliefs and values…attend to language and selection of detail.

#8: research skills: …use evaluative…online research skills.

#14: oral communication skills: …to whole class.

 Achievement standard year 6

Reading: …Read, review, navigate and respond to a wide variety of literacy, informative and persuasive texts that explore themes from different historical, geographical and cultural contexts. …Use evidence from literary and informative texts to develop reasoned arguments on key ideas.

…Evaluate and compare different perspectives presented in print and digital texts….Evaluate…texts to share a point of view…Use evaluative…online research skills.

 Year 7

Literacy: #5: evaluating texts: …how well the purpose of the text is met and the accuracy of contents, citing information from the text to support point of view.

#8: research skills: Collect evidence from a variety of sources including…website…and search engines.

#9: creating texts: create written, spoken and multimodal texts for imaginative, informative and persuasive purposes that contain vocabulary to show…opinions.

#10: responding to texts: select and organise subject matter and express a point of view drawing on personal knowledge, experiences, thoughts and feelings and the subject matter of texts they have…read and viewed.

#12: oral communication skills: spoken presentation

 Achievement standard for year 7

…Use design and editing software…to create particular effects in texts for a range of purposes…Plan, draft, edit and proofread for appropriateness and accuracy.

 

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·        A do-it-yourself practical manual for

 ·        Middle Years’ (years 5-7) students to 

·        Research sustainability and consumerism

 ·        looking at food, water, transport, peak oil, end of civilisations and taking action

 ·        update: cartoon video on Cap and Trade and 

·        one on bottled water. 

·        24 Blackline Master Lessons with Answers – 164 pages in total 

·        divided into Yrs 5-6, & 7-8 

·        Half may be sold separately. 

·        Utilises the Internet
 
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Growing your own c2007-  updated 2010-
costs only $35 as an e-book or $55 hard copy.
 
A do-it-yourself kit for middle years' (5-7) students to research, choose and grow their own food at home or at school or in their communities.

Covers draft Australian curriculum on science: Year 6: Science understanding

#1-2,5 and skills #8 communicating.  

see above for English years 5-7 

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Upper primary and lower secondary teachers:

·        Do you want a resource that covers the draft Australian curriculum of science and English?

·        Do you want a do-it-yourself practical manual where students research, choose and grow their own food at home or at school?

·        Do Do you want your  students to learn about Permaculture, no-dig gardens, complementary plants and flowers?y

·        Do Do you want ten reproducible lessons?

TThen Growing your own could be your answer for only $35.00 for an e-book or $55 hard copy plus $5.50 P/H

 

 

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Storyteller Walkabout    c2009 updated 2010

costs only $20 as an e-book or $30 hard copy

        A do-it-yourself practical kit for   Middle Years’ (5-7) students to learn about historical narrative,

Follows the framework of the Australian National Standards for years 5 & 7 Statements of Learning.

Students research a period of history (1946-1955) and then Write their own story

This manual has the following from the draft Australian Curriculum on English:

Year 5, under Language, it covers #10 adjectives, #8 personal pronouns, #14 visual grammar, #16 punctuation.

Under Literacy, it covers #2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 & 14. Under Literature, it covers #1, 5 & 6.

Achievement standard for Yr 5: Listening and speaking: “…Short oral presentations…” Reading: “…Respond to a broad range of …texts in print and digital format…Interpret, critique and synthesis ideas and information in texts… Writing: “ …Predict the needs of readers when organising ideas and reviewing their writing…Write clear, well-structured, cohesive texts.”

Year 6, under Language it covers #10 adverbials. Under Literacy, it covers #2, 3, 4, 6 - 8, 11, 13 - 16. Under Literature, it covers #3 engaging with texts and #4 creating.

Achievement standard for Yr 6: Listening and speaking: “…Plan, rehearse and make…oral presentation…” Reading: “…Wide variety…that explore themes from different historical… contexts… Synthesise…from several texts…using online research skills. Writing: “…Create…for a variety of purposes…informing, persuading, explaining and entertaining.”

Year 7 & 8, Literacy and non-literacy: “…Extracts from life writing (memoirs…)” + biographies and autobiographies.

Year 7, Language: #2, 7-9, 11. Literacy: #4, 8,-10, 12-15. Literature: #6 creating.

Achievement standard for Yr 7: Listening and speaking: “…Listen to texts, identify key information, describe personal experiences…Plan, revise...rehearse oral presentations…” Reading: “…Read…texts…that cover topics of personal, social and cultural significance…Collect information from a range of sources…” Writing: “…Create imaginative texts…Select relevant content to support points of view…”

Year 8, under Language: #1, 4, 8, 9  & 11 writing clear sentences.

Under Literacy: #2, 5-8, 10, 11 & 13 oral communication.

Achievement standard for Yr 8: Listening and speaking: “…Use language…to express and develop ideas….Plan, revise…rehearse oral presentations…” (same as Yr 7). Reading: “…Read…from a range of contexts…of social and cultural significance…Locate and use relevant research…(same as Yr 7). Writing: “…Plan, draft, edit and proofread for accuracy, selecting text

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Covers the draft curriculum for history for Year 6 under Knowledge and understanding: #1-7 New Australians.

Skills: #1-10.

                               Achievement standard for Year 6: sequence past events, communicate historical knowledge and understanding using narratives and descriptions.

 

 
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Style Manual C2008  updated 2010

costs only $10 as an e-book, $20 hard copy. 

Suitable for yrs 9-12 - prepares students for university.

Australian based, looks at most of the styles used in Universities around the country.

 

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The K-12 National Standards Yr 5-8, Achievement Standard (4) 

c. identify and define standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression

  Music Walkabout  C2009 updated 2010
bullet costs only $23 as an e-book, $33 hard copy
bulletfollows the guidelines for the K-12 National Standards Yrs 5-8, Achievement Standard (4)c. identify and define standard notation symbols for pitch,
rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression

 

bulletUtilises the Internet for information and music.

 

 

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Walkabout Dreaming  x 2 (product 1), Computer and Psychology Walkabout (product 2), Sustainability in the 21st century and Growing your own (product 3),  Storyteller, Style Manual and Music (product 4).

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Last modified: 09/04/10