Cards for Commonwealth Champions

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• curiosity
• digital literacy
• prototyping
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 5 English

Students can:

• explain characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text (AC9E5LY03)
• plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation, including dialogue punctuation (AC9E5LY06).

Year 6 English

Students can:

• analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text, and engage and influence audiences (AC9E6LY03)
• plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features (AC9E6LY06).

Relevant parts of Year 5 English achievement standards:Students create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing and expanding on ideas with supporting details from topics or texts.

Relevant parts of Year 6 English achievement standards: Students create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing, explaining and elaborating on relevant ideas from topics or texts.

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Literacy

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion, model information gathering and facilitate developing a class list of informational parts to include on an athlete trading card.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

• Card Collectors Activity Sheet
• Heroes of the Games Athlete Factsheets
• device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• whiteboard

These resources have been created with the support of the Australian Commonwealth Games Team, via Commonwealth Games Australia.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Team are set to take on the athletes of he world at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games from next year, and together the more than 250 athletes in green and gold aim to be the top nation at the Games in terms of gold and overall medals won, the number of medallists, and the number of sports winning medals.

You can cheer on Australia’s best across the screens of 7 and 7Plus from 23 July 2026.