Enviroweek - Nature Observations

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 7 English:

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725)

Year 8 English:

• Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that raise issues, report events and advance opinions, using deliberate language and textual choices, and including digital elements as appropriate (ACELY1736)

Years 7 & 8 Visual Arts:

• Practise techniques and processes to enhance representation of ideas in their art-making (ACAVAM121)
• Present artwork demonstrating consideration of how the artwork is displayed to enhance the artist’s intention to an audience (ACAVAM122)

Years 7 & 8 Health and Physical Education:

• Plan and implement strategies for connecting to natural and built environments to promote the health and wellbeing of their communities (ACPPS078)

Year 9 English:

• Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or illustrate arguments, including texts that integrate visual, print and/or audio features (ACELY1746)

Year 10 English:

• Create sustained texts, including texts that combine specific digital or media content, for imaginative, informative, or persuasive purposes that reflect upon challenging and complex issues (ACELY1756)

Years 9 & 10 Visual Arts:

• Manipulate materials, techniques, technologies and processes to develop and represent their own artistic intentions (ACAVAM126)
• Develop and refine techniques and processes to represent ideas and subject matter (ACAVAM127)
• Plan and design artworks that represent artistic intention (ACAVAM128)
• Present ideas for displaying artworks and evaluate displays of artworks (ACAVAM129)

Years 9 & 10 Health and Physical Education:

• Plan and evaluate new and creative interventions that promote their own and others’ connection to community and natural and built environments (ACPPS097)

Syllabus Outcomes: EN4-4B, EN5-1A, VAS4.1, VAS4.4, VAS4.6, VAS5.1, PDHPE4.9, PDHPE4.14, PDHPE5.9, PDHPE5.14.

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking.

Cross-curriculum priorities: Sustainability OI.2.

• Prior to the ‘Tune In’ activity, students discuss and gather drawing materials for an outdoor sketching experience
• You may need other resources depending on the Challenge the students choose to do

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