Classroom Resources

Hints and useful ideas.

Hints and useful ideas.

Quantum Leaps: Units of Work

• Moving me (pdf 68kb)
• Splish splash (pdf 68kb)
• Splish splash for Stages 1-3 (pdf 116kb)
• All the fun of the fair (pdf 72kb)
• Dance detours (pdf 72 kb)
• Tap...stomp (pdf 68kb)
• Dance solutions (pdf 68kb)
• Contrast (pdf 68kb)

• Using written texts: Letters, journals, lists and posters (pdf 80kb)
• Using written texts: Extracts from newspapers (pdf 72kb)
• Using written texts: Extracts from picture books (pdf 76kb)
• Using written texts: Poems (pdf 84kb)
• Using written texts: Stories leading to performances (pdf 76kb)
• Using written texts: Random words and noises (pdf 68kb)

Staging content for K-6 Drama

• A pathway of activities along the drama K-6 journey (pdf 604kb)
• Learning in drama in Early Stage 1 (pdf 516kb)
• Learning in drama in Stage 1 (pdf 572kb)
• Learning in drama in Stage 2 (pdf 564kb)
• Learning in drama in Stage 3 (pdf 688kb)

Exploring the worlds of K-6 drama: Units of work

• Early Stage 1 Chants and Rhymes (pdf 328kb)
• Early Stage 1 Colours (pdf 300kb)
• Early Stage 1 Imagination (pdf 332kb)
• Stage 1 Magic Beach (pdf 284kb)
• Stage 1 Songs of a Summer Night (pdf 580kb)
• Stage 1 Toy world (pdf 260kb)
• Stage 2 Aboriginal Dreaming (pdf 244kb)
• Stage 2 Ancient Anna (pdf 332kb)
• Stage 2 Captured by Goblins (pdf 336kb)
• Stage 2 Creatures of the sea (pdf 460kb)
• Stage 2 A new look at Cinderella (pdf 260kb)
• Stage 2 Sport and fitness (pdf 228kb)
• Stage 2 The show (pdf 732kb)
• Stage 3 Anzac Day (pdf 276kb)
• Stage 3 Ashes remembered (pdf 216kb)
• Stage 3 Designing Kiola Park School playground (pdf 264kb)
• Stage 3 Rainforests (pdf 336kb)
• Stage 3 The Cloth of Dreams: using poetry (pdf 992kb)

• Early Stage 1 program overview (pdf 107kb)
• Early Stage 1 skill and concept development (pdf 117kb)
• Stage 1 program overview (pdf 60kb)
• Stage 1 skill and concept development (pdf 58kb)
• Stage 2 program overview (pdf 103kb)
• Stage 2 skill and concept development (pdf 105kb)
• Stage 3 program overview (pdf 57kb)
• Stage 3 skill and concept development for 'Just gimme the beat' (pdf 85kb)
• Stage 3 skill and concept development for 'The earth is our mother' (pdf 53kb)
• Early Stage 1 blank program overview (pdf 62kb)
• Stage 1 blank program overview (pdf 42kb)
• Stage 2 blank program overview (pdf 80kb)
• Stage 3 blank program overview (pdf 57kb)
• Concept based programming chart (pdf 39kb)
• Skill based programming chart (pdf 43kb)
• Thematic programming chart (pdf 46kb)
• Adapting the 'Etchings' unit (pdf 25kb)
• Adapting the 'Funge alafia' unit (pdf 16kb)

The following assessment strategies are based on music units from Vocal-Ease modules 3 & 4.

Crash

• Program overview (pdf 52kb)
• Student portfolio item (pdf 64kb)
• Teacher observation sheet (pdf 44kb)

The dinosaur bash

• Program overview (pdf 55kb)
• Peer evaluation sheet (pdf 52kb)
• Teacher observation sheet (pdf 51kb)

Lunch box rap

• Program overview (pdf 54kb)
• Student portfolio item (pdf 104kb)
• Teacher observation sheet (pdf 69kb)

Shaping Ideas
Units of Work for Stage 1

• Unit 1 People (pdf 228kb)
• Unit 2 Places and spaces (pdf 112kb)
• Unit 3 Living things (pdf 152kb)
• Unit 4 Objects (pdf 188kb)
• Unit 5 Events (pdf 148kb)

Units of Work for Stage 2

• Unit 1 People (pdf 284kb)
• Unit 2 Places and spaces (pdf 136kb)
• Unit 3 Living things (pdf 148kb)
• Unit 4 Objects (pdf 200kb)
• Unit 5 Events (pdf 280kb)

Units of Work for Stage 3

• Unit 1 People (pdf 148kb)
• Unit 2 Places and spaces (pdf 88kb)
• Unit 3 Living things (pdf 204kb)
• Unit 4 Objects (pdf 144kb)
• Unit 5 Events (pdf 152kb)

Examples of scope and sequence

• Scope and sequence: subject matter (pdf 1.9mb)
• Scope and sequence ES1 & S1: forms (pdf 1.9mb)
• Scope and sequence S2 & S3: forms (pdf 1mb)
• A sample content overview (pdf 65kb)
• Stage 3 scope and sequence (pdf 65kb)

Early Stage 1 units of work

• Unit of work - Me, myself, I (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Places in the imagination (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - No place like home (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Our animals (pdf 129kb)

Stage 1 units of work

• Unit of work - Creature feature (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - The animal in me (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Beat around the bush (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Ordinary, extraordinary (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - This sporting life (pdf 129kb)

Stage 2 units of work

• Unit of work - Transport transformations (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Still life with flowers (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Figure it out (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Artrage (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - In search of Monet (pdf 129kb)

Stage 3 units of work

• Unit of work - Mapping a place (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Evoking the environment (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Steel, stacks and steam (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - My identity (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Face it (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Still life with lute (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Significant events (pdf 129kb)
• Unit of work - Unreal (pdf 129kb)