Achievement Standard: Year 9: Students analyse the causes and effects of events and developments and make judgements about their importance. Year 10: Students analyse the causes and effects of events and developments and explain their relative importance. But what does that mean? Cause: a thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon, or condition “The cause of the accident is notContinue reading “Causes and Effects of Historical Events”
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Evolution and Persuasion
So ya’ll started talking about evolution yesterday and what an amazing concept it is…couldn’t agree more so lets roll with it hey. First up, here is the most amazing video of evolution ever; So…we all came from monkeys, which came from other stuff. Pretty simple hey. Here’s a nice image to give you a viewContinue reading “Evolution and Persuasion”
Graffiti Art
Achievement Standard: Students evaluate how representations communicate artistic intentions in artworks they make and view. They evaluate artworks and displays from different cultures, times and places. Students manipulate materials, techniques and processes to develop and refine techniques and processes to represent ideas and subject matter in their artworks. Aight, so, lets look at some Graffiti hey,Continue reading “Graffiti Art”
Designing the Break Room
Today we will be designing the build of our break room, as this includes Maths concepts, we are doing this in our Maths class! Things to consider: How long should it be? How tall should it be? How wide should it be? What shape should it be? How big should the ‘decontamination’ area be? ShouldContinue reading “Designing the Break Room”
Motives and Actions
Achievement Standard: Year 9: They explain the motives and actions of people at the time Year 10: They explain the context for people’s actions in the past Ok – so what does this even mean? What is a motive and what is an action…and what even is context? Lets define these hey: Context: the circumstancesContinue reading “Motives and Actions”
Structure
What is structure? Is it just a building? Well, it can be. But when we talk about text structure, what does that actually mean? Structure comes from the Latin word structura which means “a fitting together or building“. So basically, text structure is how we build different types of text to better achieve our purpose/better communicate. RememberContinue reading “Structure”
Art and Symbols
What is a symbol? Is it art? What do they mean and say? Well, yep, you could say symbols are a form of visual arts and that they convey a message and meaning. So, lets explore some varying ‘symbols’ and what they might mean and why… But first – your achievement standard you are covering:Continue reading “Art and Symbols”
Interest
What is interest? What do we use it for? How is it relevant to us???? Basically interest is a fee you pay to use someone else’s money. What sort of things might mean you pay (or earn) interest? Will you ever have one of these? do you know if they have interest? After pay ZipContinue reading “Interest”
Do Images Communicate?
Do images communicate? How do they do this? Why do they do this? What do they say or tell us about an artist? How can we figure this out…and probably most importantly (in my humble opinion…#nothumbleatall) why is this communication important to us. Know what? Lets dive straight in deep and just look at pictures..Continue reading “Do Images Communicate?”
What even is a text?
What even is a text? Is it a book, is it a plane, is it…just no. Text is a form of communication. Full stop. That’s it. With that in mind, the following are forms of text; Books (well der…) Song Lyrics Memes Posters Body Language Poetry Dance Media Ads Instructions and instruction manuals Game manualsContinue reading “What even is a text?”
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