Connected Classrooms
Years 7,8,9
Curriculum:
Activities are designed to address Australian Curriculum Cross Curricular Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, and Sustainability.
Each activity is designed to work for a range of year groups. Please adapt and select activities to suit your school context.
Language:
Vocabulary is sourced from an Aboriginal educator, or Indigenous language teacher working with the school. If neither is present, refer to the Noongar Boodjar Language Cultural Aboriginal Corporation at
or from
https://www.resources.wheatbeltnrm.org.au/knowledge-hub/ballardong-noongar-dictionary
EAL/D considerations in Two-way Science
• Build visual word banks wherever possible
• Encourage students to hear, say, and practice words. EAL/D students will need to oral language repetition to become confident in using new vocabulary.
• When looking at comparisons, remember to model comparative language -er, -est
• Longer, multisyllabic words cause confusion. Encourage the awareness of syllables, the root of each word and the role of affixes in scientific vocabulary.
• When writing longer observations, rhetorical conjunctions are key. Have these displayed, in use, around the classroom (e.g. As a result…)
• When asking students to produce something, always give them a sample of what you are expecting, both the structure and the tense that you expect. Different countries, use different text structures and different verb forms.
• When discussing a hypothesis, students will be using conditional verb forms. These should be modelled. If a happens, then, I think b will happen… NB – there is a great Teacher video on hypothesis in TESMC resources.
• Write key words wherever possible and explicitly mention spelling, pronunciation and a clear, simple meaning wherever possible. Recast where needed for use of this vocabulary in context.
• For more information, consult the Progress Map
https://watesol.org.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Secondary.pdf
the EAL/D Learning Area Annotations
https://docs.acara.edu.au/resources/EALD_Learning_Area_Annotations_English_Revised_06_05_12.pdf
and the EAL/D Elaborations
https://tesol.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/60238-EALD-elaborations-Full-Version-Complete-v2.pdf