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Primary:
aimed at students from Years 5 - 7
Middle:
aimed at students from Year 7 - 9| Job | Activities |
| Christmas
Holidays 2022-23 Naval Officer This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.  |
Word Doc:
Giving an overview of the activities as below Activity 1: Australian ‘Battleship’Primary
Years 5 - 6
Middle
Years 7 - 9In this activity, students are to create their
own game of ‘Battleship’ using the Royal Australian Navy’s own ships
after investigation. There is graphing involved. Students are to study a range of knots, work
out as a class (or family) the simplest to the hardest, select one
knot to practice; create the knot 3 times – collate all the times as
a class; graph the results and compare these results to their
earlier conjecture.
Students are to design and build their own
periscope and test it out. Activity 4: Navy Cadets: STEM Activities
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| November
2022 Bioinfomatics Scientist This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.  |
Word Doc: Giving an overview of the activities as below Activity 1: Bioinformatics: Food Detective
This lesson was developed by the University of
Edinburgh for students studying Biology in Years 8 – 12. It entails
getting the students to learn about DNA barcoding where specific DNA
sequences are used to identify different species. The big question
is whether pork sausages are 100% pork or not! Students are presented with different species
genomes. They are given the sequences and have to then match the
chemical bases (A-T or C-G) in a bracelet. This activity relies on
concentration. Activity 3:
The Koala Genome
Project – a Listening and Viewing Research Project
Middle
Years 7 – 9 This activity involves research and is suitable for Biology students. Activity 4: Cladogram including a Minion classification. This is a reasoning activity. Students are
given information and they have to work out the relationships
between the groups of animals or “things”. It is linked to an
extended unit of work on Classification (8- 12 lessons). |
| October
2022 Beekeeper This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities. Cedar & Stu Anderson - Australian inventors of Honey Flow |
Word Doc:
Giving an overview of the activities as below Activity 1: Connect Three: Honey Bees
This activity encourages creativity and
critical thinking skills. One activity out of nine is based on
Mathematics where the students are to view a video about the Waggle
Dance and create an infographic explaining the mathematics in the
video. The other eight activities are based on the Flow Hive, Bees,
Honey, Venn Diagram on the roles, creating a Tik-Tok on how Honey
Flow works. Activity 2: The
Way of the Waggle Dance Students are to use the Cornell Note-taking
Method to analyse the bees dance and share their findings with
another pair. They are to then play the “The Way of the Waggle
Dance” game created by Arizona State University and describe the
mathematics involved in the game. |
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September Holidays Special 2022 |
Word Doc: The World of Work Full Student Worksheet [30 pages] Primary
Middle
13 Activities including creating a Mural, comparing the movies Charlie & the Chocolate Factory; Movie Director; David Unaipon's Story; Inventions & Rap; Interviewing parents/carers about their job and, much more... |
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August 2022 Osteopath This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.  |
Word Doc: Giving an overview of the activities. Activity 1: The Correct or Right School Backpack? Primary
Middle
 Secondary
(9-12)Activity 2: The relationship between foot length & height (inspired by the Anatomical Record) Middle |
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July 2022 Zookeeper This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.  |
Word Doc: Giving an overview of the activities. Activity 1: Design a suitable enclosure Primary
Middle
Activity 2: Zoo Mathematics (Created by Taronga Zoo & NSW Education) Primary
Middle
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June 2022 Art Therapist This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.  |
Word Doc:
Giving an overview of the activities. Activity 1: Colouring in anybody? Primary
Activity 2: Your Self Portrait Primary
Middle
Activity 3: Stitching lives back together: an ANZAC story Middle
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| May
2022 Railway Infrastructure Worker This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.  |
Word Doc:
Giving an overview of the activities. Activity 1: Some new Australian Thomas the Tank Engine Characters Primary
Middle
Activity 2: What do you know about the innovations of rail travel? A Research Project Middle
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April 2022 Logistics Analyst This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.  |
Word Doc:
Giving an overview of the activities. Activity 1: The Geography of Mandarins: Where do they come from? Primary
Middle
Activity 2: Logistics, Global Trade & the Suez Canal Middle
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