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Terrific Australian Topics
Integrated units on popular themes
new
Level: For use on:
Lower, Middle, Upper
In this series: 3 books + 1 x 30 minute DVD in each book
IWB, DVD, PC, MAC
Engage your students in an exciting adventure with our brand new Terrific Australian Topics resources! This series provides you with an integrated approach to the curriculum and a springboard for exploring everything Australian.
The books include 8 integrated units on popular Australian themes and a Video Library DVD, which contains short video extracts to support many of the topics. This footage can be used as a lesson starter to introduce a new topic, or during work on the topic to provide more detailed information.
Each of the 8 integrated units in the books include: 3 background notes with references and outcomes 3 10 work sheets, which can be photocopied 3 detailed teaching notes for each work sheet and a topic word list. The topics in each level are:
Lower
*Australian Animals: Marsupials
*The Meaning of Anzac Day
Volunteers in the Community
Farm Animals
*Minibeasts: Insects and Spiders
*The First Australians: Then and Now
*Australian States and Cities
*The Circus
Middle
School:
Then and Now
*Australian Animals: Reptiles
*Bush Tucker
Communication: Then and Now
*Cultures in Australia: The Vietnamese
Upper
Aboriginal Culture
*Australian Animals: Endangered, Exotic and Feral
*Identity
*Democracy in Australia
Famous Australians: Currency Lads and Lasses
Australian Inventions *Alternative Energy
*Flight in Australia *Water
*These topics include DVD footage.
Hardware Requi rements
DVD player and/or interactive whiteboard
*Inventive Australians *Rocks and Minerals
Outcomes
Students will:
Science
• follow suggestions to collect, record and present data
• identify obvious features of a variety of animals
• identify some ways in which living things depend on the environment and each other
SOSE, HSIE
• present information to explore a key idea
• select, compare and categorise relevant information
English
• use the structures and features of a report written for a particular purpose and audience
• use appropriate language structures to describe farm animals
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• Outcomes and resources - Lower level
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WORK SHEET 6
Join the father, mother and baby. ram
Family life
bull
rooster ewe hen cow chick calf lamb
Write the names for the male, female and baby animal you have selected for your report in the spaces below. Then go back to Work sheet 4 and write sentences that tell your selected animal’s male, female and baby names.
male female baby
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• Worksheet - Lower level
TOPIC WORDS Farm animals
Name: _________________________________________________________ Date: ____________________________
Write the meaning of each of these topic words on the lines. Look up the word in a dictionary if you do not know its meaning.
Word Meaning
animal behaviour chicken feather mammal mouth product udder Make short sentences using each of these words.
Word My Sentence
animal behaviour chicken feather mammal mouth product udder
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Farm animals
Name: _________________________________________________________ Date: ____________________________
Farm Animals
by Julie Bliss
LOWER PRIMARY
Learning Area Focus Science, Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE), Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE), English
Topic In this unit students will identify the characteristics and behaviours of four farm animals: chickens, cattle, sheep and goats. Students will collate facts to produce an information report about one of these animals.
Resources
Non-fiction books
Linda Bygrave, I Am a Duck, Chrysalis
Children’s Books, 2003
Michael Dugan, Cattle, The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1981
Kim Field, The Workbook Series: Beef,
Kondinin Group, 2002
Fiona Hamilton, The Workbook Series:
Wool, Kondinin Group, 1993
Diane James and Sara Lynn, On The Farm, Two-Can Publishing, 2000
SOSE
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