After selling out in record time, our new stock has finally arrived. Several eager volunteers have been assembling the kits and we are ready go. We will start selling in the Infants Playground with Group 4 and then Group 6 (Tuesday) and Group 1 (Wednesday). There are 100 kits available for sale (same as last [...]
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Assignment: Create an advertisement for a known product (HSIE: Who will buy?)
Create an advertisement for a known product. Make sure you think about the techniques you can use to help influence your target audience.
It may be in the form of:
DVD (T.V. advertisement)
CD recording (radio advertisement)
Drama (live TV infomercial)
Powerpoint presentation (newspaper/magazine advertisement)
Poster (billboard advertisement )
You will present your advertisement with a speech to class during Week 9. Total [...]
category: HSIE
tags: Assignment, HSIE
Eggcellent Stick Insects (HSIE: Who will buy?)
All our work on our unit ‘Who will buy? and setting up our business seems to be paying off . Group 3, who were the first ready, were lucky to be the first to market. At the end of the first day they have sold 19 Kits and Group 5, who started second, squeezed in an early [...]
category: Class Pets, HSIE
tags: HSIE, Who will buy?
First Settlers’ homes: WONDERFUL, AMAZING and CREATIVE
WoW!! A class full of WONDERFUL, AMAZING and CREATIVE First Settlers’ homes made by you (with help of course). I was so impressed I am going to give you all a MERIT CERTIFICATE. You can see the houses in the gallery below.
Which house did you like and why?
[use the photo number if you don't know [...]
category: HSIE
Assignment: Homes of the First Settlers
The First Settlers’ homes were very primitive, and ranged from bough shelters with only a roof and no walls through to bush and bark huts, log cabins, slab, wattle-and-daub, thatched and sod huts. Since there was an abundant supply of timber, it was used for walls, roofs, floors, doors, windows and even chimneys.
postcard of an Australian [...]
category: HSIE
tags: Assignment, HSIE
Excursion: The Rocks Walking Tour
Today we went on an excursion to The Rocks to help us with our HSIE unit about British Colonisation. The tour began at First Fleet Park where we met our tour leader. We discussed the journey that Captain Cook took to Australia (then known as New Holland) as well as the arrival of the first [...]
category: Excursions, HSIE
Comprehension: European Settlement of Australia
Australia’s first group of European migrants arrived in January 1788. They came on a fleet consisting of two warships, three supply ships and six ships which carried the main group, almost 800 convicts. Governor Arthur Phillip was in command. When the fleet reached the planned destination of Botany Bay, Governor Phillip was disappointed to find [...]
category: HSIE
tags: British Colonisation, HSIE
Bound for Botany Bay
We were dissecting the lyrics to the song Bound for Botany Bay as an introduction to our HSIE unit on British Colonisation. We then played the song a couple of times and had a sing-along. Everyone did such a fantastic job we decided to record it straight away. You can find the song in our Podcast or [...]
category: Class Work, HSIE
Web Quest: ANZAC Day 25th April
ANZAC Day celebrated on the 25th of April is the day Australians remember those men and women who have fought and died in all wars defending Australia. The term ANZAC was the name given to the men who landed on the shores of Gallipoli (Turkey) on the morning of 25th April, 1915.
Find the answers to [...]
category: HSIE
Incursion: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Tuesday March 23rd
We will be going on a virtual excursion to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park for our H.S.I.E. unit on State and National Parks.
You will get the opportunity to observe up to five thousand live sea creatures, experience the habitats, ecosystems and behaviour of reef creatures, analyse the interactions that exist between reef creatures, appreciate [...]
category: Excursions, HSIE
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