Super Tardigrade

Super Tardigrade

Students take what they’ve learned about the Tardigrade, and reimagine them in a super hero setting.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole.
  • We are learning to investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion.
  • We are learning to plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts with correct text structure, tense, language features, vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and images.
  • We are learning to plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts with correct text structure, language features and images for purpose and the audience.
  • We are learning to understand that the growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their environment.

Curriculum alignment

EN3-6B old Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies ST3-8PW-ST old Explains how energy is transformed from one form to another ST3-9PW-ST old Investigates the effects of increasing or decreasing the strength of a specific contact or non-contact force ST3-5LW-T old Explains how food and fibre are produced sustainably in managed environments for health and nutrition ST3-4LW-S old Examines how the environment affects the growth, survival and adaptation of living things ST3-2DP-T old Plans and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity ST3-1WS-S old Plans and conducts scientific investigations to answer testable questions, and collects and summarises data to communicate conclusions ST3-10ES-S old Explains regular events in the solar system and geological events on the Earth’s surface EN3-2A old Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts EN3-RECOM-01 new Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension EN3-VOCAB-01 new Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts EN3-OLC-01 new Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding EN3-CWT-01 new Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language EN3-SPELL-01 new Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words EN3-HANDW-01 new Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style EN3-HANDW-02 new Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts EN3-UARL-01 new Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts EN3-UARL-02 new Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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