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Journey of a lifetime: Drug Education

missgoodall — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:15:10 +0000

Your task is to complete an investigation into three drugs and record the long and short term effects of these drugs on the body template on page 53 in your ‘Journey of a Lifetime’ Booklet. You must do cigarettes and alcohol as the first two drugs and you may choose the third drug to research. Here is a page of useful websites.

Workshops: Healthy Catchments Healthy Oceans

missgoodall — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:16:16 +0000

Hi Group 3 – if you’ve been away from school, you’ve missed out on meeting student teacher Miss Wiffen who is working with our class. She is taking the class until the end of term. We are working on a project which requires you (the students) to become the teachers. As a group of four you will choose an environmental issue that effects our catchments or oceans and teach a 30 min. lesson about your issue to the rest of the class. here is a journal to help you work through this assignment Workshop Journal.

Poetry Folios

missgoodall — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:31:57 +0000

Here is your major assessment task for our poetry unit: Poetry Folio Assignment

For Group 2 this task is due on Wednesday 19th September.

For Group 5 this task is due on Tuesday 18th September

Let your imagination run wild and have fun with words! Don’t forget if you wish to enter poems in the College Poetry competition, entries must be given to me by Friday 14th September.

Textiles: Fish Mobiles

missgoodall — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:54:08 +0000

Yes Group 3, you have now all earnt your sewing machine licences! Congratulations. This means that we are ready to get our teeth into some production. To link with our work in MESH on ‘Healthy Catchments: Healthy Oceans’ we are creating fish mobiles. We will begin by investigating and desgining, then we will start sewing our fish mobiles, finally we will evaluate our work. Here is the Fish Mobile Design Brief, it contains all the instuctions (with photographs of each step) that you will need to create your first project in Textiles

Assignment: Poetry Folio

missgoodall — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:40:07 +0000

Hi Groups 2 and 5. This is you assessment task for Poetry. Click on this link to read or download the Poetry Assignment. Group 5 has already began this assignment and Group 2 will be beginning after we look at the use of ‘Sound Images’ in poetry – Alliteration, Assonance and Onomatopoeia.

Myth Draft:Practitioners

missgoodall — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:22:43 +0000

Just a reminder that the first drafts of your myths must be finished by the end of Friday’s class.

Video: The Water Cycle

missgoodall — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:41:26 +0000

On Tuesday of this week we watched a video in class titled ‘The Water Cycle’. Once you have completed the Video Questions Worksheet post a comment on this blog telling me two facts or interesting things that you can recall from the video.

Water: Web quest – Australian Environments

missgoodall — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:36:34 +0000

Hi group 3 if you have missed class this week you can have a go at this web quest at home. Read the instructions in the coloured boxes and complete the activities in the word document, save it and email to me when it is completed. Australian Environments Web Quest

Healthy Catchments Healthy Oceans

missgoodall — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:32:07 +0000

Since beginning the water unit we have learnt about catchments and drainage basins in Victoria. Last week we completed a puzzle of all the drainage basins in Victoria. We have just finished creating Overlay Maps of the Corangamite Catchment (Geelong is a part of this catchment area). If you were absent instructions on how to complete the overlay map are here: Instructions

Writing Myths and Spelling Books

missgoodall — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:21:40 +0000

This week we have begun writing our first drafts of our own myths. You should have previously planned and invented mythical characters. To get some ideas for creating your own mythical character see this web site: http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/index.html

Each student in the novice group now has their own spelling book. Today each student added words that they have trouble spelling to their spelling book. You all need to practice these words as we will have a spelling test this Thursday.