Upper primary/Early secondary

The six activities below have been designed with upper primary and early secondary students in mind. Each activity is available for download as a PDF file - just click on the file name below the activity description.

Conservation and Regeneration

TASK: Students discover the environmental messages within books and transfer their understandings for action in their own communities. Conserve and Regenerate

Health and Wellbeing

TASK: To understand the concept of ‘belonging’, identify characteristics of ‘belonging’ and to develop strategies for creating healthy communities that accept and celebrate diversity. Health and Wellbeing

Exploring Genre

TASK: Students work collaboratively in small groups to analyse ‘ology’ texts to identify features of the different genres within. Exploring Genre

TASK: Students work independently and collaboratively to produce meaning from a text that will appeal to different learning styles. Exploring Genre - active reading and meaning making

Personal Relationships

TASK: Students respond to texts that explore gender roles and relationships within the home environment in 2008. Consider how these have changed over time – or have they? Personal Relationships

TASK: Students work collaboratively and independently to identify the ways in which their text uses constructions of difference to endorse or to challenge particular values or values systems. Personal Relationships - exploring difference