Year 6 2015

Year 6 Curriculum Overview
SUBJECT AREA OR KLA
C2C ENGLISH
C2C SPELLING
AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM YEAR 6
READING
DESCRIPTORS
READING STRATEGIES
ALIGNED TO C2C
UNIT
C2C MATHS
In this unit students
apply a variety of
mathematical
concepts in real-life,
life-like and purely
mathematical
situations
C2C SCIENCE
C2C HISTORY
Term 1-2
TERM 1
C2C UNIT 1
Short stories
TERM 2
C2C UNIT 2
Writing a short story
C2C UNIT 3
Examining advertising in the
media
C2C UNIT 4
Exploring news reports in
the media
TERM 3
C2C UNIT 5
Interpreting literary texts
C2C UNIT 6
Exploring literary texts by
the same author
C2C UNIT 7
Comparing texts
C2C UNIT 8
Transforming a text
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
C2C SPELLING
Words Their Way
Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings (ACELY1712)
1. bringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge to new reading tasks, selecting, evaluating and using texts for their pertinence to the task and the accuracy of their information
2. using word identification, self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies
3. using research skills including identifying research purpose, locating texts, gathering and organising information, evaluating and using information
4. identifying and using texts for a wide range of purposes, selecting texts by favourite authors and trying new ones
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (ACELY1713)
making connections between the text and students’ own experience or other texts
1. making connections between information in print and images
2. finding specific literal information
3. using prior knowledge and textual information to make inferences and predictions
4. asking and answering questions
5. finding the main idea of a text
6. summarising a text or part of a text
Activating Prior Knowledge
Activating Prior Knowledge
Summarising
Activating Prior Knowledge
Summarising
Activating Prior Knowledge
Evaluating
Activating Prior Knowledge
Making Connections
Questioning
Inferring
Evaluating
Synthesising
Synthesising
Visualising
Summarising
Evaluating
Visualising
Inferring
Inferring
Making Connections
Synthesising
PROBE DATA
Inferring
Synthesising
Synthesising
Inferring
C2C UNIT 1
C2C UNIT 2
C2C UNIT 3
C2C UNIT 4
C2C UNIT 5
C2C UNIT 6
C2C UNIT 7
C2C UNIT 8
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
MEASUREMENT AND
MEASUREMENT AND
MEASUREMENT AND
MEASUREMENT AND
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
MEASUREMENT AND
MEASUREMENT AND
GEOMETRY
GEOMETRY
GEOMETRY
GEOMETRY
STATISTICS AND
GEOMETRY
STATISTICS AND
GEOMETRY
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
PROBABILITY
NUMBER AND ALGEBRA
PROBABILITY
CHEMICAL SCIENCES
C2C UNIT 1 - Making changes
Associated Primary Connections unit – Change Detectives
Add: Sustainability
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
C2C UNIT 2 - Energy and electricity Associated Primary
Connections unit – It’s Electrifying
and Essential Energy (both units must be taught to be
aligned to the Australian Curriculum)
C2C UNIT 1
Australia as a nation - Investigating the development of the
Australian nation
C2C UNIT 2
Investigating the development of Australia as a diverse
society
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES
C2C UNIT 3 - Our changing world
Associated Primary Connections unit – Earthquake Explorers
Add: natural disasters
Suggest- plate tectonics
Term 3-4
Google Logo design T1
Bedroom Design T2
TECHNOLOGY
DANCE / DRAMA
Rock Pop Mime Show
Daniel Morecombe/EsmartLogo Design
LOTE
German
2.5 HOURS
5 HOURS
1 HOUR 45 MINUTES
C2C UNIT 2
2 HOURS/WEEK IN SEMESTER 2
Exploring Australia’s connections with other
countries
T3 Bags
T4 Fashion Parade
Visual Art
HEALTH
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
C2C UNIT 4 - Life on Earth
Associated Primary Connections unit – Marvellous Microorganisms
Add: relation of micro-organisms to all living things &
environment
MINIMUM WEEKLY TIME
ALLOCATION TO SUBJECT AREA OR
KLA
6 HOURS
2 HOURS/WEEK IN SEMESTER 1
C2C UNIT 1
Exploring a diverse world
C2C GEOGRAPHY
THE ARTS
TERM 4
MEDIA
News - Journalist
0.25 MINUTES
VISUAL ARTS
Who Influences me?? / Masterchef Audition
1 HOUR INCLUDING MUSIC LESSON
1 HOUR INCLUDING PE LESSON
German
MINIMUM CURRICULUM TIME SPENT ON SUBJECT AREAS AND KLAs
1 HOUR 30 MINUTES
21HOURS
DISCRETIONARY TIME TO SPEND ON SCHOOL BASED ACTIVITIES LIKE PARADE AND LIBRARY BORROWING
3 HOURS 10 MINUTES
Year 6 Assessment Overview
SUBJECT AREA OR KLA
TERM 1
ENGLISH ASSESSMENT
TASKS
Monitoring - Reading
comprehension - Short
stories
PHONICS and SPELLING
Words their Way Diagnostic
Assessment task
Pat-R test
READING STRATEGIES
aligned to C2C unit and
reading AC content
descriptors
TERM 2
Written – Writing a short
story
Exam/Test - Reading
comprehension
Poster/multi-modal
presentation -Multimodal
advertisement
TERM 3
Written - response to a
news report
Written - Letter to the future
TERM 4
Oral - Panel discussion
Written - Argue a point of
view
Monitoring task Transforming a text
Pat-R test
Running Record
Words their Way Diagnostic
Assessment task
PROBE
Running Record
MATHS ASSESSMENT
TASKS – C2C
Monitoring -Consultation
Monitoring - Observation
Monitoring – samples of
student work
Short answer questions –
Data decoder
Short answer questions –
Rodeo round-up
Written - Shape and
measurement mathematical
guided inquiries
Monitoring – Patterns and
rules
Short answer questions Investigating angles
Short answer questions –
Order of operations
Short answer questions –
Number properties, patterns
and computation
Monitoring – Decimals and
place value
Short answer questions –
Solving measurement
problems
Written - Is the game "dice
difference" fair?
Portfolio - Data and
measurement
mathematical guided
inquiries
MATHS ASSESSMENT
TASKS - OTHER
NCR Benchmark Term 1 Pre-Test
PAT- M Test
NCR Benchmark Term 1 PostTest
NCR Benchmark Term 2 Pre-Test
NCR Benchmark Term 2 PostTest
NCR Benchmark Term 3 Pre-Test
NCR Benchmark Term 3 PostTest
NCR Benchmark Term 4 Pre-Test
NCR Benchmark Term 4 PostTest
Pat M Test
Pat-M
SCIENCE ASSESSMENT
TASKS
Making changes
Assignment/Project - Reversible or irreversible?
Monitoring - Investigating the effect of heat on solubility
Energy and electricity
Assignment/Project - Energy and electricity
Monitoring - Investigating electrical conductors and
insulators
Monitoring - Researching energy sources
HISTORY ASSESSMENT
TASKS
Unit 1
Assignment/Project- collection of work:
Australian nation
Unit 2
Assignment/Project - Research:
Migrant experiences
GEOGRAPHY
ASSESSMENT TASKS
TECHNOLOGY
ASSESSMENT TASKS
THE ARTS ASSESSMENT
TASKS
Life on Earth
Assignment/Project – Mould bread
Monitoring - Fair test simulation
Monitoring - Plant investigation
Unit 1
Portfolio – collection of work
Unit 2
Assignment/Project - Research written report
Students Create A logo for Google
Students will design and make a bag.
Term 2 Bedroom Task - Design and price a bedroom
Fashion Parade – Melbourne Cup students must design a piece of clothing and write a script explaining their design.
Rock/Pop/Mime Show
Visual Arts Assessment Piece
Students perform with a group to a song of their choice.
They plan and present to the year level.
HEALTH ASSESSMENT
TASKS
Our changing world
Exam/Test - Natural events and
change
Monitoring - Investigate drought data
Monitoring – Investigating Indigenous oral histories of natural
disasters
Students study the Daniel Morecombe unit about safety and complete a written exam.
Media
Visual Art Assessment Piece
Students present, record and edit a news program about
natural disasters.
Students display an understanding of who influences them in society. Exam
Master chef Audition Tape