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Complete self-contained learning activities with required resources + detailed lesson plan engaging, effective and differentiated 'Polynesian Expansion' topic designed for Yr 8 History Australian Curriculum, but suitable also for Years 9 and 10. Fully editable. Bonus and extension activities included for 1-3 lessons worth of work. Literacy, logic/thinking, working with others and a variety of real-world skills would be engaged and developed while working through these learning activities. Syllabus content focus • Roles of key groups in the ancient society in this period (such as kings, emperors, priests, merchants, craftsmen, scholars, peasants, women), including the influence of law and religion (ACDSEH044, ACDSEH041) • Students: • outline the main features of the social structures and government of the ancient society, including the role of law and religion • describe the roles of key groups in the society describe the everyday life of men, women and children in the society Outcomes- A student: • HT4-4 describes and explains the causes and effects of events and developments of past societies over time • HT4-6 uses evidence from sources to support historical narratives and explanations • HT4-7 identifies and describes different contexts, perspectives and interpretations of the past • HT4-9 uses a range of historical terms and concepts when communicating an understanding of the past • HT4-10 selects and uses appropriate oral, written, visual and digital forms to communicate about the past Related Life Skills outcomes: HTLS-2, HTLS-6, HTLS-8, HTLS-9, HTLS-11, HTLS-12, HTLS-13 Cross Curricular Links/ ‘Big Ideas’.

This pack is filled with worksheet activities covering combining like terms, expand and factorise expressions and substitution. All worksheets are differentiated to three levels, offering supported worksheets, as well as worksheets which challenge the most able students. Answer sheets are also included for all worksheets. Term Trees introduce students to like terms, the essential knowledge needed to successfully combine like terms. Combing Terms Pyramid then puts this knowledge into practice. Geometry in Algebra goes one step further, and applies combining terms knoeledge to geometry scenarios. The final combining like terms worksheet is a fun activity; a crossword. Students collect terms on a worksheet, and then put their answers in the crossword sheet. Each differentiated worksheet has the same questions, but to make things easier for some students, we have included some terms in spaces to give a clue. This is also great for self checking answers. The next two worksheets focus on expanding and factorising, and is a standard worksheet with questions on both expanding brackets and factorising terms with one set of brackets (linear equations). For the challenging questions, this includes simple quadratics with one bracket; ie x(x+2). The second of these worksheets is an unusual activity combining area of shapes as a form of setting up equations to then factorise. The final two worksheets looks at substitution. The first consists of a grid; the rows gives the value of x and y, and the columns give the expression to be substituted. The second is a collection of questions about substitution which includes an applied question to do with the temperature conversion equation and knowledge of commutative expressions. All the worksheets in this pack focus on the essential manipuation skills of algebra needed to work with algebra effectively. You may also like: Algebra Substitution Bingo Combining Like Terms Follow Me Cards Algebra Patterns and Sequences