The Earth’s Environment - Australia and Japan - Stage 2 - Year 4 Description of Unit of Work. Students explore the climate, natural vegetation and native animals of places in Australia and Asia. They examine the importance of natural vegetation and natural resources to the environment, animals and people and learn about the ways people value environments. Outcomes: Students *examine features and characteristics of places and environments GE2-1 *describe the ways people, places and environments interact GE2-2 Differentiation: The learning will be differentiated throughout by the use of cooperative groups, the variety of tasks and their geographical skill development.

Read/view - ‘The Lion and the Mouse’ and discuss the author’s purpose, vocabulary and understanding of the text.

In this art unit about Transport students investigate details of objects, places and spaces e.g. wheels on cars It talks about significant features and relationships within their artworks referring to such things as size, scale, proportion, colour and line. Students will also experiment with the properties of different drawing, paint media and techniques in an attempt to capture likenesses of things depicted

I n this unit of work students will makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things and investigate details of objects, places and spaces in our three dimensional environment.

Bush and Sea is an art unit of work for Year 2 students. It investigates details of objects, sea creatures, places and spaces in our three dimensional environment It talks about significant features and relationships within their artworks, referring to such things as size, scale, proportion and colour.

Outcomes: A student uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division - MA2-6NA. Factor Trees -Content: Students determine ‘factors’ for a given whole number, eg the factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12 Learning Intention: I can use factor trees to find the factors for a given whole number.

Outcomes: A student uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division - MA2-6NA. Factors - Content: Students relate multiplication facts to their inverse division facts, eg 6 × 4 = 24, so 24 ÷ 6 = 4 and 24 ÷ 4 = 6 Learning Intention: I can relate multiplication facts to division facts.