Susan Carey shares a
Reception/Year 1 class. Susan has
planned a unit of work integrating
Magill’s Core Values and the
Essential Learnings and Key
Competencies from SACSA. Susan
has posed questions to challenge
children’s thinking.eg
“What if……...? ”
“How could…..?”
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Working in teams
Communicating ideas
Empathy with
others through
example of
animals.
Animals with
differing needs.
Protection of
environment.
Cooperation
between animals
for a purpose.
Tiddalik and Magill Core Values
Respect others
feelings and
group decisions.
Making good choices
in use of resources.
Animals showing
unique strengths.
Futures:
How can we save
water?
What if we ran
out of water?
Identity: Conflict resolution.
How would the animals have solved their
problem?
What if the animals hadn’t cooperated with
each other?
Tiddalik and
Interdependence: How were the
animals dependent on each other?
How did the animals work as a
team? What if the animals had not
worked out a solution together?
Communication: non
verbal.
What if we couldn’t speak?
Thinking:
What if everyone thought
in the same way?
English
Design and Technology.
Story Response:
Recount, story board
Make a slide show of story
Tiddalik teaches us not to be greedy.
Art
Society and
Environment
Rules for
living: Values
sharing, not
being greedy,
respecting
environment.
Colours and patterns in
the desert. Story
through art patterns.
Science
Desert frogs.
Music: Retelling story
using clapping sticks.
Martisa Mountzouris has a
Reception Year 1 class.
Martisa’s interest is in
literacy learning and Reading
Recovery. Maritsa has
focussed on Respect as a
core value and has used text
support as scaffolding for
young children’s reading and
writing integrating the
Aboriginal theme from the
Morialta experience.
Awareness of
cultural
differences.
My rights and
responsibilities.
Encouraging goal setting
and individual abilities.
Collaborative learning.
Key idea:
Care of the environment,
empathy with others.
Respecting
aboriginal culture
and the
environment.
Modelling on a text
structure using Australian
animals and Aboriginal
colours. Linking
children’s interests to
traditional culture.