Queensland

“Choose one Australian ecosystem under real pressure — one in your own part of Australia is ideal, such as a local creek or a mangrove flat, or a well-studied one like the Great Barrier Reef, Moreton Bay seagrass or south-east Queensland koala habitat.”

Science · Year 6 · Under Pressure: When Habitat Conditions Change

“(This one is modelled on the creeks that drain to Moreton Bay in south-east Queensland, but the same chain runs in coastal cities around Australia.) Trace it as a system, sphere by sphere.”

Science · Year 7 · Trace the Water: Catchments, Cycles and a Real Investigation

“Tracing: engineers who size a stormwater drain, farmers who decide when to irrigate, and hydrologists who forecast a Brisbane River flood peak are all tracing forces and water.”

Science · Year 7 · Sort, Separate, Trace: How Scientists Make Sense of a Messy World

“Meanwhile, down the eastern side of the continent, a chain of extinct volcanoes stands up out of the landscape — the Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Wollumbin (Mount Warning) in New South Wales, the Warrumbungles, Mount Macedon in Victoria.”

Science · Year 8 · Big Forces: Rocks, Plates and a Continent That Will Not Sit Still

“… deep underground, some groundwater, such as parts of the Great Artesian Basin that sits under large areas of inland Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory, entered the ground so long ago and refills so …”

Humanities and Social Sciences · Year 7 · Renewable, Non-renewable, Continuous: Sorting Out Environmental Resources

“… back to the sand, and Dad promised to buy a proper anchor.' (B) 'Early one morning at Bribie Island, Jack and his dad dragged their dinghy down to the water.' (C) 'While they were eating breakfast on the beach, the dinghy quietly floated …”

English · Year 3 · Story Skeletons

“The northern hairy-nosed wombat, reduced to a few dozen individuals at Epping Forest; diversity lost in a crash is not recovered when numbers recover”

Science · Year 12 · From Punnett Squares to Gene Pools — and the CRISPR Question

“Read: 'At dusk, Ana and her cousin sat on the jetty at Hervey Bay, watching the pelicans.' Which question and answer is LITERAL, with the answer right there in the words?”

English · Year 3 · A Story by First Nations Creators

“Build one large, accurate model — physical, digital or drawn — that ties the entire unit together for a real catchment near you: your own creek, or the river your town sits on — the Brisbane, the Fitzroy, the Murray, the Swan, the Derwent, wherever you are.”

Science · Year 7 · Trace the Water: Catchments, Cycles and a Real Investigation

“(a) 'The bus that goes to the beach leaves at nine.' (b) 'Our neighbour, who is moving to Cairns next month, gave us her trampoline.' (c) 'Grandad, who later became the town's first vet, grew up on this farm.'”

English · Year 6 · Elaborate, Extend, Explain

“The Fitzroy catchment in central Queensland, for example, is the largest of the catchments that drain to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, covering roughly 140,000 square kilometres (check the current figure) and reaching the sea at Keppel Bay near Rockhampton.”

Humanities and Social Sciences · Year 7 · Following a Drop: How Water Connects and Changes Places

“… Sydney, the ancient granites of Western Australia, the ore bodies of Broken Hill or Mount Isa, whatever applies to you — and finish with a labelled cross-section diagram of what lies beneath your feet and how it got …”

Science · Year 8 · Big Forces: Rocks, Plates and a Continent That Will Not Sit Still

“Any complete three-point plan works — for example: Orientation: Nan's kitchen in Townsville, Zoe helping bake Pa's birthday cake.”

English · Year 3 · The Gripping Story Challenge

“… regions such as the Pilbara in Western Australia and the Bowen Basin in Queensland draw workers, and many of them work fly-in fly-out or drive-in drive-out rather than moving their home, which is one reason population figures for some …”

Humanities and Social Sciences · Year 8 · Moving Within a Country: Australia and China

“Coolangatta in Queensland and Tweed Heads in New South Wales are built right up against each other, and the border between the two states runs between them.”

Humanities and Social Sciences · Year 3 · Eight Pieces of One Map

“… differently, and one real Australian connection (Pilbara iron ore, Mount Isa copper, Weipa bauxite, Kalgoorlie gold, lithium from Western Australia). …”

Science · Year 8 · Matter's Building Blocks: Atoms, Elements and Compounds

“The largest cities that are not capitals, such as Newcastle, the Gold Coast and Wollongong, are all well under a million people, and no Australian city outside the capitals reaches a million.”

Humanities and Social Sciences · Year 8 · Where Australians Live

“… biosecurity officers at Brisbane Airport identify organisms from structural features, because a misidentified insect can cost an industry hundreds of millions; ecologists surveying a creek need to know what they are looking at before they …”

Science · Year 7 · Sort, Separate, Trace: How Scientists Make Sense of a Messy World

“Drive north from Brisbane on the Bruce Highway and a set of impossible-looking peaks stands up out of flat farmland: the Glass House Mountains.”

Humanities and Social Sciences · Year 8 · The Land Is Not Standing Still: Landforms, Landscapes and What They Are Worth

“(1) 'The Story Bridge opened in 1940.' (2) 'Winter is the only decent season in Brisbane.' (3) 'Obviously, mangoes are the greatest fruit ever grown.' (4) 'Mangoes grow on trees.' Then say WHICH WORDS made the opinions opinions.”

English · Year 4 · Persuasion Detectives

“The Great Dividing Range is being lowered right now, grain by grain, and the sand on the Sunshine Coast is on a conveyor belt north.”

Humanities and Social Sciences · Year 8 · The Land Is Not Standing Still: Landforms, Landscapes and What They Are Worth