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to General Capabilities
Literacy
Literacy is demonstrated throughout this Web Quest as students engage in a variety of
different everyday literacy activities.
This web quest provides opportunities for students to develop their literacy skills as they:
Engage in discussions and record their thinking, ideas and questions in journals,
Draw labelled diagrams and force arrow diagrams
Write written explanations of their science understandings
Complete literacy worksheets
Write and review articles
Critique games
Numeracy
This Web Quest gives students the opportunity to be engaged in tasks involving practical measurement and the collection, representation and interpretation of data from investigations. This WebQuest encourages students to develop their mathematical understanding in the following ways:
Collection and recording of data
Analysis of data and drawing of conclusions
Measuring length, distance (depending on investigation chosen)
Problem solving
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Competence
This web quest provides opportunities for students to develop their ICT skills in the following ways:
Use digital photographs / video recordings to present information and understandings research, using a variety of software to design their story book
Critical and Creative Thinking
Through this web quest students pose questions solve problems , analyse and evaluate evidence and summarise information.
Students plan and conduct practical investigations.
Students are asked to think in new ways about observations of the world around us and how forces are used. Students develop their critical and creative thinking skills in the following ways:
How to successfully achieve the outcomes required?
Trying to explain their thinking behind what happened and why?
Literacy
Literacy is demonstrated throughout this Web Quest as students engage in a variety of
different everyday literacy activities.
This web quest provides opportunities for students to develop their literacy skills as they:
Engage in discussions and record their thinking, ideas and questions in journals,
Draw labelled diagrams and force arrow diagrams
Write written explanations of their science understandings
Complete literacy worksheets
Write and review articles
Critique games
Numeracy
This Web Quest gives students the opportunity to be engaged in tasks involving practical measurement and the collection, representation and interpretation of data from investigations. This WebQuest encourages students to develop their mathematical understanding in the following ways:
Collection and recording of data
Analysis of data and drawing of conclusions
Measuring length, distance (depending on investigation chosen)
Problem solving
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Competence
This web quest provides opportunities for students to develop their ICT skills in the following ways:
Use digital photographs / video recordings to present information and understandings research, using a variety of software to design their story book
Critical and Creative Thinking
Through this web quest students pose questions solve problems , analyse and evaluate evidence and summarise information.
Students plan and conduct practical investigations.
Students are asked to think in new ways about observations of the world around us and how forces are used. Students develop their critical and creative thinking skills in the following ways:
How to successfully achieve the outcomes required?
Trying to explain their thinking behind what happened and why?
