TERM 4 CURRICULUM - YEAR 4 of 3/4C
Subject / Learning Area / Assessment Task / Awarded Grade
ENGLISH / Unit 7: Examining Narratives
In this unit students will be focusing on the gaps in their data throughout the year with a specific focus on Narratives / Assessment Tasks
·  Monitoring - Narrative
Unit 8: Examining persuasion in product packaging
In this unit students will understand how to use appropriate metalanguage to describe the effects of persuasive techniques used on a breakfast cereal package and report these to peers. Students will use word processing software tools to manipulate text and images to create an effective composition and write a text to promote a breakfast cereal. / Assessment Tasks
• Monitoring - Design a breakfast cereal package and present it to an audience of peers
MATHEMATICS / Unit 7:
• Fractions and decimals: count and identify equivalent fractions, locate fractions on a number line, read and write decimals, identify fractions and corresponding decimals, compare and order decimals (to hundredths).
• Chance: describe the likelihood of everyday chance events, order events on a continuum.
• Data representation and interpretation: write questions to collect data, collect and record data, display and interpret data.
• Patterns and algebra: investigate and describe number patterns, solve word problems and use equivalent multiplication and division number sentences to find unknown
quantities.
• Number and place value: calculate addition and subtraction, using a range of mental and written strategies, recall multiplication and related division facts, calculate multiplication and division, using a range of mental and written strategies, solve problems involving the four operations.
• Money and financial mathematics - calculate change to the nearest five cents, solve problems involving purchases
• Shape - measure area of shapes , compare the areas of regular and irregular shapes by informal means
• Using units of measurement (volume, time) - measure and compare volume, use am and pm notation, solve simple time problems / Assessment Tasks
Short answer questions – Deadly Decimals
Written - Data analysers
Assessment Tasks
Written – Measurement mathematical guided inquiries
SCIENCE / Unit 4: Fast Forces
In this unit, students will use games to investigate and demonstrate the direction of forces and the effect of contact and non-contact forces on objects. They will use their knowledge of forces to make predictions about games. Games will be completed safely in order to collect data so that findings can be communicated.
Students will also identify situations where science is used to ask questions or to make predictions. They will identify how science knowledge of forces helps people understand the effects of their actions. / Assessment Tasks
Portfolio - Collection of work - Science journals
GEOGRAPHY / Using places more sustainably
In this unit, students will investigate the inquiry question/s identified from the Australian Curriculum: Geography.
• How do different views about the environment influence approaches to sustainability?
• How can people use places and environments more sustainably? / Assessment Tasks
Assignment/Project - Research
THE ARTS / Making Meaning through Media
Living in a world where multimedia is commonplace requires us to make meaning from a range of texts. We need to be able to construct, interpret and make choices about the best way to communicate, given a range of purposes and audiences. Students investigate ways of expressing their ideas and feelings with words, sounds and images in an everyday medium such as a postcard, invitation or greeting card, for a real-life context. / Assessment Tasks
Students apply media languages and technologies to create a digital greeting card, invitation or postcard that presents ideas and feelings in response to a particular event, for a nominated audience.
HPE / TBA
MUSIC / Students will learn to identify binary and ternary form in music they see and hear. They will be able to recognise do pentatonic scale.
Students will continue practicing concepts from previous terms. / Assessment Tasks
·  Teacher observation and checklist
·  Performance task
·  Written test