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Government & Defence - POSTAL WORKERPostie for a Day Primary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy
This activity will help you see what it is like to be a "Postie". 1. Get on your bike or scooter and ride around your suburb
- how long does it take? Write down the number of hours and minutes.
3. Draw a map of your suburb on grid
paper and make it to scale (as best you can). 5. Compare with other students in your suburb - where there any differences in your observations?
Time to Deliver! It's all about Numbers! Primary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy 1. You are a postal delivery worker. You get paid per day, not by the hour so you like to get your route done as fast as possible so that you can go home as early as you can.
In your route you have 320 houses to deliver to.
You manage to do this in around 6 hours on your fast days.
Post Office Numeracy: Research Primary Middle Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy
1. You are to research one of the following different aspects of the Postal Service (see below in table) 2. Using the sites provided,
and your own knowledge, answer the given questions in as much detail as
possible. Include a specific mathematical example e.g. cost of sending
shoes, post codes and areas, statistics.
Learn Photoshop - How to Create a Postage Stamp using the 90th Birthday as inspiration! Primary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
1. Look at the following video: Learn Photoshop - How to
Create a Postage Stamp
2. Part of creating a Postage Stamp is the content or focus of the stamp - what is relevant to the different aspects of life and culture say here in Australia. In April 2016, Queen Elizabeth turned 90. 3. Look at the following stamps from Australia and the UK commemorating this event and analyse their similarities and differences. Share with a partner your thoughts.
4. Which set of stamps do you like? Why? Give reasons. 5. Using your skills in Photoshop, select at least 3 photos from each of the following to convert to stamps: 63 years in photographs; the Queen in Australia; your family or any other aspect of Australia. 6. Why did you choose these photographs? Hold an exhibition of the class' stamps.
Websites, Games and Apps
Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Intercultural Understanding Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
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