|
Retail and Hospitality - BEAUTICIAN / BEAUTY THERAPISTComparing Nail PricesPrimary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy 1. Go to your local shopping mall and count how many shops cater to beauty products and services. i. Hairdressers ii. Cosmetics iii. Nails 2. What is the percentage of these shops out of all the shops at the mall? Hint: Go and have a look at the directory! 3. Shops looking after people's nails are popping up everywhere! What is the difference between a pedicure and a manicure?4. Compare the prices and services at the nail salons in your shopping mall.
Nail Art Anyone? Primary Middle Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
1. Individually, look at the latest nail art in the following video and find suitable designs (2 or 3) to suggest to the following people: a. A young teenage b. An older teenager c. A professional d. A person who types a lot e. A person who wears a lot of red, black, green and pink.
YouTube:
10 Easy Designs
2. Make a chart of the 10 designs and work out from the number of nail polishes used and the detail of the design, "guess" the cost of each design. 3. With a partner, who will pretend to be your client - you need to "discuss" with them the cost and boldness of each design and make adjustments. Make sure you have another 1 - 2 designs ready. 4. Repeat with your partner but this time you will be the client!
Girls' Life, Boys' Life: What are the marketing messages to each? Should they be different? Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability Philosophy Cooperative Learning Activity
1. In September 2016, comedian Amy Schumer posted pictures of the covers of two US magazines – Girls’ Life and Boys’ Life – on Instagram with the caption “No.” (Source: Conversation May 25 2017)
As a class group you are going to conduct a Community of Inquiry around the following article from the Conversation May 25 2017 and investigating the marketing to both sexes. Look at the two magazine covers. Analyse. Discuss.
Read the article as a class group.
2. In pairs, write down one question for each quadrant but particularly think about the 4th quadrant "Questions for Thinking". List all the questions from the 4th quadrant and start putting the same type of questions together. 3. Select one question to discuss as a class group in detail. 4. After the class has conducted their community of inquiry, look again at the two magazine covers and ask the question -
Clipper Creations (developed by Try Engineering.org ) Primary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking
Teacher Students design and build a working model of a nail clipper. Through the process, students explore simple machine construction and the process of model making, as well as learn about simple machines – a nail clipper is an example of a first class lever. Local Copy: Full Lesson Plan (PDF)
Websites, Games & Apps
The Quest for Perfection: A WebQuest Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking |
|