Second Suite: Years 4-7
This is the second of three suites of Rich Tasks for use in the years of attendance (Years 1-10). The tasks in this suite may be enacted at any time convenient to the school in the span Years 4-7. Please note, however, that the challenge posed by each Rich Task and the standards demanded by its accompanying Grading Master were originally developed for students in Year 6.
Task descriptions, desirable features and resources
- Rich Task #1 - Travel Itineraries (new window) 301k
Students will design alternative itineraries of interest to a party comprising the student and an exchange student, and to be accompanied by an adult. They will identify a range of issues including transport options, tourist attractions and sites of historical and cultural significance. They will present costings and reasons for their choices.
- Rich Task #2 - Narrative Text: Away with Words (new window) 229k
Students will critically examine books written for emergent readers. They will determine the criteria for categorising these books and select one category for further examination. In this selected category, students will present a review of a book. Using the selected category, they will then choose an aspect of nature and create an illustrated storybook - crafted by hand and/or electronic technology - for their peers to review.
- Rich Task #3 - Personal Health Plan (new window) 294k
Students will identify and understand an aspect of their personal health and fitness and, on the basis of this, will develop and implement a plan for improving this aspect. By collecting, organising and presenting data, they will evaluate the extent to which the goals have been achieved and the contribution of factors to this improvement.
- Rich Task #4 - A Celebratory, Festive or Artistic Event or Performance (new window) 380k
Students will work within teams, in different capacities, in planning, organising, creating and performing in a celebratory, festive or artistic event or performance that takes place at or outside the school.
- Rich Task #5 - Oral Histories and Diverse and Changing Lifestyles (new window) 256k
Students will explore change in, and diversity of, twentieth century lifestyles, with particular reference to the nature of work, by recording oral histories from various members of their own community, including people in a variety of cultural groups. They will use the oral histories as the basis for a finessed electronic media presentation that portrays significant changes in work practices in the past and predicts how work practices might change in the foreseeable future.
- Rich Task #6 - Design, Make and Display a Product (new window) 263k
Students will design, or improve the design of, a purposeful product. They will make the product or a working model or prototype. As part of a public display promoting their product, they will flesh out a (restricted) marketing plan and explore the suitability of materials for mass manufacture.
- Rich Task #7 - Space Futures (new window) 239k
Students will engage with the exploration of space and with the techniques and procedures of the mathematical and physical sciences. They will produce a model of the solar system, investigate the impact of space travel on life on Earth, and produce a coherent design for an experiment to be performed on a spacecraft.
- Rich Task #7b - Alternative Space Futures (new window) 89k
Students will engage with the exploration of space and with the techniques and procedures of the mathematical and physical sciences in a different way. They will produce some other products including a coherent design for an experiment to be performed on a spacecraft.
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