Third Suite: Years 7-10
This is the third 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 7-10. 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 9.
Task descriptions, desirable features and resources
- Rich Task #1 - Science and Ethics Confer (new window) 83k
Students will identify, explore and make judgments on a biotechnological process to which there are ethical dimensions. They will identify scientific techniques used, along with significant recent contributions to the field. They will also research frameworks of ethical principles for coming to terms with an identified ethical issue or question. Using this information, they will prepare pre-conference materials for an international conference that will feature selected speakers who are leading lights in their respective fields.
- Rich Task #2 - Improving Wellbeing in the Community (new window) 244k
Students will work with a local community to develop a plan for improving an aspect of the wellbeing of this community and then enact the plan, modifying it as necessary. They will evaluate the level of success they experience in enacting their plan and, where necessary, recommend future actions.
- Rich Task #3 - The Built Environment: Designing a Structure (new window) 242k
Students will identify a client's needs and take these and other factors into account in preparing a design brief for a structure. They will design an environmentaly sensitive and aesthetic structure to fulfil this brief and communicate the design through sketches, plans and models. They will give due consideration to structure and materials, quantities and costs.
- Rich Task #4 - Australian National Identity: Influences and Perspectives (new window) 219k
Through the creation, production and presentation of a powerful, filmed documentary that incorporates information gleaned from research and interviews with people from different cultural backgrounds, students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of different influences and perspectives on "Australian national identity".
- Rich Task #5 - Personal Career Development Plan (new window) 284k
Students will undertake a career planning process. They will describe features of a range of work options and their associated expectations; assess their own existing strengths, interests, achievements and areas to be developed; identify potential careers; and produce an individual career development plan, including an up-to-date resume.
- Rich Task #6 - Opinion-making Oracy (new window) 208k
Students will make forceful speeches on an issue of international or national significance to three unlike audiences in different forums.
- Rich Task #7 - Pi in the Sky (new window) 444k
Students will demonstrate an understanding of different mathematical approaches used to frame and answer questions about astronomy asked by cultures from three different historical ages. For each culture, they will immerse themselves in one such question as well as the ways in which the culture used or developed mathematics to frame and answer the question. They will then present one of three lessons, chosen at random, to communicate the essential ideas and techniques of the mathematics of the situation.
- Rich Task #7 (alternative) - The Shape We're In (new window) 360k
Students use high mathematical skills in number, measurement and spatial concepts to investigate alternative shapes and/or dimensions for at least one container, one domestic object, one mechanical device and the structure of an object from nature. They will then adapt one of these objects, identify the purposes and consequences of the adaptation and explore the mathematics involved.
- Rich Task #7 (alternative) - The Shape of Things to come (new window) 113k
Students will use concepts and skills in mathematical sciences especially in measurement, patterning, space, statics and dynamics to investigate the structure of something from nature and changes in the shapes and properties of one mechanical and one non-mechanical man-made object. For each of the man-made objects, they will propose a likely next stage which meets an identified new purpose or situation or an additional condition, and explain the mathematics relevant to the proposal. - Rich Task #8 - International Trade (new window) 388k
Based on knowledge of the way in which international trade occurs and is reported as well as knowledge of the needs and wants of another culture, students will identify and provide a detailed analysis of an export opportunity. They will take advantage of their skills in a language other than English to present a talk and supporting literature to promote this export opportunity to different buyers and backers.
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