Money, measurement and data
A balance comparison can challenge a size prediction
Compare objects using the same balance and explain what its position indicates.
Money, measurement and data
A bar graph's scale changes how height should be read
Use equal numerical steps and label what the heights or lengths represent.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
A belonging display can start with interests rather than flags
Invite self-chosen contributions about welcoming actions and interests.
Number, operations and fractions
A bigger counter does not make a bigger collection
Separate how many objects there are from how large those objects look.
Logic puzzles and game design
A blank logic-grid cell still means unresolved
Agree on a notation for confirmed and excluded pairings.
Logic puzzles and game design
A board game's ending belongs in the first draft of its rules
State exactly when play finishes and how the outcome is determined.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
A buddy activity should be a choice that can change
Make partnership optional and define the shared task clearly.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
A calm activity can be worthwhile leisure without a treatment claim
Offer predictable low-pressure choices as leisure options.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
A caption should add something the picture cannot tell you
Ask a caption to explain something useful rather than repeat what the picture already makes obvious.
Coding and computational thinking
A card machine connects an input, a rule and an output
Define a transformation and compare before-and-after values.
Logic puzzles and game design
A Carroll diagram cell combines its row and column labels
Classify using two yes-or-no properties.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A celebration can stay open as children arrive
Make the main experience available through short repeatable entry points.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A celebration invitation should explain the experience on offer
Tell participants what happens and what choices are available.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A celebration review can include mixed opinions
Ask what worked and what participants would change.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
A character silhouette should do some of the storytelling
Establish a recognisable outline before adding interior details.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
A choice board should offer different experiences
Offer activities that vary in experience rather than only theme.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
A circle on paper can suggest a three-dimensional sphere
Distinguish a flat outline from a depiction suggesting volume.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
A classroom greeting needs a verified language context
Verify wording, context and pronunciation through a suitable source.
Civics and democratic participation
A classroom message that explains representation
Ask a representative to carry a group's agreed message accurately, including a minority concern.
Civics and democratic participation
A clear petition asks for one identifiable change
Help children formulate a specific fictional request, its reason and an appropriate intended audience.
Forces, light and weather
A cloud record needs a safe viewpoint and a date
Record visible sky conditions from a safe accessible viewing place.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
A collage decision happens before the glue
Select and arrange paper pieces to communicate an idea.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
A compromise needs to address the stated needs
Compare proposals against what each participant needs from the activity.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
A conservation proposal is not yet a measured outcome
Separate a proposed action from evidence of its effect.
Civics and democratic participation
A constitution analogy, with the stopping point marked
Use a carefully limited analogy and identify why a classroom agreement is not a constitution.
Logic puzzles and game design
A cooperative puzzle needs a reason to share information
Make success depend on shared progress rather than one child's ranking.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A countdown can track shared preparation rather than people
Track preparation tasks rather than ranking participants.
Music, drama and expressive movement
A crescendo changes gradually rather than jumping suddenly
Represent a gradual increase rather than an abrupt jump.
Coding and computational thinking
A decision tree needs a path for every permitted input
Ensure each permitted case has a defined next step.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A dinosaur day can focus on clues instead of unsupported trivia
Focus on fossil clues and uncertainty rather than unsupported facts.
Space and dinosaur investigations
A dinosaur size drawing should show its scale and estimate
Read a verified measurement and apply a stated drawing scale.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
A disagreement pause needs a way back
Establish a supported way to stop and return to the issue.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
A disputed game move may reveal a missing rule
Keep discussion focused on the rule and a shared next step.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
A dry erosion model represents one part of a larger process
Observe movement of safe loose paper pieces on a tilted tray.
Logic puzzles and game design
A fair riddle survives reasonable alternative answers
Use clues that jointly identify the intended solution.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
A festival activity should connect accurately to its context
Connect the activity to accurate context and a clear learning purpose.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A festival research poster needs an authoritative starting point
Present the organiser's stated purpose with clear attribution.
Civics and democratic participation
A fictional public budget: explain what the numbers leave out
Use a small pretend budget to compare trade-offs and reasons rather than personal financial circumstances.
Design and paper engineering
A fictional toy shelter needs a doorway the user can enter
Translate a fictional user's needs into testable model features.
Space and dinosaur investigations
A field note and a fossil adventure have different jobs
Compare a factual record with a fictional narrative using the same prop.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
A field-note caption can honestly say unidentified
Include the observation's place, date and visible evidence.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
A food chain needs checked feeding relationships
Use an authoritative species account before drawing feeding relationships.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
A food-web diagram leaves most of the habitat out
Treat a simplified diagram as selected relationships.
Space and dinosaur investigations
A fossil identification needs more than a convincing shape
Distinguish a documented fossil from an ordinary object or invented replica.
Logic puzzles and game design
A four-by-four sudoku answer needs a deduction behind it
Use the stated row, column and region constraints together.
Number, operations and fractions
A fraction of a shape and a fraction of a set
State the whole clearly in both models before comparing the fraction named.
Music, drama and expressive movement
A freeze frame can be built from paper figures
Communicate a scene through an optional still arrangement.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A friendship celebration should not choose the most popular person
Recognise welcoming practices rather than selecting favourite people.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
A gap in the historical record should remain a gap
Explain what cannot be concluded from the available evidence.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
A group agreement needs actions people can recognise
Write commitments that participants can understand and review.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
A group decision check-in should make concerns expressible
Confirm that participants understand the decision and next step.
Money, measurement and data
A growing pattern has a proposed rule to test
Describe how the amount changes at each step and test the rule on another step.
Logic puzzles and game design
A hint ladder can stop before it gives away the answer
Give progressively more specific help while preserving useful thinking.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
A historical photograph is evidence of a selected view
Describe what is visible and what requires supporting information.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
A historical source may support only part of a confident claim
Compare the exact wording and scope.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
A historical timeline should say what its spacing means
Place events using checked date information and consistent intervals.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
A local place-name inquiry should not guess at a translation
Seek authoritative local guidance rather than guessing meanings.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
A local-history question should have a likely route to evidence
Narrow the topic to information accessible in reliable records.
Money, measurement and data
A location sketch does not automatically measure distance
Distinguish a location sketch from a map intended to represent proportional distances.
Coding and computational thinking
A loop repeats the whole block inside it
Replace an exactly repeated command block with a stated repeat count.
Forces, light and weather
A low ramp test with a consistent release
Test a defined ramp change and record where the object stops.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
A low-preparation invitation still needs a clear beginning
Use a clear purpose and a few suitable resources.
Design and paper engineering
A materials limit belongs in the brief from the start
Treat limits as part of the problem rather than surprise penalties.
Logic puzzles and game design
A maze branch can point towards the exit and still fail
Look ahead for connected paths and blocked branches.
Number, operations and fractions
A missing addend is a quantity to find
Make the unknown part visible as a space to be filled, not a cue to guess.
Design and paper engineering
A model route must respect the obstacle, not just reach the goal
Plan a path that respects a stated spatial constraint.
Space and dinosaur investigations
A moved fossil clue loses context if nobody records its place
Relate context to later interpretation using a paper model.
Music, drama and expressive movement
A movement sequence needs a readable order and clear cues
Arrange a short repeatable order of comfortable actions.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
A multi-session project needs a place for newcomers to enter
Divide the work into meaningful stages with visible records.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
A museum object record preserves what is known and uncertain
Use catalogue information to distinguish known facts from guesses.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A no-gift birthday acknowledgement should begin with the child's preference
Offer a service-appropriate optional recognition without cost comparisons.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
A paper sculpture's folds can help it stand
Explore three-dimensional arrangement with lightweight folded components.
Design and paper engineering
A paper tower's base deserves as much attention as its height
Compare base layouts using the same lightweight tower components.
Forces, light and weather
A paper wind indicator shows a limited relationship
Describe the indicator's movement without treating it as a calibrated weather instrument.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
A paper-use tally needs a unit everyone counts the same way
Count a defined classroom material stream before proposing a reduction.
Music, drama and expressive movement
A pitch contour can be traced without singing
Represent relative direction without requiring singing.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
A plant diary that compares the same feature over time
Compare the same observable feature over time.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
A pollinator garden plan starts with local advice
Check suitable plants and local conditions before designing a paper garden.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
A poster needs contrast where the message matters
Compare foreground and background choices against a communication purpose.
Forces, light and weather
A prediction is a reasoned idea made before the test
Write an expected result and its reason before testing.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
A prefix lesson with one clear change in meaning
Start with a small set whose word parts and meanings are appropriate for the learners.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A pretend cafe celebration can stay entirely on paper
Use role play and maths without preparing or sharing food.
Space and dinosaur investigations
A pretend fossil dig can teach documentation honestly
Label the task as a model of recording and interpretation.
Coding and computational thinking
A program test case names the starting state and expected result
Specify the input, starting state and expected result.
Design and paper engineering
A prototype log should record the moment that mattered
Include setup, result and revision evidence.
Music, drama and expressive movement
A puppet's entrance tells the audience when the character is present
Use position and timing to make the scene understandable.
Logic puzzles and game design
A puzzle can offer different starting supports
Offer different starting supports for the same thinking goal.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A puzzle celebration can offer several ways into the challenge
Offer different puzzle types and supports around voluntary participation.
Logic puzzles and game design
A puzzle reflection should name the move that helped
Describe a specific approach and its effect.
Money, measurement and data
A quarter turn needs a starting direction and a turning direction
Keep a visible reference direction while turning an object through one of four equal rotations.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A reading recommendation should explain a particular appeal
Explain why a book or invented story might interest a reader.
Number, operations and fractions
A remainder needs an interpretation, not just a label
Keep leftover units visible and explain what they mean in the particular problem.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
A remembered detail can be valued and still need checking
Attribute recollections and compare them with other records.
Coding and computational thinking
A repeat-until process needs a reachable stop condition
Define when repetition ends and ensure the condition can be reached.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
A resource shortlist should explain why each item is there
Select a few useful resources and explain their roles.
Music, drama and expressive movement
A rest is a planned interval, not a lost beat
Represent a silent interval as part of the pattern.
Design and paper engineering
A rough prototype can answer an important question
Explain what a rough model is intended to test.
Forces, light and weather
A science conclusion should point back to the trials
Tie the conclusion to the actual trials and conditions.
Forces, light and weather
A scientific diagram should help another person understand the setup
Draw the important parts of a setup so another person can understand it.
Logic puzzles and game design
A score needs a unit and a recording moment
Define what earns a point and when it is recorded.
Coding and computational thinking
A sequence follows order; a conditional selects an action
Show how a condition changes which command runs.
Civics and democratic participation
A service map for state and territory responsibilities
Focus on a checked example and the evidence used to connect it to an authority.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
A setting that changes what can happen
Explore how a location or time changes what a character can do.
Forces, light and weather
A shadow does not show everything about its object
Compare the physical object with its changing projected outline.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
A shared project benefits from one small decision before making
Agree on a shared goal and first action.
Coding and computational thinking
A shorter symbol message must still be recoverable
Represent repetition compactly and check that it can be reconstructed.
Design and paper engineering
A sign stand must work from the intended viewing positions
Test whether the message remains visible from intended places.
Money, measurement and data
A small survey starts with an answerable question
State one clear question, gather willing responses and keep the answer categories understandable.
Space and dinosaur investigations
A solar system model needs a scale statement
Identify which feature a model represents proportionally.
Logic puzzles and game design
A solution explanation should let the reader verify it
Show why the answer satisfies the constraints.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A space celebration can show where fact ends and invention begins
Pair imaginative activities with clearly identified verified information.
Space and dinosaur investigations
A space fact may describe a plan rather than a completed mission
Compare the claim, source and publication context.
Logic puzzles and game design
A spot-the-difference puzzle needs intentional, checkable changes
Make intentional changes and document them before sharing.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
A story title should create the right expectation
Choose a title that gives a reader a meaningful clue without explaining every event.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
A suggestion-box idea needs a workable first version
Clarify the idea and test a manageable version.
Coding and computational thinking
A symbol message is readable only with its key
Distinguish the message from the shared mapping used to read it.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A teddy-bear story can begin with a provided paper character
Use paper characters so participation does not depend on possessions.
Money, measurement and data
A ten-dollar pretend budget with choices to explain
Compare a proposed order with an explicit fictional limit and explain the remaining amount.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
A thank-you message is stronger when it names the action
Connect thanks to something the recipient actually did.
Money, measurement and data
A tie is a result; a missing response is not a preference
Record equal counts and absent responses without inventing a preference.
Civics and democratic participation
A tied class vote needs a plan, not a last-minute exception
Agree on a transparent classroom tie procedure before voting, and identify it as a classroom rule.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
A torn edge and a cut edge can suggest different things
Compare edge effects as deliberate visual choices.
Logic puzzles and game design
A treasure clue should work for someone who did not write it
Give enough information for the intended location without unsafe searching.
Coding and computational thinking
A turn changes heading without moving to another square
Define a turn as changing heading on the same square.
Civics and democratic participation
A two-option classroom vote: count first, then check the majority
Explain one low-stakes voting model, its counting rule and a tie procedure before ballots are marked.
Design and paper engineering
A useful design brief says who needs what
Define a user, purpose and constraint before making.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
A useful educator reflection ends with something to try
Connect evidence, interpretation and a specific next action.
Music, drama and expressive movement
A useful prop clarifies something in the scene
Select objects that clarify the action.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
A visible turn system can reduce the race for materials
Make the order understandable and revisable.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
A visual instruction card should reveal the next action
Show the next action with concise words and relevant images.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
A vocabulary example is stronger with a non-example
Explain a word plainly, then compare examples and non-examples in a meaningful context.
Forces, light and weather
A volume comparison can stay comfortably quiet
Compare gentler and firmer actions within a comfortable listening level.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
A water-saving garden model needs assumptions on the page
Connect design choices to a defined fictional watering constraint.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
A wet-weather alternative should preserve the reason for the activity
Preserve the intended experience while changing location and materials.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
A wildlife observation code people can follow
Turn care principles into observable group actions.
Forces, light and weather
Absorbency: equal paper sizes and equal water amounts
Keep water amounts and paper sizes consistent in a small tabletop test.
Number, operations and fractions
Addition starts with two quantities we can identify
Record the two starting groups and the resulting whole with a matching equation.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
After an accidental disruption, ask what repair would help
Identify the effect and a practical next action.
Civics and democratic participation
After the classroom election, review more than who won
Review access, instructions and checking procedures instead of praising only the winning option.
Design and paper engineering
An accessible playground model needs a specific access question
Start with a specific participation need rather than adding a symbol afterward.
Logic puzzles and game design
An ambiguous drawing can invite several good interpretations
Explore multiple interpretations of an underspecified prompt.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
An animal celebration can use imagination without bringing animals onsite
Use fictional creatures or verified animal information without bringing animals onsite.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
An appreciation card can go to a supportive person the child chooses
Let children choose a recipient without assuming family structure.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
An appreciation wall needs permission as well as kind words
Invite specific messages and review display choices.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
An arrival activity should make sense without the opening talk
Create a clear independent entry without requiring the opening explanation.
Coding and computational thinking
An arrow route is an algorithm only when the commands are clear
Represent an ordered set of instructions for a defined task.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
An art celebration can leave room for genuinely different outcomes
Invite original choices and maker explanations.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
An art revision needs a goal the maker recognises
Change an image to address an identified intention.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
An artist statement belongs to the maker
Let the maker explain intention and choices in their own way.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
An end-of-program memory page should belong to the contributor
Invite selected activity memories without requiring personal disclosure.
Design and paper engineering
An engineering sketch should communicate how the model works
Show the features needed to understand a proposed solution.
Music, drama and expressive movement
An ensemble can value the repeating part and the changing part
Discuss how contributions fit together without ranking performers.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
An environmental claim needs a comparison you can inspect
Ask what evidence and scope support a simple sustainability statement.
Number, operations and fractions
An estimate should have a reason behind it
Make an estimate before counting and compare it with the checked quantity.
Coding and computational thinking
An event starts an agreed response
Define a trigger that causes an agreed action.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
An exclusion discussion works better with invented characters
Identify barriers and propose changes without inviting public accusations.
Space and dinosaur investigations
An extinction discussion needs an authoritative account to work from
Use an authoritative explanation and distinguish evidence from speculation.
Logic puzzles and game design
An I-spy search can be systematic without being timed
Use a repeatable search pattern to reduce missed areas.
Coding and computational thinking
An if instruction needs a condition the reader can test
Define a test that selects an action.
Music, drama and expressive movement
An imagined instrument should explain how sound is meant to arise
Connect an invented design with a proposed sound-making action.
Space and dinosaur investigations
An incomplete skeleton can support several reconstructions
Explain how limited evidence permits more than one interpretation.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
An inference needs a clue you can point to
Separate the words provided from an interpretation that those words may support.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
An information-desk helper needs a small supported role
Let children help explain the activity options through a supported voluntary role.
Music, drama and expressive movement
An invented call and response needs an agreed relationship
Let one short pattern invite a defined response.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
An invitation to play should leave room for no
Practise an optional invitation with a clear way to accept or decline.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
An observed interest can suggest an offer, not a permanent profile
Explain how the evidence suggests a useful next opportunity.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
An open drawing prompt should leave several routes open
Offer a starting point that permits genuinely different outcomes.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
An opposite depends on which meaning you mean
Choose a meaningful contrast and discuss whether the pair fits the particular context.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
An oral-history interview begins with choice and permission
Ask open questions and allow the interviewee to decline.
Space and dinosaur investigations
An orbit model shows a relationship, not every force
Represent motion around another body without claiming realistic speeds or distances.
Coding and computational thinking
An ordered card set permits a different search strategy
Use an ordered card set to explain why ordering changes available strategies.
Music, drama and expressive movement
An ostinato gives another musical layer something steady to work with
Keep one short musical pattern repeating beneath another contribution.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
An unanswered nature question can improve the next visit
Record useful observations and questions even when identification remains unresolved.
Forces, light and weather
An unexpected result belongs in the investigation log
Treat a surprising result as information to examine.
Design and paper engineering
An unfinished model can still show engineering learning
Identify what testing changed in the group's understanding.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Animal adaptations: explain the feature without inventing an intention
Link verified features to possible functions using an authoritative account.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
Appreciate a community helper by learning about the work
Explore the work through verified descriptions and respectful questions.
Money, measurement and data
Area counts the equal units covering a region
Cover a defined region without gaps or overlaps and count the equal covering units.
Number, operations and fractions
Arrays: see the repeated grouping in rows and columns
Make the row and column structure visible and connect it to the total.
Money, measurement and data
Ask a graph a question its data can answer
Ask a precise question and use the scale to justify the response.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Ask a question that belongs to this particular text
Build a question around a specific uncertainty rather than a broad request to explain everything.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Ask for the particular material and agree what happens next
Practise asking for a specific item without grabbing.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Ask whose stories the resource actually includes
Notice representation and seek suitable additional perspectives.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Asking an educator for help can be a specific task skill
Identify when and how to ask an available educator for assistance.
Design and paper engineering
Assembly order can make a later join possible or impossible
Identify dependencies before joining parts.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
At pickup, let the child choose what happens to the work
Make it easy to take or save work without losing its context.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Attribution keeps a cultural source connected to its creator
Name the creator and context alongside the information used.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Audience participation should come with a comfortable way to pass
Offer predictable ways to contribute or observe.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Background details should support the main subject
Select details that contribute to the image's purpose.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Beat stays steady while a rhythm changes above it
Compare a steady pulse with a changing pattern placed over it.
Number, operations and fractions
Before and after: locate the reference number first
Connect adjacent positions with the counting sequence using a clearly labelled line.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Body fossil or trace fossil: what evidence is preserved?
Sort verified examples by the kind of evidence they preserve.
Coding and computational thinking
Break a robot delivery task into connected subtasks
Break a broad task into manageable parts with clear outputs.
Design and paper engineering
Bridge comparisons need the span written into the record
Keep the span fixed when evaluating alternative deck designs.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Build a classroom exhibition around a question
Select items that contribute evidence to one inquiry.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Build a habitat around an imaginary creature's stated needs
Connect a proposed habitat feature with the creature's stated needs.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Build a weather soundscape from an imagined sequence
Choose sounds to represent an imagined scene.
Design and paper engineering
Build the stand for the card it must actually hold
Match the support to the actual display task.
Civics and democratic participation
Can a newcomer use this public-service notice?
Ask whether a fictional notice makes its purpose and next action clear to different readers.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Can another group read your picture score?
Use a clear key and consistent spacing.
Logic puzzles and game design
Can these game rules send a player around forever?
Check whether a repeated rule can prevent progress.
Money, measurement and data
Capacity: use the same measuring cup for both containers
Count equal full measures into suitable containers while distinguishing capacity from appearance.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Celebrate a shared outcome by noticing different contributions
Recognise contributions to the group task.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
Celebrate books through stories rather than purchased costumes
Focus on stories and reader choices using ordinary materials.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Challenge the proposal rather than the person
Separate a proposal from the person offering it.
Logic puzzles and game design
Chance and choice contribute different things to a game
Identify which outcomes depend on random events and which on decisions.
Money, measurement and data
Chance trials do not owe us a balanced next result
Record repeated outcomes and discuss variation without treating short runs as predictions.
Forces, light and weather
Change a paper strip's free length and compare its pitch
Compare a controlled change to a vibrating paper strip.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Change the scale and the ordinary object becomes a story
Change relative size deliberately for storytelling.
Civics and democratic participation
Check a civic claim beyond its confident headline
Identify exactly what a statement claims and what official source could confirm or qualify it.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
Check the year before adding an event date to the program
Verify the date through the organising body's current information.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Child voice should be able to change the activity plan
Ask specific optional questions and show how feedback informs changes.
Design and paper engineering
Choose a material for its job, not a general strength ranking
Evaluate suitability against the specific use.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Choose a puppet mechanism that supports the intended action
Choose a movement that supports the character's action.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Choose a short activity with somewhere useful to stop
Choose a task with a useful stopping point and simple storage.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
Choose an awareness day because it opens a useful question
Begin with a useful question rather than adding a themed worksheet alone.
Design and paper engineering
Choose success criteria another group could apply
Turn a broad wish into an observable check.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Choose the printable by what children will actually do
Match the sheet's actual task to the intended experience.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Combine two ideas into an object with an imagined use
Combine features to create a clearly fictional design.
Civics and democratic participation
Community consultation that leaves a way to answer quietly
Make it possible to contribute ideas through several formats before summarising a fictional community's views.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Compare cultural accounts without ranking the people behind them
Compare specified features in their contexts.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Compare environmental solutions against the same constraints
Compare proposals against the same fictional constraints.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Compare leaf features without needing a plant name
Describe observable similarities and differences using fallen leaves or images.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Compare the planned opportunity with the participation that occurred
Compare the intended opportunities with what participants chose.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Compose within four beats, including the quiet spaces
Compose a short pattern using a defined beat frame.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Compost sorting depends on the system being discussed
Sort paper examples using the actual system's instructions.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Compound words: do the parts form a meaningful whole?
Explore how two familiar words can combine, then check the meaning of the resulting word.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Constellation lines belong to the chart
Distinguish an apparent pattern from a physical drawing between stars.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Context helps with meaning; it should not replace decoding
Use surrounding meaning to discuss vocabulary while keeping decoding instruction separate.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Conversation cards should allow a comfortable pass
Provide low-pressure ways to share interests.
Money, measurement and data
Count up to find change, then verify the difference
Connect the price to the payment through visible additions and check the difference.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Count what was observed without claiming a complete inventory
Count observed kinds within a stated area and time.
Number, operations and fractions
Counting on without losing track of the added amount
Keep the first quantity in mind and count the added units from that point.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
Credit the celebration display through the agreed privacy process
Identify work accurately using the service's privacy arrangements.
Logic puzzles and game design
Cross out a logic possibility only when a clue allows it
Rule out possibilities only when a clue justifies it.
Logic puzzles and game design
Crossword crossings are evidence for checking an answer
Use both clues and shared letters.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Culture is more than a collection of fixed symbols
Compare contextualised contemporary examples without reducing people to symbols.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Curate a small art display without making it a ranking
Arrange works with consent and enough context for viewers.
Coding and computational thinking
Debug the first wrong state, not just the final destination
Locate the first mismatch between intended and actual position.
Coding and computational thinking
Debugging language should identify the mismatch
Describe the mismatch and command rather than labelling the programmer.
Design and paper engineering
Decoration can also have a function
Describe what each feature contributes to the brief.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Design a cover for the book you invented
Communicate the invented book's premise to a prospective reader.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Design a fictional Moon base and label the assumptions
Solve an invented design problem while labelling unverified features as imagination.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Design an imaginary dinosaur whose features fit its story
Connect invented anatomy with an explicitly fictional lifestyle.
Design and paper engineering
Design the model's pack-down as well as its construction
Consider how a model can be taken apart safely for reuse.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Different historical accounts can reflect different access to events
Compare what specific people reported without claiming access to all experiences.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Different supports can lead into the same challenge
Keep the central problem shared while varying supports.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Dinosaur diet claims should bring their evidence with them
Compare the evidence given for a diet interpretation.
Civics and democratic participation
Disagree about a community proposal without judging its supporters
Separate criticism of a proposal from criticism of the person offering it.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Discuss a kind action without labelling the whole person
Examine actions and effects without labelling children as good or bad.
Number, operations and fractions
Division by grouping: how many groups can we make?
Ask how many complete equal groups can be formed, rather than how many each recipient receives.
Number, operations and fractions
Division by sharing: how many does each recipient get?
Divide a collection into a stated number of equal groups and check every group.
Number, operations and fractions
Doubles facts with two equal groups underneath them
Build equal groups and explain what is being doubled.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Dramatic tension can be a gentle unanswered question
Give the audience a reason to wonder what happens next.
Civics and democratic participation
Draw an electorate without turning the map into a fact claim
Treat an electorate as a representation context, not simply a place with one shared opinion.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Draw texture with marks that respond to the reference
Create marks that suggest a surface's appearance.
Money, measurement and data
Elapsed time across the hour: draw the interval
Represent the start, finish and intervals between them rather than subtracting clock digits blindly.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Emphasis can come from removing competition
Make the main idea stand out through position, scale or contrast.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Encouragement can describe a strategy without promising success
Notice a specific action rather than promising success.
Music, drama and expressive movement
End the music with a cue everyone can follow
Make stopping coordinated and predictable.
Number, operations and fractions
Equal groups give multiplication a structure
Identify the number of groups and the quantity within each before finding the total.
Logic puzzles and game design
Equal scores do not prove a game was fair
Evaluate rules and opportunities separately from who wins.
Number, operations and fractions
Equivalent fractions: match the amount before the labels
Compare portions of the same-sized whole before drawing conclusions from the labels.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Explain a game so the newcomer can try the next turn
Give a newcomer the information needed to participate.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Explore a curved or zigzag pathway with a token
Explore straight, curved and zigzag routes within an agreed space.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Explore dynamics inside an agreed quiet range
Explore relative volume within an agreed comfortable range.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Familiar dinosaurs did not necessarily live at the same time
Place verified examples on a sourced timeline.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Faster does not have to mean louder
Compare speed while maintaining a comfortable volume.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Feedback a young writer can use in the next draft
Give the reader one useful question and leave the author a genuine choice about a change.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Feedback between partners should name a change they can make
Link feedback to the task and offer a possible next action.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Feedback on a drawing can begin with a precise observation
Describe visible choices and ask a useful question.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Fiction and information texts: look beyond the cover
Ask what the text is trying to do and how a particular claim should be checked.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Fictional faces can invite more than one interpretation
Explore visual storytelling without asking children to disclose feelings.
Design and paper engineering
Find the component that changed during the model test
Record where performance changed instead of calling the whole design bad.
Forces, light and weather
Find the moving part in a sound-making object
Link a sound-making action with an observable vibrating part.
Money, measurement and data
Find the whole repeating unit, not just the next item
Identify the complete repeating part before extending the sequence.
Logic puzzles and game design
Finding one puzzle answer does not prove there is only one
Search for alternative valid answers after finding the first.
Coding and computational thinking
Five squares can require only four moves
Compare required moves with squares counted.
Forces, light and weather
Five weather records describe five recorded days
Use dated observations to describe patterns without declaring a climate trend.
Forces, light and weather
Flat paper and crumpled paper: ask what changed
Separate observations about falling from claims about weight alone.
Forces, light and weather
Floating predictions are ideas that can be revised
Compare an initial idea with observations of safe large objects in a shallow tray.
Design and paper engineering
Folded or flat paper bridge? Keep the span unchanged
Test how a specified fold changes a small model's performance.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Follow one place through a day-and-night globe model
Relate illumination to a rotating model rather than a moving Sun story.
Coding and computational thinking
Forward means the way the robot faces
Separate the token's direction from the reader's viewpoint.
Forces, light and weather
Friction on two surfaces: watch the stopping position
Compare motion over surfaces using the same object and starting procedure.
Civics and democratic participation
From bill to law: keep the missing stages in view
Use a checked federal sequencing resource and explain that it simplifies a more detailed parliamentary process.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
Give a kindness-day idea a practical next action
Link discussion to one optional observable contribution.
Logic puzzles and game design
Give a new reader the game rules and watch where they pause
Observe what an unfamiliar reader can do without extra explanation.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Give the fictional character a goal it can act on
Give the character a concrete purpose that guides actions.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Give the instructions to someone who has not seen the task
Test whether another person can carry out a short paper-based task using the instructions provided.
Coding and computational thinking
Go over there: let two readers expose the missing instruction
Show where a command lacks enough detail for consistent execution.
Coding and computational thinking
Grid coordinates work when everyone reads them in the same order
Define a coordinate convention before sending positions.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Group roles can change as the project changes
Distribute useful contributions without fixing children into labels.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Headings are promises about what comes next
Show how a heading helps a reader predict and locate information.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Help a newcomer ask about joining the activity
Give a concrete phrase and a way to understand the activity.
Music, drama and expressive movement
High and low are relative to a chosen movement reference
Compare high, middle and low positions using comfortable gestures.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Historical change and continuity can appear in the same comparison
Identify what changed and what remained similar within a stated period.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Historical maps need their date, key and purpose
Read date, legend and intended purpose before making comparisons.
Design and paper engineering
How much does the paper container hold under this test?
Define the model's intended contents before comparing designs.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Individual or collaborative? Match the arrangement to the task
Match the social arrangement to the task and participant preferences.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Insect watching without collecting a specimen
Record visible features while leaving animals and habitat undisturbed.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Invent a border from your own repeating unit
Build a visual unit and repeat it intentionally.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Invent a planet without announcing a discovery
Separate invented features from the verified concepts that inspired them.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Invent character names that repeat a starting sound
Explore repeated initial sounds in short phrases while keeping meaning and pronunciation clear.
Civics and democratic participation
Is that classroom rule fair? Start with who can join in
Start with a rule's purpose and its effect on participation, rather than a popularity contest.
Forces, light and weather
It turned left is an observation; why it turned is another question
Record what was noticed separately from an idea about why it happened.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
Keep the reusable activity separate from its event date
Save clear instructions and useful adaptations after review.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Label a classroom museum invention as an invention
Separate invented exhibit details from sourced historical context.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Language sharing should be volunteered, not assigned
Discuss language information from authorised sources and voluntary contributions.
Design and paper engineering
Leave the next maker a usable engineering handover
Make the next action clear when another child continues a model.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Leaving a shared activity can include a useful handover
Make leaving understandable while preserving the remaining group's plan.
Logic puzzles and game design
Left of the tower needs an agreed map viewpoint
Establish whose left and right the clue uses.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Less packaging or more protection? Compare both requirements
Evaluate material use alongside protection in an invented design task.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Less printing can work when the shared information stays accessible
Keep shared instructions reusable and print only what participants need.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Let a line suggest the kind of landscape you imagine
Explore how different marks can suggest movement or mood.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Let children tell the story before they write it
Let a learner tell a short original story twice, improving one detail before recording it.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Let one fossil clue lead to a focused research question
Choose an answerable question tied to available evidence.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Let the child's question shape the next investigation
Use the question to choose a focused next investigation.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Light and dark values with one pencil
Compare light and dark marks without requiring colour differences.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Listen for syllables before counting letters
Focus on the spoken word and model a deliberate listening task before recording anything.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Living, once-living or never-living? Test the movement shortcut
Discuss evidence and categories rather than sorting by movement alone.
Civics and democratic participation
Local councils: questions children can investigate nearby
Begin with a locally relevant service and a question a resident might reasonably ask.
Coding and computational thinking
Look for exact repeated structure before writing a loop
Identify repeated structure that can simplify instructions.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Loose paper parts can support several constructions
Offer adaptable components with a clear suitable making space.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Low participation is information about the invitation
Observe the response and offer another worthwhile option.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Make a classroom environmental action observable
Specify an observable action and a way to review it.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
Make an environmental observance relevant to the actual locality
Choose an issue that can be investigated through available local information.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Make dialogue reveal the story's problem
Give each speaker a reason to speak rather than adding empty conversation.
Number, operations and fractions
Make ten and keep the leftover in sight
Move part of one group to complete ten while preserving the total quantity.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Map a garden observation point so someone can return to it
Show where observations happened so another visit can use the same locations.
Money, measurement and data
Map directions work better with a shared viewpoint
Agree on the frame of reference before giving location instructions.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Material choices should respond to the task's actual access demands
Consider grip, visibility, reach and response options in the actual task.
Money, measurement and data
Measure a length with units that stay the same
Compare lengths using repeated equal units placed without gaps or overlaps.
Logic puzzles and game design
Memory-game strategies can be discussed without a speed ranking
Explore ways to track positions through repeated observation.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Mime makes an imaginary object's properties visible
Make actions consistent with the object's invented properties.
Design and paper engineering
Model dimensions need room for the intended action
Derive measurements from the object the model must hold.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Moon images: record the changing view, not a changing shape
Describe changing appearance using verified dated images.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Moon phases are not ordinary Earth-shadow events
Use authoritative diagrams to compare the two explanations.
Forces, light and weather
Move the torch and follow the shadow's direction
Relate a shadow's location to the light source.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Multilingual storytelling with room for the storyteller's choices
Invite language choices that help the storyteller communicate while retaining the right to decline a translator role.
Coding and computational thinking
Name a command block so it can be reused consistently
Name a sequence once and use that name in a larger program.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Narration describes the event; character speech happens inside it
Separate describing events from speaking within the scene.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Native to where? Keep the location in the species claim
Use a reliable location-specific source rather than judging appearance.
Number, operations and fractions
Near doubles: find the one-unit adjustment
Start from a known double and show the one-unit difference in the actual problem.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Near-synonyms are not interchangeable everywhere
Compare where two related words fit and where their meanings or tone differ.
Money, measurement and data
Needs and wants make more sense inside a situation
Evaluate a choice in relation to the fictional character's situation rather than judging families.
Forces, light and weather
Not every metal-looking sample is attracted to a magnet
Test safe objects instead of assuming all metals respond alike.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Notice litter patterns without handling the rubbish
Map visible litter from safe photographs or a supervised viewpoint.
Number, operations and fractions
Number-line addition: what does each jump mean?
Connect the starting value, jump size and landing value with a concrete model.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Observational drawing starts with noticing selected details
Look for specific features rather than aiming at photographic perfection.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Ocean habitat images need their captions
Compare documented features of two habitats.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
One cultural account speaks from a particular perspective
Distinguish a specific perspective from a claim about everyone.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
One event, two narrators, different information
Compare what each narrator could know, notice or misunderstand about one shared event.
Number, operations and fractions
One object, one count: make the correspondence visible
Match one spoken number to one object and make the counting path visible.
Number, operations and fractions
One part-whole model connects addition and subtraction
Use one collection to show related relationships rather than unrelated number facts.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
One shared tool need not stop the whole project
Plan parallel contributions so a shared tool does not leave most partners waiting.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
One testable question can anchor a science celebration
Choose a small investigation with a clear variable and safe method.
Logic puzzles and game design
One turn needs a beginning, an end and a next player
Define who acts next and what one turn includes.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Original pattern-making does not need a borrowed cultural label
Choose a general creative task separate from cultural reproduction.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Overlap gives the viewer a clue about front and back
Show one form partly hiding another.
Logic puzzles and game design
Pack a printable game so another group can set it up
Make setup and pack-up reproducible.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Pack-up is easier when saving work was planned earlier
Give a clear stopping process that protects unfinished work.
Forces, light and weather
Paper aircraft: change one feature and give the comparison a fair chance
Change one design feature while keeping the launch procedure consistent.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Paper camouflage: test visibility within the model
Test visibility in a model and discuss its limits.
Forces, light and weather
Paper helicopter blades: identify the feature under investigation
Identify one deliberate change and state what will be measured.
Design and paper engineering
Paper packaging trade-offs: protection can cost material
Compare competing requirements explicitly.
Design and paper engineering
Paper tabs: compare joins with equal material allowances
Compare join designs using equal materials and a shared test.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Paper weaving: follow the crossings one at a time
Follow alternating placement while keeping strips broad and manageable.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Paraphrasing checks understanding; it does not require agreement
Check understanding before replying.
Civics and democratic participation
Parliament and government: separate the institution from the governing group
Compare their functions using official explanations rather than treating the words as interchangeable.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Pause an original scene where several continuations are possible
Offer a clear situation with several possible next actions.
Logic puzzles and game design
Pause the puzzle without losing the next useful question
Make pausing and returning a legitimate strategy.
Design and paper engineering
Peer feedback is more useful when the prototype has a question
Ask reviewers to test a stated criterion rather than rate the maker.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Performance feedback should concern communication choices
Review communication choices rather than personality.
Money, measurement and data
Perimeter: trace the boundary you intend to measure
Trace the outside edge and identify which lengths belong in the calculation.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Permission to view is not permission to republish
Read the stated conditions for classroom use and redistribution.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Personal preference is not a rule about a culture
Keep an individual's choice distinct from a whole group's practice.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Perspective-taking leaves room for more than one explanation
Consider possibilities without claiming to know another person's feelings.
Coding and computational thinking
Picture codes represent selected information
Show how agreed symbols can stand for selected information.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Plan a cultural guest visit around the expertise being offered
Prepare practical questions about scope, permissions and participation.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Planet groupings need source properties, not picture colours
Sort using verified properties rather than picture colour.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Planet order is not a picture of equal distances
Use separate representations for order, relative size and distance.
Money, measurement and data
Possible or impossible depends on the setup
Explain possible and impossible outcomes in relation to the actual setup.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Practise a clear boundary and the response it deserves
Offer clear language for stopping an unwanted action.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Practise a paper tab before building the full craft
Practise connecting parts before making a more complex form.
Civics and democratic participation
Preferential voting: work through an official demonstration
Follow the AEC's school-election instructions and name the real process the model is intended to illustrate.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Prehistoric does not mean dinosaur
Check museum classifications instead of grouping by age alone.
Money, measurement and data
Price, payment and change: label the amounts before calculating
Keep the cost of an order separate from the amount offered by the customer.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Primary and secondary sources answer different kinds of question
Consider a source's relationship to the question and event.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Puppet dialogue works when the characters respond to each other
Let characters pursue different goals through a short exchange.
Forces, light and weather
Push or pull? Describe the action before the movement
Describe the action before explaining the resulting movement.
Number, operations and fractions
Put a fraction on a line with zero and one
Partition the interval between zero and one into equal lengths and locate the fraction within it.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
Put quiet options inside the music celebration plan
Provide listening, visual and silent-making choices.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
Put the celebration scavenger hunt inside an illustrated scene
Keep the search within an accessible fictional scene.
Number, operations and fractions
Quarters require four equal shares of the whole
Establish four equal parts and retain a visible reference to the original whole.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Question or statement? Start with what the sentence does
Connect punctuation to the sentence's purpose using short meaningful examples.
Civics and democratic participation
Questions a civic visitor can meaningfully answer
Help learners ask about a role and process without seeking personal political opinions or private information.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Quiet and active choices need space to coexist
Provide genuine alternatives suited to the available space and arrangements.
Forces, light and weather
Rainfall data: read the unit and the collection period
Read a labelled record with units and a stated collection period.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Read a crater photograph before explaining its history
Describe visible surface features before suggesting their history.
Money, measurement and data
Read a temperature record with its unit and context
Record the instrument, place and time so readings have a clear context.
Money, measurement and data
Read the picture-graph key before counting symbols
Explain what each symbol represents before comparing category totals.
Number, operations and fractions
Recognising a small quantity without counting each dot
Invite recognition of a small structured quantity and an explanation of what was seen.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Record the adaptation and the response, not a universal promise
Describe the change and the observed response without generalising.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Record the fossil clue's grid reference before moving it
Record a clue's position before moving its paper card.
Design and paper engineering
Redesign one feature for a reason you can show
Connect a change to evidence from the first test.
Civics and democratic participation
Referendum or election: what question is on the ballot?
Compare what people are being asked to decide, using the appropriate Australian official explanations.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Reflect on cooperation without giving friendship grades
Review task processes rather than judging relationships.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Reflect on the composition by returning to one chosen moment
Discuss intentional choices and their effects.
Forces, light and weather
Reflection: move the patch with a small mirror turn
Follow a torch beam between a stable mirror and a paper target.
Number, operations and fractions
Regrouping changes the pieces, not the amount
Make an exchange visible before using a written calculation procedure.
Coding and computational thinking
Repeat three means three executions in this notation
Count executions rather than extra copies after the first.
Forces, light and weather
Repeated trials show variation the best attempt hides
Use several attempts to notice variation within the same setup.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Respectful cultural questions stay with what was shared
Ask about the shared information rather than demanding personal representation.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Retelling a story without rebuilding it sentence by sentence
Choose the events a listener needs in order to understand the outcome.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Reuse and recycling change an object in different ways
Distinguish using an object again from processing its material.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Revise a story by choosing what needs to change
Keep the task manageable by changing one feature and checking its effect on meaning.
Logic puzzles and game design
Revise an elimination game so participation can continue
Keep participation available after mistakes or unlucky outcomes.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Revisit one place to observe seasonal change
Compare dated images of the same location.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Rhyming words can look different on the page
Compare spoken endings and choose examples that suit the learners' language experience.
Civics and democratic participation
Rights and responsibilities in a shared-space scenario
Ask how participation and respectful conduct relate without treating rights as rewards for good behaviour.
Number, operations and fractions
Rotate an array and investigate what stays the same
Compare two grouping descriptions of the same array without changing its quantity.
Civics and democratic participation
Rules and laws: who gets to change them?
Compare who makes an instruction, where it applies and how it can be changed.
Money, measurement and data
Same area, different perimeter: rearrange six squares
Build two regions from the same number of equal squares and compare their outside boundaries.
Design and paper engineering
Save the reason for a design choice before the test
Preserve the reason for a choice so later reflection can compare it with evidence.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Selecting First Nations resources: start with authority and context
Evaluate authorship, authority, context and suitability before classroom use.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Set up the station for the whole session, including returns
Make materials, instructions and return locations easy to find.
Forces, light and weather
Shadow size changes when the object moves
Change the object's position while keeping the light and screen fixed.
Money, measurement and data
Show a fictional savings goal as progress and a gap
Show the target, the amount accumulated and the amount still needed without discussing real savings.
Coding and computational thinking
Simplify a route map without deleting what the robot needs
Keep information needed for navigation and omit irrelevant decoration.
Coding and computational thinking
Sorting requires one rule applied all the way through
Apply the same comparison rule consistently.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Space interest might mean building, stories or factual inquiry
Ask what aspect of the interest they want to explore.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Space-image colour can represent processed information
Read image captions before interpreting colour as human-eye appearance.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Specific thanks names the contribution and its effect
Name what someone did and why it helped.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Stage positions need an audience reference
Agree on positions relative to the performance area.
Number, operations and fractions
Subtraction as taking away: show the starting amount
Show the initial collection, the removed part and the remaining part separately.
Number, operations and fractions
Subtraction can compare two collections without taking any away
Compare two quantities by matching their common part and identifying the unmatched amount.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Suffixes: follow the word into a sentence
Connect the chosen ending to a meaningful change and keep spelling variations manageable.
Civics and democratic participation
Suggested, considered, decided: three different stages
Keep suggestions, discussion and authorised decisions visibly separate during a fictional planning task.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Symmetry and deliberate asymmetry can share the page
Compare balanced reflection with intentional variation.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Talk about belonging without asking for a personal account
Let children contribute imagined welcoming features.
Money, measurement and data
Tally marks need a consistent counting rule
Link each mark to one recorded event and group marks according to the convention taught.
Celebrations and appreciation activities
Teacher appreciation without a shopping requirement
Offer meaningful optional contributions using available materials.
Number, operations and fractions
Teen numbers as a ten and some more
Build a group of ten and a visible remainder rather than relying only on number names.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Tell a short action through images alone
Communicate a short action through changing images.
Number, operations and fractions
Tens and ones: explain what the digits stand for
Represent a two-digit number with grouped tens and remaining single units.
Money, measurement and data
Test reflection symmetry with corresponding points
Compare corresponding features on opposite sides of a chosen line.
Coding and computational thinking
Test the value on the boundary of the sorting rule
Try examples near the rule's boundary.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
The caption is part of the cultural photograph
Read creator, date, place and permitted use before interpretation.
Space and dinosaur investigations
The complete museum skeleton may include restored parts
Separate specimen information from reconstruction and uncertainty.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
The empty spaces change when the paper shapes move
Compare the placed shape with the surrounding empty area.
Number, operations and fractions
The equals sign connects equal amounts on both sides
Compare the values on both sides instead of treating the symbol as an instruction to give an answer.
Number, operations and fractions
The last count tells us how many altogether
Ask what the final counting word tells us about the whole collection.
Forces, light and weather
The next investigation should answer a specific remaining question
Choose a new test that addresses a specific uncertainty.
Logic puzzles and game design
The overlap in a Venn diagram has a job
Use intersecting sets when an item can meet both rules.
Money, measurement and data
The receipt adds up, but is the order right?
Compare the receipt against the stated menu and order rather than checking arithmetic alone.
Forces, light and weather
The salt is harder to see: what can we conclude?
Distinguish a material becoming less visible from proving it no longer exists.
Coding and computational thinking
The same commands can finish differently from different starts
Show how identical commands can produce different results from different starts.
Design and paper engineering
The same load can behave differently when it is spread out
Compare where a safe lightweight load is placed.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
The story jumps here: helping a reader find the gap
Ask what a reader needs to know between two events rather than simply adding more sentences.
Space and dinosaur investigations
The Sun and Earth belong to different kinds of object
Compare authoritative descriptions before using a sorting activity.
Respectful cultural and historical inquiry
Then and now does not have to become worse and better
Describe a specified change and its context.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Three colours can be enough for a purposeful drawing
Make purposeful choices within a small set of materials.
Money, measurement and data
Three items at one price: make the receipt line explicit
Distinguish an item's unit price from the cost of several identical items.
Civics and democratic participation
Three levels of government, seen through everyday services
Use public-service examples, with an explicit space for shared responsibilities and uncertain cases.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Three process photographs should show three meaningful moments
Capture meaningful decisions rather than only a final product.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Three small composition sketches can prevent one oversized commitment
Compare arrangements before committing to a larger drawing.
Music, drama and expressive movement
Timbre: notice the quality that distinguishes the sound source
Compare sound qualities while keeping volume comfortable.
Money, measurement and data
Time a process without turning children into competitors
Measure or discuss the duration of a process rather than ranking participants by speed.
Coding and computational thinking
Toggle and set-on are different instructions
Track a defined object's current state after each action.
Design and paper engineering
Top and side views reveal different parts of the same model
Use separate viewpoints to reveal different dimensions.
Coding and computational thinking
Trace a program through its intermediate states
Predict intermediate states rather than only the destination.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Turn a broad space interest into a question worth checking
Turn a broad interest into a question with a checkable answer.
Civics and democratic participation
Turn a class concern into a realistic civic next step
Distinguish the concern, evidence, audience and realistic next step before considering any real contact.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Turning in place and travelling around are separate movements
Demonstrate turning in place separately from travelling around a centre.
Civics and democratic participation
Two civic sources may be repeating the same claim
Ask who produced a source, what it discusses and why it was created before relying on it.
Coding and computational thinking
Two correct routes can be compared by different criteria
Evaluate different valid solutions against a stated criterion.
Space and dinosaur investigations
Two dinosaur reconstructions may differ for understandable reasons
Identify shared evidence and speculative differences using source captions.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Two endings, two ways of answering the story problem
Evaluate an ending against the problem established in the story rather than personal preference alone.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Two nearby garden places can offer different conditions
Record conditions at two nearby places without disturbing them.
Number, operations and fractions
Two pieces are not automatically two halves
Check equality of the parts before naming them halves.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Two seed diaries, several possible explanations
Compare documented conditions before suggesting reasons for different outcomes.
Design and paper engineering
Two solutions should differ in how they work
Compare genuinely different approaches to the same requirement.
Logic puzzles and game design
Two-attribute sorting requires both properties at once
Apply both properties rather than sorting on the most visible one.
Coding and computational thinking
Two-state cards need a shared convention
Use a defined two-state representation without claiming it explains all computing.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Unfinished projects can leave a useful learning record
Record decisions and questions even when no final product exists.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
Use the name and pronunciation the person offers
Ask and use the form the person offers.
Civics and democratic participation
Vote or seek consensus? Match the method to the decision
Show that seeking an agreement and counting preferences are different decision-making approaches.
Drawing, visual arts and paper craft
Warm and cool colours are useful groupings, not fixed feelings
Discuss familiar colour groupings while allowing personal interpretations.
Nature, habitats and sustainability
Waste sorting: check the local list, not a remembered bin colour
Match items to the actual service instructions rather than colour assumptions.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Watching can be a chosen role in a group challenge
Make watching a legitimate way to participate without forced reporting.
Forces, light and weather
Weather now and weather forecast: read the time reference
Separate a current record from a prediction about later conditions.
Forces, light and weather
What a window weather log cannot tell us
Name what the method cannot establish as well as what it records.
Design and paper engineering
What changes when a cardboard frame gains a diagonal brace?
Compare a model frame before and after adding a diagonal brace.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
What does the character want? Read the action in context
Connect a character's goal to an observable choice in an original or appropriately selected text.
Civics and democratic participation
What does the federal government do? Choose a checked example
Use a clear national-service example, then distinguish a real responsibility from a classroom analogy.
Civics and democratic participation
When more than one government looks after a service
Investigate who funds, manages and delivers a service instead of forcing one exclusive answer.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
When reading stops making sense, name the problem
Model noticing when an idea stops making sense and choosing a repair strategy.
Friendship, cooperation and belonging
When someone declines, a brief respectful answer is enough
Accept the answer without demanding a personal explanation.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Where a word search fits in vocabulary practice
Introduce and use the words outside the grid so the letter search has a clear supplementary role.
Civics and democratic participation
Where do courts fit? Avoid the three-level ladder
Keep federal, state or territory and local levels separate from a discussion of institutions and legal roles.
Money, measurement and data
Where does this ruler's measurement begin?
Match the object's beginning with the scale's zero rather than the ruler's physical edge.
Civics and democratic participation
Which ballots count? Read the rules of the model
Use the instructions for the chosen voting model to check whether a ballot can be counted.
Forces, light and weather
Which materials transmit the torch light?
Compare how materials affect a torch beam in a shaded indoor space.
Logic puzzles and game design
Which mystery detail actually narrows the possibilities?
Ask whether information restricts the puzzle's possibilities.
Money, measurement and data
Which pretend offer costs less per identical token?
Establish comparable quantities before deciding which option offers more for the stated price.
Civics and democratic participation
Why make a classroom ballot private?
Provide a private way to express a fictional preference without requiring children to announce their choice.
Forces, light and weather
Will this material work as the model's rain cover?
Define the practical question before choosing a test.
Reading, vocabulary and storytelling
Write a book blurb that leaves a reason to read
Introduce the situation and tension while preserving a reason to read further.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Write activity instructions for the colleague who was not there
Record what is needed to run the activity consistently.
OSHC activity planning and reflection
Write the observation before the interpretation
Record the action and context before considering meaning.
Number, operations and fractions
Zero belongs in the collection story
Show an empty collection alongside collections containing objects.