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Year 9

Paper for the ACCE 2016 Conference in Brisbane, Australia

Posted on 05/07/201605/07/2016 by michaelsisley Leave a comment

The GS Project: A Bubble in Glass – a STEAM Unit of Work for Year 9 English Collaborating with Digital Technologies, Science and Visual Arts Michael Sisley DATTA ACT, ACTATE, ACT Department of Education, Canberra Abstract: The genre of Science Fiction in English literature has been used for decades to engage students, particularly those with […]

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    • Home
    • Assessment
      • Assessment: building the GS Model
      • GS Model
        • MichaelS’ GS Model Process
    • GS Texts
      • Shorter Texts used for 2017 & 2018
        • Aniara, by Harry Martinson
        • Manning’s ‘The Living Galaxy’
        • Robinson’s ‘The Oceans are Wide’
        • Simak’s ‘Spacebred Generations’
        • Binder’s ‘Son of the Stars’
        • Wilcox’ ‘The Voyage that Lasted 600 Years’
        • Clarke’s ‘Rescue Party’
        • Yoachim’s ‘Goat Milk Cheese’
        • Russo’s ‘The One Mission’
        • Ballard’s ‘Thirteen to Centaurus’
        • Sterling’s ‘Taklamakan’
        • Selling’s ‘A Start in Life’
    • STEAM links
    • TPACK
    • Notes on GS texts
      • Notes for Novels: 2017 & 2018
        • Notes for Robinson’s ‘The Dark Beyond the Stars’
        • Notes for Heinlein’s ‘Orphan of the Sky’
        • Notes for Stephenson’s ‘SevenEves’
        • Notes for Aldiss’ ‘Non-Stop’
        • Notes for Tubb’s ‘The Space Born’
        • Notes for Baxter’s ‘Ark’
        • Notes for Harrison’s ‘Captive Universe’
        • Notes for Gerrold’s ‘The Galactic Whirlpool’
        • Notes for Gloss’ ‘The Dazzle of Day’
        • Notes for White’s ‘The Watch Below’
      • Notes on Visual Texts: 2017 & 2018
        • Notes for Tyldum’s ‘Passengers’
        • Notes for Alvart’s ‘Pandorum’
      • Notes for Shorter Narratives
        • Notes for Manning’s ‘The Living Galaxy’
        • Notes for Simak’s ‘Spacebred Generations’
        • Notes for Binder’s ‘Son of the Stars’
        • Notes for Clarke’s ‘Rescue Party’
        • Notes for Robinson’s ‘The Oceans are Wide’
        • Notes for Selling’s ‘A Start in Life’
        • Notes on Ballard’s ‘Thirteen to Centaurus’
        • Notes on Sterling’s ‘Taklamakan’
      • Notes for GS Poetry Texts
        • Notes for Martinson’s ‘Aniara’
    • Focus Questions for the GS Project
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