So, what is informative writing? At its simplest, any text that seeks to ‘inform’. This includes a fabulous variety of things like: reports emails documentaries news articles sports reports science experiments even things like the description of how a fridge works! In this wonderful digital era, texts are completely multimodal – they can be written,…
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The Educator Hot List 2019: Seven Steps Creator named for the fourth year running!
It’s official! Seven Steps creator and CEO, Jen McVeity has been named in The Educator’s 2019 Hot List for the fourth year in-a-row! The Educator is one of the most renowned Australian publications for senior educational professionals and decision-makers. This lists highlights the outstanding work and research in the name of ensuring students have the…
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National Science Week: Fun Writing Activities
Attention, moonwalkers! National Science Week is 10-18 August. The theme is Destination Moon: more missions, more science. What a fantastic way to celebrate the Moon Landing 50th Anniversary! This is a great time for big-picture thinking with your students: explore moon missions and space programs of the past, present and future. Solve problems and use…
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Six Books to Read by Torchlight this Earth Hour
This year, Earth Hour is on Saturday 30 March. From 8:30-9:30PM, we all have one hour when we turn off non-essential electricity, all devices, all screens. The world goes dark. It feels quieter, peaceful – and that is the point. Earth Hour started in Sydney in 2007 as an initiative of the World Wide Fund…
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