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Real Chinese - Mini-guides - Chinese characters

  • TLF-IDM013192

This is a mini-guide with a linked game to the use of characters in Chinese. The resource provides detailed explanations on what characters are, the importance they play in Chinese culture, and the change from traditional to simplified characters. It demonstrates how characters have derived from pictographs and evolved ...

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Brushes Redux - iTunes app

  • TLF-IDM019717

Create paintings using editable brushes with a range of brush effects. Includes layers, transparency, and ability to export and import images. Unlimited undo and redo allows you replay your brushstrokes. Images can be saved to camera roll, file sharing, emailed or posted on social media. Free when reviewed 27/5/2015.

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Be a friend

  • TLF-IDM025960

Explore dance, drama and visual arts through different elements of friendship.

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Cat-toons!

  • TLF-IDM025912

Students learn about cartooning techniques to create cat cartoons inspired by the Cat in the Hat.

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Shake the papaya tree

  • TLF-IDM025837

Find out more about papaya trees and then learn to draw one! Learn a song about climbing a tree and some movements to perform as you sing the song. Explore how to find the beat in the music.

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Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing

  • TLF-IDM021385

This is a very rich resource for students from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), which gives them an insight into the art of Shaun Tan through a focus on both the book and the film of The Lost Thing. The content focuses on aspects of storytelling, including themes, techniques, forms and language, visual, ...

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Autumn leaves

  • TLF-IDM025906

Explore dance, art and music through a song about Autumn leaves. Make some art works, dance like a leaf and learn to play the song on a keyboard instrument.

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Making waves with Hokusai

  • TLF-IDM025951

Students create artworks and poetry inspired by the works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

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What a stretch!

  • TLF-IDM025926

Investigate the unique physical features of the giraffe and explore how giraffes are represented in art. Create your own giraffe artwork.

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Visual humour

  • TLF-IDM016369

This resource focuses on how humour is created in images, films and multimodal texts. It includes activities and reading strategies to support the analysis and understanding of the processes of visual humour in texts. This resource supports the Australian Curriculum in English K–10.

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Creating Avatars

  • TLF-IDM016142

The resource provides advice and help for students to create avatars as visual representation for a variety of publications. This resource supports the Australian Curriculum in English K–10.

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Dinosaur dig

  • TLF-IDM025751

Students learn about the world of dinosaurs through creative arts. They explore elements of dance to develop coordination skills through movement and actions, as well as music and drama to create characters. They also create a dinosaur themed artwork.

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Big battles!

  • TLF-IDM025756

Students explore music and dance through body percussion and singing as they learn the story of the unicorn and lion's big battle. They create a collage artwork using images of lions and unicorns that they can find.

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SketchBook

  • TLF-IDM013072

This is a free application for the iPad that focuses on creating drawings and sketches using virtual professional-grade tools and brushes, and imaging techniques. It features a full-screen workspace and an 11-icon menu including pan and zoom navigation, a brush editor, colour wheels with HSB and RBG colour space, an eye-dropper ...

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Bear and Chook by the Sea

  • TLF-IDM020672

This learning object is designed around a series of videos with Lisa Shanahan, author, and Emma Quay, illustrator, including a reading experience of their collaborative work, Bear and Chook by the Sea. Taken as a whole, this sequence of lessons is a Stage 1 unit of work that results in students working in pairs to produce ...

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Going on an adventure

  • TLF-IDM025955

Explore drama and visual arts activities using an adventure story as a stimulus.

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Metamorphosis

  • TLF-IDM025969

Using drama and visual arts students explore a world of play and imagination where nothing is as ordinary as it seems.

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The dot

  • TLF-IDM025934

Students will listen to the story 'The Dot' by Peter H Reynolds and create artworks of real and imagined things inspired by the story. They also sing a song with simple actions.

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When is a stick not a stick?

  • TLF-IDM025947

Explore a world of play and imagery, where nothing is as ordinary as it seems. Students respond imaginatively when using a stick as a stimulus to explore elements of drama and create characters. Students will develop their expressive skills through movement and voice. Students also create artworks using a stick as a stimulus.

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Chicken challenge

  • TLF-IDM025772

Learn to use two-dimensional shapes to create a chicken artwork.

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