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Examples of Slam Dunk Lessons from 2008 and 2007 are further down on this page.

Slam Dunk Lessons 2009

Lauren Baudinette & Nicola Onley Healthy Eating and The Right Foods to Eat - for yrs 4 & 5	Michelle Brockhouse Fire Safety in the Home	Alan Brocklehurst	Amy Brooks Water Conservation - How can we help conserve water?	Tanya Domaschenz
Joshua Farmer	Tristan Fergusson Internet Safety	Peter Fletcher Bushfires	Matthew Freeman Healthy Eating at School	Hannah Gerhardy The Great Barrier Reef
Catherine Harris Australian Animals Slam Dunk Lesson	Matthew Hehner & Nikki Mcgrane	Vassilios Kontopoulos Omega 3 fatty acids, brainfood which make you smart and active.	Aimee Lipczyk	David Maglieri Kimberley Whyte Make Your Own Lunch Box
Adelle Matthews To Be or Not To Be?: An introduction to Shakespeare and Elizabethan times	Danial Kharaghani Healthy Diet	Rebecca Messmer A Wicked Safe Sex Slam Dunk	Estevan Nacianceno China, Britain & Egypt: A historical and comparative study in Architecture & Design  for Years 5 & 6.
Chye Peen Electrical Safety	Brendan Powell Volcanoes	Amanda Shaw Why Do We Have Teeth?	Casey Stoetzer ANZAC Day	John Wehbe AFL Statistics
Patrick Gett Anti Binge Drinking Campaign	Simon Manning Cyber Bullying

 AFL Statistics 

John Wehbe

This lesson is aimed at middle school students, and focuses on the use of mathematics in statistics.
Afl Statistics Lesson     Student Graph Template       Assessment Rubric

Healthy Eating

Lauren Baudinette & Nikki Onley

This slam dunk lesson focuses on the importance of eating a balanced diet as well as how healthy eating is portrayed through the use of media campaigns. This lesson gives the students an opportunity to create their own advertisement to promote healthy eating, which may be published in the school newsletter. This lesson is aimed at year 4 & 5 students.

Healthy Eating Slam Dunk Lesson

Student Activity Worksheet One

Student Activity Worksheet Two

Bubbl.us Activity

Assessment Rubric

 ANZAC Day Slam Dunk Lesson

Casey Stoetzer

This slam dunk lesson focusses on ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand. It takes students through the beginning of the ANZAC legend and also allows them to explore different ways in which it is celebrated each year. It also ecourages student to think about what ANZAC Day means to them and also to the members of their community. This lesson is aimed at the upper end of primary school student, mainly year 6's or year 7's.

ANZAC Day Slam Dunk Lesson

ANZAC Day Mind Map

Hannah Gerhardy

The Great Barrier Reef

This lesson is aimed at upper primary levels and explores the properties and problems concerning coral reefs, focusing specifically on the Great Barrier Reef. It allows students to investigate issues regarding the health of the Great Barrier Reef and consider ways these problems can be managed.

Slam Dunk Lesson

Supporting Worksheet

Assessment Rubric

David Maglieri & Kimberley Whyte

Make Your Own Lunch Box - Slam Dunk Lesson

Students need to eat a variety of foods everyday to stay healthy. Therefore it is important for students to pack their lunch boxes with plenty of brain foods that are good for them, giving them plenty of energy and tasting great as well! This lesson is aimed primary year levels, allowing them to gain knowledge about nutrition and health to help them select a healthy lunch everyday. The lesson is built around the students designing a healthy lunch box aswell as gaining knowledge on what they can put in their aswell.  

Slam Dunk Lesson

• PowerPoint Presentation - Make Your Own Lunch Box

 Brendan Powell

Volcano Slam Dunk Lesson

In this lesson the students will learn about volcanoes and how they are apart of the environment.  It is aimed at middle primary years and will hopefully give them a fun lesson while also learning about something interesting.

PPS: Volcano Slam Dunk Lesson

Amy Brooks

Water Conservation Slam Dunk Lesson

This lesson is aimed at the primary level, year 3-4's. It prompts students to investigate water conservation and the ways in which they can conserve water at home and around the school.

Link to Slam Dunk Lesson

Link to Excel Worksheet - (Student Activity)

Al Brocklehurst

Money - the value of Slam Dunk Lesson

Money is a critical part of our society therefore this lesson assists Middle School students to consider what value it holds for both themselves, others and for people in other countries. This Slam Dunk Lesson not only helps students gain an understand of the history of money in Australian society but also introduces a social justice element to money in the global economy.

PPS (1.31mb): Money - the value of Slam Dunk Lesson

PDF (107kb): Worksheet for above

PDF (438kb): Money - the value of Slam Dunk Lesson including worksheet

Online version at authorSTREAM

Aimee Lipczyk

The Dreaming

A Slam Dunk that examines the significance and role of The Dreaming in the lives of Indigenous Australian Peoples.

This lesson is designed with a year 6/7 class in mind.

Slam Dunk Lesson

Tristan Fergusson

Internet Safety

Aimed at primary school (Year 3 -4), the internet for a first time user is a daunting experience.  This slam dunk lesson, will hopefully allow students to learn the tools and traps of using the internet.

Zip file - Link to Slam dunk lesson

Chye Peen

Slam Dunk Lesson - Electrical Safety

In this slam drunk lesson, students will learn about the dangers of electricity and electrical safety. This lesson is designed for year 3/4/5 students as part of health. The aim of this lesson is for students to identify the important issues of electrical safety. A Key area of learning is collaboration and creative thinking.

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Tanya Domaschenz

HUMAN RIGHTS

This slam dunk lesson is aimed at year 7 students. It looks at human rights in relation to children. Students will look at other countries and the issues they are facing.

Slam Dunk Lesson

Estevan Nacianceno

China, Britain & Egypt: A historical and Comparative Study in Architecture & Design for Years 5&6. Strand: Art in Context (Art) & Critiquing (Design & Technology).

This lesson aims to expand the student's creative awareness & creative reasoning by teaching them to research, compare and discuss Ancient and Modern architecture. The students are also instructed to use their imagination and logical reasoning skills to predict and design futuristic architectural buildings.

Link To Slam Dunk Lesson

Matt Freeman

Healthy Eating at School

This lesson is designed to educate students particularly in the primary year levels of four and five about eating healthy and ways to incorporate healthy food in their school lunch.  The focus of the lesson is to provide students with a diverse range of ideas regarding how they can substitute healthy foods for unhealthy foods.  The lesson could be used as a foundation activity concerning the healthy eating pyramid and associated food groups.  This slam dunk lesson would be appropriate for middle school students as the content is a real and relevant issue in schooling due to increased awareness and prevalence of lifestyle related health issues including obesity.

The 'Healthy Eating' Lesson (PPS)

The 'Venn Diagram Lunchbox' Template (DOC)

Assessment Rubric for Teachers and Students (PDF)

Complete File Folder (ZIP)

Amanda Shaw

Why Do We Have Teeth?

A slam dunk lesson for early years primary school students about why we have teeth, why we have baby teeth and adult teeth and how to take care of them. Includes interactive quizzes and games!

Slam Dunk Lesson

Bill Vassilios Kontopoulos

Slam Dunk Lesson.

This Slam Dunk Lesson is dedicated for middle years students and is about the benefits of the Omega 3 Fatty acid and how importand it is in their diet.

Cat Harris

Slam Dunk Lesson: Australian Animals.

A Slam Dunk Lesson aimed at year 2/3 encouraging research and sorting of information related to Australian animals: their diets, features, habitats and endangered species status.

Slam Dunk

Link to table

Assessment Rubric

Patrick Gett

Slam Dunk Lesson: Students Anti Binge Drinking Campaign

This slam dunk lesson is aimed at the 15+ age groups. It is about the current governments anti binge drinking campaign. In the slam dunk lesson the students will look at the campaign designed by the government and discuss the effectiveness to their age group. The students will then look at the statistics presented by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and in small groups create their own campaign that will target their audience better.

Slam Dunk Lesson

Student work sheet

Michelle Brockhouse

Home Fire Safety Slam Dunk Lesson

This Slam Dunk Lesson is aimed at lower primary students (Years2/3). It is designed as an introductory to home safety and covers fire safety rules such as Stop, Cover, Drop, Roll and discusses what are common causes of house fires and what to do in the event of a fire in your home.

Slam Dunk Lesson                                                       Assessment Rubric

Worksheet 1 - Reporting Fire and Smoke

Worksheet 2 - Reporting Fire Questions                        House Plan Activity Grid

Worksheet 3 - House Fire Scenarios for Assessment Activity

Activity - Hazards in the Home                                     Activity - Burning Hazards

Activity - Do the Right Thing with Matches

Peter Fletcher

Bushfire safety.

My slam dunk lesson is aimed at students in years 5/6 in the Adelaide Hills area, though it can be adapted for other areas. It focuses on bushfire prevention, safety and preparation. The activities are an initial question sheet, where the students have to navigate their way around the website to find answers, and then also to create a poster that shows what they have learnt.

Slam Dunk Lesson

Question Sheet

Adelle Matthews

To Be or Not to Be?:  An introduction to Shakespeare and Elizabethan times.

A slam dunk lesson aimed at years 9/10 as an introduction to Shakespeare.  The lesson introduces students to the culture of the Elizabethan Era and requires them to recognise changes between these times and the present.  It also introduces students to Shakespeare's plays and allows them to draw links as to why certain events in Shakespeare's plays were linked to society in the times they were written.

Slam Dunk Lesson

Activity Sheet

Assessment Rubric

Rebecca Messmer- A Safe Sex Slam Dunk

This Slam Dunk teaches students about safe sex and how to deal with growth and development.

This powerpoint is aimed at the lower years of secondary (years 8/9)

Slam Dunk Lesson

Matt Hehner & Nikki McGrane - Kids Help lines

This slam dunk lesson shows the available help for children suffering from issues such as depression and bullying. The slam dunk is aimed at upper primary/lower secondary (years 7/8).

Slam Dunk Lesson

Examples of Slam Dunk lessons by expert teachers from 2004 - formerly called Learning Bytes

Completed Slam Dunk Lessons 2008

Angelique Madison   Top

This Slam Dunk lesson is part of a series of lessons which will introduce the many different Biomes around the world. Students will then go on to investigate how Global Climate Change can change these environments. It is aimed at upper primary/middle school students. 
Climate Change Lesson    Student resource

Mark Bailye Top

This slam dunk session is aimed at Year 8/9 students and is designed to get students to consider how mobile phones can be used as educational tools in the classroom.

Mobile Phones in the Classroom (PPS)
Mobile Phones in the Classroom - Survey (DOC) 

Anita Beaglehole Top

This Slam Dunk Lesson is aimed at year 4/5 students. It asks the question "How does water get from the clouds in the sky to my tap at home?" with a focus on the Onkaparinga Catchment. It is aimed to be an introduction to a unit on waterwatch in the Onkaparinga Catchment area, which includes a field trip to different parts of the catchment.

Water travel Lesson (pps)    Water travel Student Table (doc)

Kirby Beatty  Top

This Slam Dunk lesson is focused on teaching students what they can do to help reduce the effects of global warming. It is aimed at primary students.

View Slam Dunk lesson

View Student Activity Table 

Kylie Boag  Top

This Slam Dunk Lesson is aimed for year 9 students (Middle Years).  It is designed to introduce students to ecologically sustainable housing and how this impacts the world and our community.

Ecological Sustainable Housing Lesson 

Ecological Aspects/Products spreadsheet

Morgan Braybrook  Top

This Slam Dunk is for year 4/5 students, learning about the Bilby. It is aimed to be used when learning about Easter, and can also be used when introducing students to endangered animals.

Bilby Slam Dunk

Sara Crockford   Top

This Slam Dunk Lesson is focused at yr 2/3's. It focuses on finding your "place in space". It is working towards  students finding an understanding of the massive size of our universe and world and where we fit in amongst it all.

"My Place in Space" Lesson       "My Place in Space" Booklet

Lia Degiglio  Top

This Slam Dunk Lesson is focused on year 4/5's. This will help students decide different ways of 'saving energy within the household'. Students will form an understanding on different electrical appliances and which are used more frequently.

"Reducing Energy" Lesson.

Activity one.

Bonus Activity.

Joshua Draper  Top

Physical Education

- what does a good training program involve  for a ANZ Championship Netball player ?

This slam Dunk lesson is aimed at secondary students. it discusses the use of energy systems, nutrition of a player and certain areas of the body that would need to be worked to gain more physical fitness for a player.

SlamDunk

Vanessa Eley  Top

WATER SAFETY

This Slam Dunk lesson targets primary school students. As an outcome of the lesson, students will understand why it is important to be aware of water safety and how to keep themselves and others safe.

Slam Dunk Water Safety

Linda Fotheringham  Top

Topic: Ancient Egypt.  A lesson exploring hieroglyphic symbols and the significance of the Rosetta Stone. Many enrichment activities to explore for primary students in years 3 - 5.

Ancient Egypt.pps

Ancient Egypt Activity Sheet.doc

Ancient Egypt Answer Sheet.doc

Sally Grist   Top

Climate Change - this lesson is designed for primary school students. It focuses on climate change and its impacts on our environment.

Climate Change 

Task Sheet

Tara Herewane   Top

Cyber-bullying - This lesson is designed for 4/5 students. It may take a double lesson if you wish to let the students look at and learn from the interactive websites available from the Enrichments activities. This lesson will teach students to become aware of Cyber-bullying. The question asked is ‘What is Cyber-bullying and how can we help stop it?’

Slamdunk       Student template

Lucas Hill Top

 This Slam Dunk Lesson is aimed at secondary students participating in physical education. The lesson is based around aussie rules. It involves the student in creating a fitness program for their elite team. It also involves many other fun activities.

Slam Dunk Lesson

Student Task Sheet

Peter Hillier  Top

This Slam Dunk lesson is aimed at year 6 to 8 students. It enable students to improve their decision making skills and will help to improve their writting/communication skills.

Slam Dunk Lesson  Excel activity table

Kate Northeast   Top LANGUAGE MATTERS

This Slam Dunk lesson is aimed at year 8/9 students.  It raises the importance of language and would be an excellent introduction for foriegn language lessons or a SOSE class.

Language Matters lesson (pps)    Language Matters worksheet (doc)

Anthony Patten  Top Blocked Toilets

This Slam Dunk lesson would interest year 7/8/9/ students. Blocked toilets, Constipation and Diarrhoea are discussed to stimulate many literacies including debate, analysis and higher order thinking. Keywords: Fun, Engagement, Relevance and collaboration.

Slam Dunk: Blocked Toilets (pps)

Chanelle Rose  Top

This is a lesson aimed at year 4/5 students. It allows the students to research the continents of the world.

Slam Dunk Lesson- Continents

Slam Dunk Activity Sheet

Katherine Rowlands  Top

This Slam Dunk Lesson is aimed for lower primary school students. It is designed to introduce students to the heart and how to find their pulse. This lesson also tests students’ ability to create and analyse graphs.

Please note: The title page fades out turning into page one after five seconds.

Slam Dunk Lesson 

David Steele  Top

Olympics

This slam dunk lesson is aimed for middle primary students (years3/4/5), and involves researching numerous websites to find out what year and country did Australia have their best medal tally from the last 6 Olympic Games.  It focuses on finding and analysing data using team work skills with problem solving behind it.

Slam Dunk Lesson

Slam Dunk Activity Sheet

Penny Taeuber  Top

Invent your own sport.

 This slam dunk lesson is for a middle primary class (years 3, 4, 5) and is aimed to be an introductory lesson on Physical Education. The students also get a change to use higher order thinking while inventing their own sport.

Slam Dunk Lesson 

Excel Document - Table

Bethanie Waldhuter  Top

Choosing a Classroom Pet

This slam dunk lesson is aimed at year 1/2/3 and involves investigating what you need to find out before getting a pet. Students have to look up information on the given websites to find out about how to care for different pets and then decide which pet would be most suitable for the classroom.

Slam dunk lesson

Word Document: 'Choosing a classroom pet' table

Gareth Williams  Top

This Slam Dunk Lesson is aimed at year 5/6 and is for the animal lover. It focuses on jungle animals, with a choice of 5 animals to study. Links are provided to the desired pages to find the information required to complete the Jungle Worksheet.

In The Jungle - Slam Dunk Lesson

The Jungle Worksheet

Patrick Gett  Top

Zane Gibson  Top

Hannah Riley and Sarah Pearce 

Beach Safety  - This slam dunk lesson is about beach safety

Slam Dunk Lesson

Marine Creatures    Flags    Surf condition    Rip Currents

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Slam Dunk Lessons from 2007

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Recycling? a slam dunk lesson on recycling. This lesson is aimed at year leavel 3/4 age being 8/9. It is designed to provide students not only governemtnal information but community based information, including interactive websites they can use and learn with. It is also aimed to provide an awareness on the importance of recycling and the environment.

Created by Sue O'Shaughnessy.

Here is a zip file of my work

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Investigating Water Restrictions a slam dunk lesson aimed at creating environmentally aware Year 6/7 students by Andrew Seyfang.

Here is my Slam Dunk Lesson

example Word Table, comparing restriction levels

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Investigation and evaluation of global and local endangered species aimed at creating environmental and biodiverse responsive students at the Middle years band.

Created by Jodie Williams (2032877)

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Click here for recommended Excel spreadsheet to complete lesson.

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This lesson is designed for the Middle Years band of students. It is aimed that the lesson will assist students in learning about the complexities of various issues such as mulesing, while at the same time developing their critical literacy skills.

Created by Sarah Davis

Click here to view my lesson on Mulesing

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This lesson is for the primary years band and is based on the investigation of the solar system. The students task involves researching the planets, their different aspects, making a table and then choosing an aspect to focus a mini report on.

Created by Sarah Bainbridge

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Healthy Eating' is a Slam Dunk lesson for the primary years band, aimed at years 3, 4 or 5. The lesson is aimed at making students aware of what the food pyramid is, what a serving size is, and what kilojoules are.

Created by Ewa Raubiszko

click here to view my healthy eating slam dunk lesson.

click here for the excel worksheet required.

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Australian Tourist Attractions is a slam dunk lesson aimed at the middle years band. Students are required to research different popular tourist attractions in each state and then choose one to make a brochure on.

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Click here for the table.  

Created by Amy Battista

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How can you make your school more energy efficient? This slam dunk lesson is aimed at upper primary year. The lesson is aimed at giving students knowledge about why they should save energy and what they can do in their own school to save energy. Once they have read the relevant information, they are required to make a brochure summarising what they have learnt.

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Created by Monica Lauterbach 

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Planning a Holiday within a Budget.  This Slam Dunk Lesson is aimed at students in the primary years band (approx. Yr 4/5), to assist them in planning a holiday to Queensland within a given budget, in collaboration with a partner.  They need to think about the best options for flights, accommodation, and include activities in the cost.  Having made their decisions, they need to present their information to the class, outlining reasons for choices.

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Created by Bec Pope and Sally Somers.

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The Arctic animals. This Slam dunk lesson is amined at year 2 students. The aim of the lesson is it to get students to understand about the differences in animals and living conditions within different continents of the world.

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Click here for table needed to complete lesson

Click here for quiz needed to complete lesson

Created by Kate Sheehan

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Bushfires.  This slam dunk lesson is aimed at Middle Years (Year 6).  The focus for learning is to understand the impact of bushfires on Australia and to learn about prevention/protection. 

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Created by David Waters

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Coal Electricity and Alternative forms of producing electicity. In this Slam Dunk Lesson we investigate the effects that coal powered energy has on our enviroment and investigate alternative forms of producing electricity.

Here is the Slam Dunk Lesson

Here is Sample Compare/Contrast

Here is Compare/Contrast to be completed

Here is SACSA guidelines attachment. 

Created by Samantha Coote 

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Water Conservation and Storm Water Pollution. In this Slam Dunk Lesson, year 4/5 students investigate and research what water conservation and storm water pollution is, its effects and prevention methods.

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 Created by Jennifer Wallace

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Using iPods in Schools. In this Slam Dunk lesson, Year 8 students are required to read online articles regarding reasons for banning students from using iPods in schools. They are also required to suggest strategies to overcome these issues and express these ideas in a letter to their principal.

Created by Cendall Slattery

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Water Conservation at school and at home.  Middle School Students are given a place to start their research and must present their knowledge with a partner in the form of a A3 Poster.

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 Jack Egan.

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What is it to be a Japanese Student?

This slam dunk lesson is aimed at students in years 3-5. They are required to research certain aspects of student life in Japan and make a bookelt about themselves as a Japanese Student.

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Tilly Dinham 

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How Healthy Is Your Diet?

This Slam Dunk Lesson is aimed at students year 4/5. They are requied to determine how healthy their own diet is and What influences their daily dietary intakes.

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Created by Mitchell Ollington & Kieran Davidson

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The Koala Problem

This Slam Dunk Lesson, aimed at the Upper Primary year levels, focuses on the problem of Koalas becoming endangered. Students are required to investigate what are Koalas and what problems are they facing in the wild. They will achieve this through creating a table in Microsoft Excel, and then by creating a poster which details the most dangerous threat to the koala population.

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Created by Kristen Clayer (2048126)

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Australian Citizenship

This Slam Dunk Lesson, aimed at upper Middle School students, examines citizenship within Australia. Students are encouraged to review what citizenship is, who is eligible and the future of citizenship applications: testing. Students need to address particular citizenship issues, and reflect on what they think about in regards to citizen applicants being faced with a citizenship test, attending an affirmation ceremony, etc.

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Click here to view the first task.

Click here to view the second task. 

Created by Peter Thorn 

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The European Union

A Slam Dunk Lesson aimed at senior year students in 10, 11, and 12. 
The European Union is Australia’s largest trading partner. But there is much more to this relationship than trade. Find out what it is.

Click here for my Slam Dunk Lesson. Enjoy!

By Peter Drapaniotis

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How do the Internal Organs of the Human Body Work?

This Slam Dunk Lesson is aimed at middle primary (year 4) students, and examines the internal organs of the human body, and how they work. Students are required to research various organs, learn how they function, and display what they have learnt in various formats.

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What makes a good fitness program for soccer players?

This Slam Dunk Lesson features a step-by-step guide to producing a fitness program for a soccer team the student has recently become coach of. It identifies the energy systems needed, the games involved and the ways in which a coach can build a lesson plan from scratch. The lesson also researches nutrition, based on the foods a soccer player must eat. It is aimed at secondary school level.

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By Luke Smith

Click here to view the slideshow

By Matt Wohling

Note: you will need Shockwave installed to run the website linked to this presentation. It can be installed from the site.

Students need to eat a variety of foods everyday to stay healthy. Therefore is is important for students to pack their lunch boxes with plenty of brain foods that are good for them, giving them plenty of energy and tasting great as well! This lesson is aimed at Primary Year levels allowing them to explore the healthy variety of foods we need in our daily lifes. It is a lesson which allows the students to enjoy building their own lunch-box at the same time of understanding what are the right/wrong brain foods to eat. The lesson also allows the students to explore ways of building a healthy sandwich at the same time of understanding the healthy food pyramid.

Simon Manning - Cyber Bullying

Informative lesson on the principles of cyber bullying and how it can be combated. It is suitable for years 6-9.

Slam Dunk Lesson