Your optional five-area… | Year 9 Subjects · T1 W3–4 · Learner Copy

All people, places, votes, readings, costs, products and scenarios here are invented classroom material, except clearly named general science/civics principles that have sources in the source ledger. A model is not a real test or approval. Each card takes about 12 minutes. Pick the area's one card for today, not all five unless your teacher has planned extra time. You may use a numbered paper/tactile sort, a written or marked answer, or speech/sign/AAC and learner-directed placement. Your teacher can offer a more specific A/B/C route. Say which source detail supports your choice and one thing it cannot show. Movement/art performance is recorded only if actually done; directing or planning is valuable evidence of other skills.

Day 11

Science: Use atmosphere / plant / soil labels. Show atmospheric CO₂ → plant carbon for photosynthesis, then a possible respiration return arrow. Name one amount the arrows do not give.
HASS: Fictional route A to Library L is 12 minutes with no step-free information. Route B is 7 + 10 minutes and marked step-free in the imaginary timetable. Which is quicker? Which question is still necessary before advising a real traveller?
HPE: Fictional club invitation says “Only fast runners may join.” Rewrite it with meaningful role choices and a way to ask participants what works.
Technologies: In <h1>Shared-tool desk</h1><p>Return slot: 3 pm.</p>, separate words (content) from tags (structure). What does h1 { color: navy; } change, and what does it leave alone?
Arts · Dance: Make or direct eight comfortable counts from reach / fold / pause / return. Lengthen one pause and explain the intended change. Say whether you performed, directed or only planned.

Day 12

Science: Sort three descriptions: plants take atmospheric CO₂ in photosynthesis; living organisms release CO₂ in respiration; burning fuel releases CO₂ in combustion. Which cannot all be labelled respiration?
HASS: Fictional repair club plans 30 notebooks by Route North or 22 by Route South; reliability and impacts are unknown. Draw a dependency and suggest what evidence a decision needs beyond planned quantity.
HPE: A fictional member says, “Please ask before moving my materials.” Give one respectful question and one fair way to continue if the answer is no.
Technologies: Toy rule: a digit before a symbol means repeat it. Encode AAAAABBCC and ABCDEF; compare each original length with its encoded length. This is not a real file format.
Arts · Dance: Imaginary feedback says, “I noticed the return, but missed the pause.” Revise yesterday's eight counts and name the exact timing change. Presentation is optional.

Day 13

Science: Plan a paper-only comparison of how far an identical paper disc would travel from a ramp raised by one versus two support blocks. Keep disc, ramp surface and release point constant. Write a prediction, not a result.
HASS · History method: Two newly written simulations, not archive sources: Card A imitates an “1884 note” saying “The tool wheel broke before the second shift”; Card B is a present-day-style label saying “The note suggests a delay.” If A were authenticated, which kind of source might it be? What origin/date/context checks are missing now?
HPE: Imaginary advertisement claims one five-minute stretch “guarantees perfect sleep for everyone.” Identify two words needing evidence and write a fairer source question. This poster is not health advice.
Technologies: Toy rule: READY only if a label is readable and a reviewer flag is true. Trace all four true/false combinations by cards, text table or optional offline code.
Arts · Drama: Two fictional exhibition volunteers find an unlabelled cardboard circle. Make or direct a 30-second scene with a goal, obstacle, pause, question and focus change.

Day 14

Science: Four invented arbitrary-unit readings are 12, 13, 12, 20; the fourth card's boundary label moved before reading. Mark all four, then propose a careful recheck without deleting 20.
HASS · Civics: Real rule: a constitutional referendum needs national yes majority and yes majority in at least four of six states. Imaginary six states each have 100 votes; yes totals 80, 80, 80, 45, 45, 45, and territories together add 30 yes/70 no. Check both conditions, and label the whole tally fictitious.
HPE: With a teacher-approved soft paper disc and clear tabletop, choose a safe gentle placement/roll, directed demonstration, or paper-only plan. Change one movement factor and record what was actually observed; a plan is not performance.
Technologies: Mock booking form asks for slot, item code, nickname, home address, birth date and favourite song. Which fields can be removed for a simple paper reservation task, and what would a real service need to justify?
Arts · Drama: A new fictional note says the circle was left unlabelled on purpose to invite questions. Change one Day13 line or action so the volunteer's motive changes.

Day 15 · new-case formative prompts

Your teacher introduces the chosen area's Day15 check: Science carbon-model, HASS route/referendum, HPE inclusive team, Technologies codec/logic, or Arts media frames. The prompts and teacher explanations are publicly available in the library; these are not secure exams. Give a first response if the case is new to you, or ask for a locally new equivalent. Work through a labelled card, text/table or dictated/AAC route. State what you can and cannot infer.

Day 16

Science: Compare a sound source in air with the same imagined source in a vacuum. Use a neighbouring-dot motion model. Explain what happens to mechanical sound transfer and what the dots do not measure.
HASS · Civics: Imaginary post says “Everyone wants late opening.” Its made-up tally has 12 yes and 6 no from 18 responses, with no sampling method. Write a precise statement and ask who might be missing.
HPE: Choose a school-approved light two-minute movement, direct someone willing, or observe. Set a non-comparative aim and note whether participation was actually observed. One try is not a fitness outcome.
Technologies: Fictional paper instruction-card stand needs legibility at one desk position, to stand 30 seconds in a paper demonstration and use one sheet. Write a testable brief, not a promise of a safe product.
Arts · Media Arts: Original paper frames are closed cardboard box / hand adds a label / box opens to blank paper. Arrange all three for a Year 9 audience, then explain how showing only the first frame changes an inference.

Day 17

Science: Compare a crest–trough–crest strip with a neighbouring-dot strip. Which representation helps which question about a disturbance moving through air? Name one omission.
HASS · Economics: Invented repair-stall chain: customer requests a fix, business orders a part, bank processes a payment, council sets venue rules. Show two dependencies without inventing a real price.
HPE: Fictional tabletop passing game gives every turn to one player. Devise, test or direct a fairer turn rule and ask whether each willing person has a meaningful choice.
Technologies: Imaginary stand tests: A stands 20 seconds and its label can be read; B stands 35 seconds but partly hides its label. Does either meet all Day16 criteria? Propose one next change.
Arts · Music: Use the original quiet pulse or silent score tap / rest / tap / tap / rest / tap / rest / tap. Compose exactly eight boxes with at least two rests and one dynamic mark; performance is optional.

Day 18

Science: In 2H₂ + O₂ → 2H₂O, count hydrogen and oxygen atoms on each side using letter counters or a text table. Explain why changing a subscript would change the formula, not balance the original equation.
HASS · Economics: Imaginary shelf A costs 30 credits for 15 planned uses; B costs 45 for 30 planned uses. Compare credits per planned use and give two other criteria needed before selecting either.
HPE: A fictional peer holds the only soft ball; someone else wants it now. Offer a respectful request, an acceptable refusal and a process if the refusal is ignored. No live personal disclosure is needed.
Technologies: Fold or direct a one-sheet paper card stand if your teacher approves, or write an untested plan. Record what you actually tested against the Day16 brief and one change you would make.
Arts · Music: Add a second distinct layer to your eight-box score, entering at box 5. Show two aligned rows and explain how the texture changes; label any actual rehearsal/presentation.

Day 19

Science: Fictional note says “One paper model worked once; therefore it is reliable for all classrooms.” Write a peer-review memo with a missing method detail, fairer claim and reproducible next check.
HASS · History method: Two invented present-day captions interpret the simulated Day13 wheel note: “poor maintenance caused the break” and “it may have been an isolated accident”. Neither establishes actual history. Which source would a historian need, and what might remain unknown?
HPE: Imaginary team meeting moves to Room B at 3:10 but door/access details are missing. Plan a multi-format update, a voluntary contact role and one check that people received it.
Technologies: Fictional batch plan: ten stands, 2 paper credits each plus 5 setup credits, 20 minutes to make and 10 to check. Calculate planned total credits/time, then add a legibility risk and control.
Arts · Visual Arts: Use an original folded-paper bridge icon beside a circle. Make or direct two small compositions with different thick/thin line and empty space; choose one and state its intended viewer effect.

Day 20 · new-case formative prompts

Your teacher introduces the chosen area's Day20 check: Science wave/atom model, HASS source/choice, HPE shared-space rule, Technologies desk-pocket brief, or Arts visual composition. The public prompt and key support teaching; a locally unseen equivalent is appropriate when a first encounter matters. Keep your first work, show one exact detail and one stated limit, then use feedback for a next attempt.

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