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Frida's Fiesta: Open for Business - Inquiry Project
PDF | 11 pages|Grades: 4 - 6An inquiry project where students get the opportunity to design their own restaurant.
Welcome to Frida’s Fiesta, the world’s greatest Mexican-style restaurant.
This teaching resource is an inquiry project that gives students the opportunity to design their own restaurant. Students will need to include ideas around design, profit, opening hours, menu and logos.
Students will get to choose their restaurants
- name
- cuisine
- location
- design
- logo
This project is recommended to be completed prior to completing other Frida’s Fiesta projects and activities to get a background knowledge of the stimulus. Check out the other projects and activities in the Frida’s Fiesta Resource Collection.
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELY1686
Identify and explain language features of texts from earlier times and compare with the vocabulary, images, layout and content of contemporary textsElaborationsviewing documentaries and news footage from different periods, comparing the style of pres...
- ACELY1690
Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the textElaborationsdescribing the language which authors use to create imaginary worlds; how textual features such as headings, subheadings...
- ACELY1691
Read different types of texts by combining contextual , semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewingElaborationsreading new and different kinds of texts with...
- ACELY1692
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating textsElaborationsmaking connections between the text and studentsâ own experience and oth...
- ACELY1701
Identify and explain characteristic text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the textElaborationsexplaining how the features of a text advocating community action, for example ...
- ACELY1702
Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanningElaborationsbringing subject and technical vocabulary and concept knowledge...
- ACELY1703
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sourcesElaborationsusing research skills including identifying research purpose, locating texts, gathering and organising informati...
- ACELY1711
Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a textElaborationscomparing the structures and features of different texts, including print and digital sources on similar topics, and evaluating which features be...
- ACELY1712
Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadingsElaborationsbringing subject and...
- ACELY1713
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital textsElaborationsmaking connections between the text and studentsâ own experience or oth...
- ACMMG109
Calculate perimeter and area of rectangles using familiar metric units
- ACMMG13
- ACMMG290
Compare objects using familiar metric units of area and volume
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This looks great!!!
Melanie · Dec 31st, 2019
Hey Melanie, thank you for taking the time to share your excitement and support. I hope your class has find giving this project a go this year!
Royce (Teach Starter) · Jan 2nd, 2020