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**Stage 1: Digging in Deep ** The Great Barrier Reef is a perfect platform for our young Stage 1 e~TASC students to engage with up to date scientific research and the impacts this has on the environment and human activity. The students will have the opportunity to enhance their creative and critical thinking skills through the use of “Thinkers Keys”. Students will also work within preferred modes of intelligences and participate in real world problem solving. **Stage 2: Digging up the Past ** Scientists try to understand as much as possible about life of the past. Students will be immersed in the science of palaeontology enhancing their creative and critical thinking skills within the Williams and Kaplan learning models. **Stage 3/4: Digging up the Truth ** As a community we value the truth: we teach it to our children, punish people who don’t tell it, and even make laws that require it. The truth can be slippery, as we try to establish it, preserve it, handle it, believe it, stretch it, avoid it, seek it and understand it. So what is truth and how do we use it? Philosophers have been arguing about this for centuries. How can something we talk about every day be so difficult to define, explain and apply? This e~TASC unit will try to dig up just enough ‘truth’ to scratch the surface of this concept for our students. We will explore the concept through philosophy, forensic science, film, poetry, literature, art/photography, HSIE and maths. There will be curly questions and lots of thinking, but the truth will unfold....

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Diana Laufenberg TED

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Emily Bear

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