Close reading of brochures, posters, advertisements, articles, reports Discuss the effectiveness of the layout, font, colour, lettering, text placement and language features. Bus Stop with questions designed to get the students to think critically about the effectiveness, etc. of the brochure. Students to read and discuss semiotics - the visual symbols used for road safety, water safety, first aid, orienteering. Students to read and discuss the cropping of photos and posters. Use digital camera and video throughout the unit.
Students use the digital camera to record events.
Photos can be used to produce group writing on events and downloaded to use in the brochures. Presentation Encourage students to use a range of writing and presentation forms, eg. cartoons, timelines, flow charts, retrieval charts, mind mapping , concept mapping , brochure, poster, article, survey results, summarisation of data, graphs. Producing a Brochure Students to research one of the EOC activities to present a brochure. Assessment Task Students to produce and present a brochure using verbal and visual features to communicate information based on one of the above outdoor education activities. Written instructions and explanations about one of the EOC activities.