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Themes and Topics	Skills	Formats
Me, Myself and I  Behaviour Fitness and Sports Systems of the Body Diseases and Disabilities Working and Careers Small Business My Home: Australia  Explorers Famous Aboriginals Primary Industries Aboriginal Issues Today Political System Multiculturalism Animals  Dinosaurs Endangered Aussie Animals Reptiles Dangerous Creatures Spiders Endangered World Animals Our World  Marine Life Conservation and Recycling Plants Energy in the Home Global Warming Movement and Machines Other Cultures and Countries  Olympic Games Natural Wonders of World Ancient Egypt / Japan Tourism Indonesia / Singapore International Trade America / Europe Earth and Beyond  Stars, Eclipses, Comets Measuring Time Space Exploration / UFOs Rocks, Minerals, Soil Celestial Bodies, Black Hole Natural Disasters Celebrations  Christmas Easter Special Days	General  touch typing renaming, deleting files backing up Visual Arts  showing perspective using gradients effectively creating technical drawings creating animations manipulating graphics using scanner and camera Desktop Publishing  cutting, copying, pasting text inserting symbols using tabs inserting column/page breaks using outline format using 'Word Art' headings creating watermarks Presentation  grouping and layering objects using and manipulating graphics considering readability considering page layout adding appropriate sound Information Processing  using desktop publishing skills to sort and present text and graphics from CD-ROM and the Internet citing references proposing new ideas based on this research Communication  adding/reading attachments sending and receiving files using the local network Spreadsheets  modifying graphs using formulae interpreting and using results Programming  creating and using logical sequences of commands	English  recipes, reviews, reports coupons, vouchers ID cards, passports certificates, resumes Maths  spreadsheets graphs polygons, tessellations, nets angles, geometric shapes fractions Logo programming Visual Arts  scenes with perspective technical drawings with labels modifying clipart animations for web pages using scanned images Social Studies / Science / Health & PE  pamphlet flier or advertisement newsletter booklet slide shows interactive stacks web pages videos