School Project & Lesson Ideas with Adobe Mapping EdEx teaching resources to the Australian Curriculum

Use this site to be inspired and to inspire other teachers with creative ways to make the most of the following Adobe applications.

Adobe Express - browser and mobile based digital creativity tools (formally Adobe Spark and more) for making graphics, videos, online publications and image manipulation - free for all primary and secondary schools globally.

Adobe Creative Cloud - about 50 desktop/laptop, mobile & web based application and resources.

Key Resources

• Tutorials and user guides for Adobe Express.
• More Adobe Express resources on the Adobe Education Exchange.
• Teaching resources using a range of Adobe Creative Cloud applications on the Adobe Education Exchange.

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Professional learning opportunities

• Professional learning opportunities for Australasian teachers.
• Free and on-demand professional learning courses for teachers on the Adobe Education Exchange.
• Contact the Australasian Adobe Education Team

Contents

• Key resources
• Professional learning opportunities

Learning areas

• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• History
• Geography
• Drama
• Music
• Media Arts
• Visual Arts
• Design and Technologies
• Digital Technologies
• Health and Physical Education
• Extra curricula projects/activities

Extra curricula projects/activities

• Get to know you - infographic activity

English

English Yr 4-10 Australian Curriculum codes that link with most of the following resources:

Yr 4 - ACELA1793, ACELT1605, ACELY1688, ACELY1689, ACELY1697.

Yr 5 - ACELA1797, ACELA1511, ACELT1611, ACELT1798, ACELY1698, ACELY1700, ACELY1704, ACELY1707.

Yr 6 - ACELA1524, ACELT1618, ACELY1708, ACELY1710, ACELY1713, ACELY1714, ACELY1717.

Yr 7 - ACELA1528, ACELA1763, ACELT1619, ACELT1625, ACELY1765, ACELY1804, ACELY1720, ACELY1724, ACELY1725, ACELY1728.

Yr 8 - ACELA1543, ACELA1548, ACELT1630, ACELT1768, ACELY1729, ACELY1808, ACELY1731, ACELY1735, ACELY1736, ACELY1738, 

Yr 9 - ACELA1556, ACELT1637, ACELT1638, ACELY1739, ACELY1811, ACELY1741, ACELY1746, ACELY1747, ACELY1748.

Yr 10 - ACELA1566, ACELA1572, ACELT1815, ACELT1644, ACELY1749, ACELY1813, ACELY1751, ACELY1756, ACELY1776,

English resources

Annotate and analyze a text to show your thinking

This 60-minute lesson helps students track their thinking by learning to annotate a text in Adobe Acrobat.

Levels - Yr 9 to 12

App - Adobe Acrobat

Writing Activities with Adobe Express

In this 30-minute, self-paced Lightning Learning course, you’ll explore tips and strategies to help unlock every student’s writing potential.

For teachers to inspire students

App - Adobe Express

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Produce a video pitching yourself to a company CEO

Students use Adobe Express to craft an "elevator" pitch to a CEO.

Levels - Year 9 to 11

Apps - Adobe Express (Video) or Premiere Rush

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Film a video converting a storyboard into a feature film

In this activity, students engage with storytelling by considering the big question: How do you turn your storyboard into your very first movie? Students watch a video from Pixar in a Box on Khan Academy to learn about the creation of story reels. Then, they use a multi-step process to take their project from storyboard to completed film using Adobe Premiere Rush.

Levels - Year 8 to 10

App - Premiere Rush

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Create an article to document and memorialise remarkable places

This project helps students answer big questions about "place" and our role in it. Placemaking is feature-story writing that documents remarkable places that are cherished, memorialised or historically recognised.

Levels - Years 5 to 10

Apps - Adobe Express, InDesign

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Create a video summarising key takeaways from a text

Students read and analyze a course text and then create a video response with Adobe Premiere Rush.

Levels - Year 10 to 12

Apps - Premiere Rush, Premiere Pro

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Teach storytelling with Adobe, Khan, and Pixar in a Box

In these activities, students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express and Premiere Rush to explore Pixar's unique storytelling framework.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Premiere Rush

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Produce a simple video exploring your life as a reader

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to chronicle their personal reading journey.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Premiere Rush

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Annotate a poem to practice analysis and interpretation

Students use Adobe Acrobat to close-read and annotate a poem.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Acrobat

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Record a video to identify and understand the author's purpose

Students will use Adobe Character Animator to create a cartoon to help younger students understand an important topic.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Premiere Rush

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Shakespeare in the Hot Seat - Deepening Student Understanding

Overview Create a simple real time animation which hot seats an animated William Shakespeare using Adobe Character Animator.

Levels - all

App - Character Animator

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Present a web page analysing social media bias

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create a tutorial verifying claims made on social media.

Levels - Yrs 9 to 12

Apps - Adobe Express, Acrobat

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Produce a video essay identifying literary techniques in poetry

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to annotate and analyse the words of a poem.

Levels - all

Apps - Acrobat, Adobe Express, Premiere Rush

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Design a poster to present grammar and syntax rules

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to demonstrate understanding of syntax rules.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Acrobat

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Produce a web page analysing key scenes in a Shakespearean play

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create a web page to analyse key scenes in a Shakespearean play.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Design a poster to practice persuasive writing

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create a compelling infographic to support a claim.

Levels - Yrs 4 to 8

Apps - Adobe Express, Photoshop

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Mathematics

Present an infographic visualising angles and transversals

Students use Adobe Express to create an image visualising angles in their neighbourhood.

Levels - Year 6 to 12

App - Adobe Express

Annotate math problems to develop a growth mindset

In this activity, students engage with algebra and mathematics by considering the big question: Why is developing a growth mindset important for learning math?

Levels - Year 6 to 12

App - Acrobat

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Design a poster about cooking to learn fractions

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to visualise fractions using examples from baking and cooking.

Levels - Year 4 to 6

Apps - Adobe Express

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Create a poster identifying shapes all around you

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to highlight geometric shapes in their surroundings.

Levels - Yrs 4 to 6

Apps - Adobe Express

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Produce a video about understanding the universe through math

Students use Adobe Premiere Rush to create a video highlighting algebra in the world around us.

Levels - all

Apps - Premiere Rush

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Make an infographic to represent an array

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to depict how arrays can be used for multiplication.

Levels - Yrs 4 to 6

Apps - Adobe Express

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Annotate math problems to develop a growth mindset

Students use Adobe Acrobat to practice factoring polynomials and develop growth mindsets in math.

Levels - Yrs 6 to 12

App - Acrobat

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Create an infographic to visualise triangles in architecture

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to identify and explain similar triangles in the world around them.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Design a poster relating speed, distance, and time

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to understand the relationship between speed, distance, and time.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Design a poster presenting costs for an imaginary store

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create a poster calculating the opening supply costs for a new shop.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Create a presentation to walk through word problem solutions

Students use Adobe XD to create a storybook version of a word problem and its solution.

Levels - all

App - XD

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Create a poster exploring rational numbers as memes

Students use Adobe Photoshop to create math memes about rational and irrational numbers.

Levels - Years 9 to 12

Apps - Photoshop

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On-demand course

Teach Creativity with Adobe and Khan Academy

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Science

Science Yr 4-10 Australian Curriculum codes that link with most of the following resources:

Yr 4 - ACSIS066, ACSIS069, ACSIS071,

Yr 5 - ACSHE081, ACSIS090, ACSIS093.

Yr 6 - ACSIS107, ACSIS108, ACSIS110.

Yr 7 - ACSIS129, ACSIS131, ACSIS133.

Yr 8 - ACSIS144, ACSIS146, ACSIS148.

Yr 9 - ACSIS166, ACSIS174.

Yr 10 - ACSIS200, ACSIS208.

Design an infographic to show mass of a molecular compound

Students use Adobe Express to create an infographic showing a compound's mass.

Levels - Year 6 to 12

App - Adobe Express

Produce a video report on sustainability in a specific region

Students explore the concept of sustainability in a geographic region and showcase their analysis with Adobe Express.

Levels - Year 5 to 10

App - Adobe Express

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Create a sports presentation about the human body

Biology

In this activity, students engage with biology concept by considering the big question: How do the muscular and skeletal systems work together to help us move?

Levels - Year 6 to 12

Apps - Acrobat

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How to diagram cells

Students use Pear Deck and Adobe Express to learn how to diagram cells and create a research poster.

Levels - Year 6 to 12

Apps - Adobe Express

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Create a video about design and the scientific method

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to present experiments conducted using the scientific method. Adobe & Khan Academy.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Create a web page outlining a scientific experiment

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to plan an experiment testing how gases behave under pressure. Adobe & Khan Academy.

Levels - all

Apps - Acrobat, Adobe Express

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Record a climate change public service video

Students use Adobe Premiere Rush to create a public service announcement about the effects of climate change. Adobe & Khan Academy.

Levels - Year 4 to 9

App - Premiere Rush

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Design a virtual zoo display to explore speciation

Students use Adobe XD to create a slide presentation to introduce the concept of speciation to a non-expert audience. Adobe & Khan Academy.

Levels - Year 9 to 12

App - XD

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Produce an explainer video about a scientific concept

Students use Adobe Premiere Rush to teach a friend, classmate, or peer about atomic numbers and isotopes.

Levels - all

App - Premiere Rush

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Design an infographic about natural selection

Students use Adobe Illustrator to design infographics that educate others about natural selection.

Levels - all

App - Illustrator

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Design a phase diagram of water on a new planet

Students use Adobe Illustrator to create a phase diagram for water on a planet with different conditions than Earth.

Levels - Years 6 to 12

App - Illustrator

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Create a sports presentation about the human body

Students use Adobe Acrobat to present research to a team of professional athletes and trainers.

Levels - all

App - Acrobat

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Create an infographic about a STEM concept

Students use Adobe Photoshop to design an infographic explaining Avogadro’s number.

Levels - all

App - Photoshop

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Illustrate a cell diagram as a map

Students use Adobe Illustrator to demonstrate their understanding of cell parts and functions.

Levels - all

App - Illustrator

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Design a poster explaining cell functions

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to design an infographic or poster that explains how cells work.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Create an infographic about DNA and inherited traits

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to visualise the process of inheritance and build a DNA model.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Create a poster representing molecular structures

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create a diagram explaining molecular structures, including atoms and bonds.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Create a Punnett square to analyse heredity

Students use Adobe XD to visualise the probability of different genetic outcomes.

Levels - all

App - XD

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On-demand course

Teach creativity with Adobe and Khan Academy

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History

Design an infographic about a historical figure

Students use Adobe Express to create infographics presenting biographical information about historical figures.

Levels - Year 6 to 12

App - Adobe Express

Create a reflection poster about a historical event

In this lesson by expert educator Cristen Magaletti, students use Photoshop to create posters sharing their thoughts on race, injustice, and law.

Levels - Year 6 to 12

Apps - Adobe Express & Photoshop

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Make a web page comparing two perspectives on an issue

Students share analysis of a similar topic from multiple perspectives with Adobe Creative Cloud Express.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Produce a time travel vacation video from a historical period

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create a travel video describing a historical period they would like to travel to.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Acrobat

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Present a web page analysis of a primary source document

Students use Adobe Acrobat to analyze a primary source and then use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to publish their analysis.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Acrobat

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Make a multimedia biography for a historical figure

This 2- to 5-hour lesson plan empowers students to bring research about a historical figure to life by creating a presentation with Adobe Creative Cloud Express.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Acrobat

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Create a video diary from the perspective of a key character

Students use Adobe Premiere Rush to create a short video diary from the perspective of a character in a Shakespearean play.

Levels - all

Apps - Premiere Rush

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Design an infographic about a historical figure

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create infographics presenting biographical information about historical figures.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Photoshop

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Make a web site to share a "SMART" goal

In this Growth Mindset "SMART" goal activity, primary and secondary school students will reflect on a big question: How can you set a great goal and ensure you can accomplish it?

Levels - Year 5 to 10

App - Adobe Express (Web page)

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Produce a short stop-motion movie on any topic

Students use Adobe Premiere Rush to create stop-motion films on compelling topics.

Levels - Years 9 to 12

App - Rush

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Create a video news story covering a past event

Students use Adobe Premiere Pro to create a short newscast.

Levels - Yrs 9 to 12

Apps - Premiere Rush, Premiere Pro

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Present an infographic comparing different perspectives

Students learn how to write a strong claim, distinguish it from opposing claims, and present it in poster form with Adobe Creative Cloud Express.

Levels - all

Apps - CC Express, Photoshop

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Produce a video about the importance of identifying sources

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to explain why you should always research sources for information.

Levels - Yrs 5 to 10

Apps - Adobe Express, Premiere Rush

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Design a meme to comment on a historical event

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create and explain a meme satirising an event from history.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Premiere Rush

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Create a video tour of a historical era

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to explore the key locations and moments of a historical era.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Premiere Rush

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Create social media posts for a historical figure

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to craft social media posts for an important person from history.

Levels - Yrs 9 to 12

Apps - Adobe Express, Illustrator

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Produce a video graphic novel version of a historical event

Students use Adobe Premiere Rush to adapt events from history into video graphic novels.

Levels - all

Apps - Premiere Rush, Adobe Express, Audition

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Geography

Design a travel brochure about one of Earth's biomes

Students use Adobe Express to create a travel brochure about an assigned biome.

Levels - Year 4 to 10

Apps - Adobe Express

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Create a video about your past or future travels

Students use Adobe Premiere Rush to create a travel vlog about places they have visited or want to visit.

Levels - Yrs 4 to 8

Apps - Adobe Express, Premiere Rush, Premiere Pro

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Creating a 30 second video to explain a concept.

Teachers have very little time free outside of their allotted preparation time. Therefore planning and creating learning resources needs to be simple and speedy.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Make a web page presenting a virtual tour of a location

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to explore the role of setting and locations within a novel.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express, Acrobat

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Make multimedia resources to build creativity in your classroom

Students explore three simple tutorials to help them get started with Adobe Creative Cloud Express in their classroom.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Produce a mini-documentary exploring a topic of your choice

Students use Adobe Premiere Rush to create mini-documentaries on topics that interest them.

Levels - all

Apps - Premiere Rush, Premiere Pro

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Design a tourism poster about the impacts of global trade

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create a poster about trade's role in shaping culture and history.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Music

Audio Mix Project

In this project students will cut out clips of their favourite songs and using the lyrics they will mash them together to make a song mix.

Levels - all

App - Audition

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Produce a podcast to deepen your knowledge of a subject area

Students create a podcast interview with Adobe Audition.

Levels - all

App - Audition

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Student Created Instrumental Music Demo Videos

Students will create a demonstration video for the skills or procedures they have learned in a music classroom.

Levels - all

Apps - Premiere Rush

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Media Arts

Create a Unique Vector Emoji

Analyse and recreate the distinct emoji look and create a unique emoji for a universal or specific feeling or experience.

Levels - all

App - Illustrator

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Visual Arts

Illustrate a concept from modern art with a poster

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express and objects from their surroundings to bring art to life.

Levels - Year 5 to 9

App - Adobe Express

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Food Truck Challenge

In this assignment, students will work collaboratively to develop a concept for a food truck. Students will need to brainstorm, sketch, and create a finished project that includes a logo, menu, and food truck wrap.

Levels - Year 4 to 7

Apps - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

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Design a poster to experiment with colour, light, and tone

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to practice telling a story with light, tone, and colour.

Levels - all

Apps - Adobe Express

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Design and Technologies

Create a graphic to map out key components in a system

Students use Adobe Illustrator to map and identify the components of a system.

Levels - Years 9 & 10

Apps - Illustrator

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Digital Technologies

Create an interactive prototype for a review app

In this 1-hour activity, the third of a five-part sequence, students will build and test a working prototype of their ecology review app. Students will use Adobe XD The principles of user experience (UX) design create an interactive prototype that builds on their wireframe design and gives function to their form. While still not a finished design, interactive prototypes allow UX designers to demo a fully functional app experience for their testers, allowing for more meaningful and useful feedback.

Levels - Years 9 to 12

App - XD

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Designing for Voice - How to Prototype Voice Command Interactions in Adobe XD

Ever wondered how Siri, Alexa or Google Voice technology is created? It's more straight-forward than you think!

As voice recognition technology becomes increasingly more prominent in our 21st century existence, how do we design for an interactive interface we cannot see?

In this tutorial, learn how to prototype using Adobe XD, and designing an app where users interact with digital media via voice commands.

You can have a go yourself as Adobe XD is free to download! Who knew designing for voice and an emerging technology could be so simple?

Levels - Years 9 to 12

App - XD

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Smartphone Apps Design Marathon

The overall goal of the Smartphone Apps Design Marathon is to introduce mobile application development to high school ICT students to be able to Define, Design, Develop and Deploy mobile apps technologies currently dominating the new media market and the mobile industry.

Levels - Years 9 to 12

Apps - Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, XD

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stay tuned - more to come

Health and Physical Education

Mental Health Through The Eyes of Creative Students!

In this project, the students will:

• Watch a video on Mental Health Awareness - Why Is Mental Health Important? using the link provided;
• Make a poster using Adobe Express showing their understanding on the effects of stress and anxiety to mental health.
• Create their own tagline depicting their support on the awareness of mental health.

Levels - Years 6 to 9

Apps - Adobe Express

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Mental Health Matters

In this project the students will

• Make their own poster design using Adobe Spark about Mental Health Awareness
• Design their own poster with taglines and unique messages supporting the advocacy in Mental health Awareness

Levels - Years 5 to 12

Apps - Adobe Express

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Illustrating the Impact

This 30-minute lesson plan gives students a chance to take an abstract movement such as Black Lives Matter or school spirit and make it concrete with imagery. Using their images from an earlier photography assignment where they worked to develop their theme with a small group, in Adobe Photoshop, students will use the pen tool as well as learn to apply blending modes to enhance the black and white image or to enhance the most dominant colour captured in the photo.

Levels - Years 9 to 12

App - Photoshop

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Health and wellbeing project - for early years

A set of resources for F-3 focused on understanding different feelings and emotions.

Levels - F to 3

Apps - Adobe Express

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Extra curricula projects/activities

Student infographic challenge: remix a template to express your identity

Infographic template for Creative Cloud Express

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Create a poster presenting a public service announcement

Students use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to write and share a public service announcement.

Levels - all

Apps - CC Express, Photoshop

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