Round the Twist Education Resources 40 Curriculum Activities based on the Round the Twist TV Series Table of Contents Page Summary of Round the Twist Curriculum Activities 3 A Fair Go 13 A Good Tip for Ghosts 19 Birdsdo 21 Copy Cat 23 Follow that Dream 27 From Book to TV Show: Is it Twisted? 37 Grandad’s Gifts 51 Ice Maiden 53 Know All 55 Lighthouse Blues A 59 Lighthouse Blues B 61 Little Black Balls 63 Little Squirt 65 Little Squirt B 67 Lucky Lips 69 Mind Games 72 Mob Mentality 82 Nails 86 Next Time Around 90 Pink Bow Tie 92 Quivering Heap 94 Ready or Not 96 Research with the Skunkman 106 Santa Claws 114 Seeing The Light 116 Skeleton On The Dunny 120 Sloppy Jalopy 122 Smelly Feet 124 Spaghetti Pig Out 126 Star Quality 128 The Cabbage Patch Fib 130 The Cabbage Patch Fib B 132 The Copy 134 The Gum Leaf War 138 The Way We Were 140 What Happens? Analysing A Television Program 148 Without My Pants 152 Without My Pants B 154 Wunderpants 156 Yuckles 158 2 © Australian Children's Television Foundation (except where otherwise indicated). You may use, download and reproduce this material free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes provided you retain all acknowledgements associated with the material. Summary of Round the Twist Curriculum Activities 1. Round The Twist - A Fair Go (P. 13) This lesson is the third of a set of three that use episode 6 of Round the Twist 3 as a means of examining film as text, developing visual literacy, and exploring a range of social issues. Resource Description This lesson is the third of a set of three that use episode 6 of Round the Twist 3 as a means of examining film as text, developing visual literacy, and exploring a range of social issues. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English, Ethical Understanding, Humanities and Social Sciences, Media Arts (The Arts) Themes: justice, values 2. Round The Twist - A Good Tip for Ghosts (P. 19) Resource Description These activities focus on the notion of the continuing narrative and tension and suspense in narrative. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English Themes: relationships, self 3. Round The Twist – Birdso (P. 21) With these activities students explore the concept of sub-plots, compare the book version of a story with the TV version, learn about point of view shots as a camera technique. Resource Description With these activities students explore the concept of sub-plots, compare the book version of a story with the TV version, learn about point of view shots as a camera technique. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English 4. Round The Twist - Copy Cat (P. 23) These activities explore the use of realism and magic in film. The activities related to Next Time Around also explore the concept of continuing narrative and embedded sexism in the English language. Resource Description These activities explore the use of realism and magic in film. The activities related to Next Time Around also explore the concept of continuing narrative and embedded sexism in the English language. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English Themes: relationships, self 3 © Australian Children's Television Foundation (except where otherwise indicated). You may use, download and reproduce this material free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes provided you retain all acknowledgements associated with the material. 5. Round The Twist - Follow that Dream (P. 27) These activities will work effectively individually or as part of a unit of work about popular culture, contemporary Australia, heroes and legends, or work and leisure. Resource Description These activities will work effectively individually or as part of a unit of work about popular culture, contemporary Australia, heroes and legends, or work and leisure. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English, Ethical Understanding, Humanities and Social Sciences, Media Arts (The Arts) Themes: justice, relationships, self, values 6. Round The Twist - From Book To TV Show: Is It Twisted? (P. 37) Resource Description In this lesson students critically analyse the conversion of a storybook to film form and use tools including a venn diagram and text retrieval chart to analyse the process. Year Level: Middle Primary (4-5), Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English 7. Round The Twist - Grandad's Gifts (P. 51) Resource Description With this set of activities students analyse narrative structure in fantasy stories and the notion of poetic justice. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English Themes: relationships, self 8. Round The Twist - Ice Maiden (P. 53) Resource Description With these activities students explore the concept of sub-plots and satire. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English 9. Round The Twist - Know All (P. 55) Resource Description These activities draw on Know All to examine the nature of gender stereotyping in the community, in films and in advertising. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English, Humanities and Social Sciences 4 © Australian Children's Television Foundation (except where otherwise indicated). You may use, download and reproduce this material free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes provided you retain all acknowledgements associated with the material. 10. Round The Twist - Lighthouse Blues A (P. 59) Resource Description Lighthouse Blues provides a resolution to the first series of Round the Twist and is thus useful for teaching about the concept of resolution. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English 11. Round The Twist - Lighthouse Blues B (P. 61) Resource Description Students explore the conflict between environmentalists and developers and how film makers encourage the audience to support one side of an issue. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: Humanities and Social Sciences 12. Round The Twist - Little Black Balls (P. 63) Resource Description Students learn how film narratives may be derived from familiar fairy tales. They learn about constraints on narrative structure in TV series, and film language including acting and camera techniques. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English 13. Round The Twist - Little Squirt (P. 65) Resource Description These activities explore narrative structure and myth and humor in storytelling. They give students an opportunity to explore these concepts through viewing examples and writing a creative essay. Year Level: Middle Primary (4-5), Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English 14. Round The Twist - Little Squirt B (P. 67) Students consider the conservation v development debate, develop guidelines for development of a local area, and research how environmental awareness has been expressed in myths and legends. Resource Description 5 © Australian Children's Television Foundation (except where otherwise indicated). You may use, download and reproduce this material free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes provided you retain all acknowledgements associated with the material. Students consider the conservation v development debate, develop guidelines for development of a local area, and research how environmental awareness has been expressed in myths and legends. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: Humanities and Social Sciences 15. Round The Twist - Lucky Lips (P. 69) Resource Description These activities compare the written story with the film version and examine camera techniques. Students write a storyboard and discuss gender relations as they are represented in Lucky Lips. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English Themes: relationships, self 16. Round The Twist - Mind Games (P. 72) This is a useful episode to lead into the topics of the human body, power and control or science and experimentation. Students also discuss the role of the brain, how we learn and how we think. Resource Description These activities compare the written story with the film version and examine camera techniques. Students write a storyboard and discuss gender relations as they are represented in Lucky Lips. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English, Humanities and Social Sciences, Media Arts (The Arts) Themes: relationships, self 17. Round The Twist - Mob Mentality (P. 82) Resource Description This lesson is the second of a set of three that use episode 6 of Round the Twist 3 as a means of examining film as text, developing visual literacy, and exploring a range of social issues. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English, Ethical Understanding, Humanities and Social Sciences, Media Arts (The Arts) Themes: bullying, justice, values 18. Round The Twist – Nails (P. 86) Resource Description With these activities students study the craft of writing. The video program also provides stimulus material for exploring adolescence. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English Themes: genre 6 © Australian Children's Television Foundation (except where otherwise indicated). You may use, download and reproduce this material free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes provided you retain all acknowledgements associated with the material. 19. Round The Twist - Next Time Around (P. 90) Resource Description Students explore plots and sub-plots in TV programs and study the creation of characters designed to provoke a strong response in the audience. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English 20. Round The Twist - Pink Bow Tie (P. 92) Students explore the concepts of flash backs and flash forwards, running jokes and their purpose in film narrative. They also consider the relationship between story titles and the narrative. Resource Description Students explore the concepts of flash backs and flash forwards, running jokes and their purpose in film narrative. They also consider the relationship between story titles and the narrative. Year Level: Middle Years (5-9) Curriculum Study Areas: English 21.