Music

=What do you know about current and past Australian pop music?=

Over the next few weeks we will be finding out about Australian pop music and creating some posters about what we find.

__Week 5: The Top 40__

 * Have a look at the top 40 music chart
 * Write down in a **word document** all the songs which are Australian
 * How many songs are Australian?
 * How did you find out which songs were Australian and which were not?

__Week 6: The Aria Awards__
The Aria Awards are the Australian Music Awards.
 * Have a look at the Aria Awards 2012 homepage
 * Pick **three** Australian artists or groups which won an Aria in 2012
 * Write down the following information about each artist or group in a **word document**:
 * The name of the artist or group
 * What Aria they received and the title of the song or album they received the Aria for
 * What style of music the artist or group plays
 * Where the artist or group is from
 * When they released their first album

__Week 7-11: Australia Sounds Good__
Over the next few weeks you will be finding out some more information about one Australian artist or group. You will need to choose an Australian artist or group to do some research about and then create a poster to share with the rest of the class what you have learnt. We will be researching our artists or groups in weeks 7 and 8 and then working on presenting our information as a poster in weeks 9, 10 and 11. You will need to:


 * Decide on **who** you want to research, find as much information as you can about them. A good place to start is only2clicks.
 * **Find a focus** for your research by creating some questions you want to find the answers to.
 * **Collect** your information in a **word document** - don't forget to include your references - TAUDD - Title, Author, URL, Date created, Date accessed- for each website used.
 * **Sort** it and determine how you want to **present** your findings (in your own words) to the class.
 * **Present** your work.
 * **Assess** how you went.

//Some other Websites you could look at are:// or
 * radio station websites playlists, NovaFM 2day Take 40 lists TripleM Australia Day Playlist
 * music awards websites. Country music awards of Australia 2013 Aria Awards 2012 National Indigenous Music Awards 2012