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TERM/WEEKS:

YEAR LEVEL:

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC:

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

Critical and creative

thinking

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures

WEEK/
LESSO
N

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
LINKS

Ethical Behaviour

Personal and social

Competence

Intercultural Understanding

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

SPECIFIC LESSON
OBJECTIVE

ASSESSMENT
(what & how)

Sustainability

TEACHING & LEARNING

EXPERIENCES
(include learner diversity)

KEY
QUESTIONS

RESOURCES

Science
Understan
ding

Lesson
3

Science as
a Human
Endeavou
r

Science
Inquiry
Skills

Students should be
able to describe
relationships that
assist the survival of
living things

Students should be
capable of
demonstrating their
understanding of the
key stages in the life
cycle of a plant or
animal.

Teachers will
assess students
progress on their
Book Creators
through the use of
a rubric; Talking
to each group
individually
throughout the
lesson can assist
this.



Ongoing
assessment of
ability to work in
groups.

The teacher will once again begin this lesson with

a class recap discussion about the previous
lesson.
Students will be asked to nominate one group
member to briefly tell the class one interesting
fact about their topic.

-


Do you know

any other living
things which go
- Teacher will then ask students to pay attention
through a
whilst garage band is introduced linking it to
similar
lifecycles.
lifecycle?


Today you will be creating a song or rap about your

groups animal or plant lifecycle using garage band. You

should aim to write 2 verses and a chorus using a

minimum of 2 instruments. All group members are
expected to play a role we want to hear all of your lovely

singing voices! Make sure you include information about

your animal or plant. We have already recorded one for

you to listen to and be inspired by


- Students will then listen to teachers recording on Has anyone
used Garage
an animal lifecycle through garage band.
band before?
- Teacher will then ask if there are any questions

regarding the aim of the lesson


- The teacher will then walk through the features of

garage band by projecting the i-Pad onto the

projector

Pre-recorded
song about a
selected topics
lifecycle

i-Pad
Projector

Features include:
! Different instruments Keyboard, drums,
guitar and microphone
! How to record both instruments and voices
! How to overlap different recordings
! How to put effects over the recording

Students will then be asked if there are any

questions regarding the task and i-Pads will be
handed out.
Teacher will inform students that they have 15
minutes to complete the task

Once the time is up, students will sit in a

discussion circle with their recordings.
Teacher will then ask a group to volunteer to
share their recording with the class
At the end of the lesson each group will be asked
to upload their recording to their Book Creator.
Students will then be reminded that the next
lesson will be there last on this topic, and to make
sure they have all necessary research and tools
uploaded.

Are there any
questions
about what
youre going to
be doing next?

Who enjoyed
using Garage
band today?

I-Pads one per
group