5 Es

Lesson

Explain

Learning Experience

1. . Gauge Students attention by showing the Short Movie

compilation that the students created in the engage lesson.
2. Referring back to the explore lesson, students will take out their
science books and open up to where they wrote down the
process and their observations of the erupting volcano
experiment.
3. Teacher will put students into groups or 3-4, where they will
create a short 1-2 minute video using the iPads. Key questions
will be written on the whiteboard for students to explain in their
video. Some examples of questions will be:
- What are the different elements of a volcano?
- What happens when a volcano erupts?
- Describe the landscape of an area before and after a volcano
erupts
- Explain the effect an erupting volcano has on the community
4. Ask students to get into their groups to discuss what they can
include in their video. (Use the questions on the whiteboard to
generate discussion).
5. Teacher will provide books, images, descriptions and key words
for students to use throughout the video.
6. Once students have a couple of ideas they will write them down
and decide what each group member will be saying and who will
be talking first, second, third and/or forth. (Each group member
needs to speak/be seen throughout the video).

Assessment

Feedback will be
provided after
watching each
of the groups
videos which
will focus on
students
development,
investigation
skills and their
conceptual
understandings

Cross Curriculum
Literacy &
Numeracy

Resources & ICT

Literacy

iPads

Speaking, writing
and creating oral
and digital texts.

Science journal/pencil

Analyse and
communicate
scientific
information
through a video.

Numeracy
Display information
using real objects
or photographs
and respond to
questions about
the information
displayed.

Volcano books such as:

Into the Volcano by Donna
OMeare.
Volcano wakes up by Lisa
Westberg Peters.
My mouth is a volcano by
Julia Cook.
Volcano Rising by Elisabeth
Rusch.
Harry and the hot lava by
Chris Robertson.
Volcanoes for kids by Simon
Webster.

7. Students will then collect any additional resources they want to

include in their video including books, images, key words, etc, as
well as 1 iPad per group.
8. Using the video camera app already installed on the iPads,
students will then begin filming their video. (Cameraman will
change each time there is a new speaker).
9. Once the videos have been recorded, the students will be
instructed on how to publish it onto the class website, for
parents and their peers to view.
Justification for the Explain lesson
The purpose of the explain lesson in this unit, is to allow students to use
their newly learnt concepts and scientific terms to interpret and explain
information about volcanos in the form of a multimedia video. This
lesson also focuses on working in small groups and having conversations
that stimulate each others thinking at a deeper level. Students are also
using ICT and other resources to present their understanding of
volcanoes at this point in time. Formative assessment will focus on
providing feedback from the videos which will include the students
development, as well as their investigation and conceptual
understandings.

Images from the internet of

volcanos.
Key words on a flashcard e.g.
Lava, Erupting, Volcano,
Magma, etc.