Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level:

Time: 12:50-1:40

Date: 26/02/15

Learning Area: Science

Students Prior Knowledge:

- Three lessons on plant and animal cells,
including their structure and functions
- A chance to view cells under a microscope in
real time

Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum

Biological sciences
Cells are the basic units of living things and have
specialised structures and functions (ACSSU149)
General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Critical and
Literacy
Numeracy
ICT
competence

Ethical
behaviour

creative thinking

Personal and
Social
competence

Intercultural
understanding

Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
histories and cultures
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

Sustainability

Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of this lesson, in point form beginning with an action verb)
As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:

List the steps of mitosis

Understand what the process does

Recognise that cells divide by mitosis

Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation:
-

Prepared a video using wideo.com

Prepared a Kahoot quiz
Make sure video and quiz pages are ready to go
and at the right volume
Ensured all kids had working and charged iPads
and headphones if necessary
Uploaded resources to the class website

Provision for students at educational risk:

-

Headphones for the child with hearing

difficulties
Visual and hearing risk students at the front
facing teacher
Extra resources for kids who need to be
challenged that look at mitosis in more detail
than expected in their Capzle

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:

Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:

[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:

LESSON DELIVERY (attach worksheets, examples, marking key, etc, as relevant)

Time

Motivation and Introduction:

12:50pm

1. Recap what they have learnt so far by class discussion

2. Play the Video

Resources/References
http://www.wideo.co/view/8438931424945685690-mitosisintroduction-year-8

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key

Questions):
1:00 pm

1. Write the instructions on the board:

Your task today is to research cell division, there are
resources on the website for you to use and your textbook
will be useful too
Need to create some slides (photo or video) to finish your
Capzle by answering these questions
1. Define Mitosis
2. Explain what it does in the human body
3. Explain briefly how it works and the steps
4. List two organisms that undergo binary fission and define
it.

1:30pm
1:35pm

On the website you will find some links with questions to

answer, be sure to go through all of these and write the
answers into your notebook, these will become notes and
will make it easier to complete your Capzle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome
http://www.cellsalive.com/gallery.htm
http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0072495855/
student_view0/chapter2/animation
__mitosis_and_cytokinesis.html

2. Hand out class iPads, allow 30 minutes for activity

3. Early finishers are to ensure Capzle is totally finished and
link is emailed to teacher.
4. Students who are ahead are to give a more detailed
account of the steps in mitosis
5. Kahoot quiz!
Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)
1. Survey questions on these web based lessons
2. Email teacher link to your Capzle if completed
3. Gather up iPads

Survey questions under the How Did You Go?

Page on cellbiology101.weebly.com

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next

lesson?)
1. Students will need to watch the video online and read the
next chapter before next week in preparation for the next
section on Protista


Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will
these be judged?)