Lesson Plan Template 1 Primary & Secondary

Unit/Topic: Design

Date: 22/09/15

Year 6/7

LESSON OUTCOMES:
-

Use project management processes when working collaboratively to coordinate production

of designed solutions.
Generate, develop, test and communicate design ideas, plans and processes for various
audiences using appropriate technical terms and technologies including graphical
representation techniques.
Develop projected plans that include consideration of resources when making designed
solutions individually and collaboratively.

LESSON STRUCTURE:
Time
10
mins

Introduction (Set):
What are we doing?
- Designing, creating and reflecting
- Designing a tall tower using straws and tape.
- The tallest tower wins
- Creating the tallest tower using the straws and tape
- Reflecting on this process.
Allocate groups
- No more than 4 to a group
- Cover group expectations
- Everyone contributes to the designing and making
process.
- Encouraging and welcoming all ideas.

Time

Main Content:

10
mins

Design: In groups design the tower using an A4 sheet of

paper.
- While they are designing hand out the materials

Time

Main Content (Continued)

Teaching Approaches

Outline of what is expected

Teaching Approaches
Small group work

Teaching Approaches

20- 30
mins

5 mins

Time

Make/ Create:
- The groups should have all the equipment
needed
- Work together to build their tower
- The tallest wins
Judging:
- Who has the tallest tower?
- Why is it the tallest? What techniques did they
use?

Conclusion:
Reflection:
- Write reflection questions on board for students
to complete in their workbooks.
Other work from previous lesson
- Students can finish unfinished work once
completed this task.

RESOURCES
(Include equipment required for class and/or for teacher preparation)
Straws- even amount for each group
Tape
Camera
Paper and pens

Small group work

As a class/ group discussion

Teaching Approaches
Individual work

Done if there is time at the end

of the lesson.

SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS/MATERIALS
Scissors may be used
Students may flick straws around, or cut them in a way that could poke someone

ASSESSMENT
The design, creation and reflection may all be a component of assessment

REFLECTION
Overall I feel this lesson went really well. At the beginning some students did not want to participate in
the lesson, but after speaking to them I was able to get them to join in and enjoy the lesson. All of the
students were engaged throughout the lesson. It was interesting to watch how they worked in their group
and the ideas the groups came up with. The students answered their reflection questions appropriately
with detailed answers. I felt I spoke clearly and confidently which was reflected by the students in how
they worked and were engaged in the lesson. Improvements that can be made next time is to put the
originals lesson instructions on a sheet of paper instead of outlining them at the beginning of the lesson,
this gives the students some to refer back to instead of continuously asking a lot of questions. I feel that I
reached the lesson outcomes well and the lesson reflected the learning in the Australian curriculum well.
Examples of the straw tower reflections: