Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION

Year Level: year 8 Time: 50 mins Date: 31/05/2017 Students Prior Knowledge:

Learning Area: HASS: Geography

Students have experience in reading and using
the types of maps used in this lesson
Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum sequence

The geographical processes that produce landforms,
including a case study of one type of landform, such as
mountains, volcanoes, riverine or coastal landforms
(ACHGK050)
The spiritual, cultural and aesthetic value of landscapes and
landforms for people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples (ACHGK049)
Students are familiar with the research skills,
processes and expectations of this class
Students are familiar with the use of ICT tools
such as Weebly, Padlet, Coggle, Answer
Garden, Slidely, Kahoot.
Students are familiar with the use of Google
Applications such as Earth, Maps, and Images.

**This is the second lesson in a sequence of four

lessons focused on geographical inquiry.

General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative thinking behaviour Social understanding
competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australias engagement with Asia Sustainability
histories and cultures
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)
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:

Demonstrate the ability to develop and interpret geographical questions in a geographical inquiry research
task
Demonstrate that they can use criteria such as accuracy, reliability, currency and usefulness to select
information relevant to their inquiry
Show they can read and interpret data and features of Ariel maps including satellite with Google Maps and
Google Earth in the inquiry

Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational risk:

Teacher has prepared a Weebly website (with all the pages)
for the students to access.
Write Weebly URL up on the board so the class can access
it:
Weebly: http://analarahass.weebly.com
Teacher has set up all the links for the students to follow as
ICT tools are introduced to the class.
Students are given the opportunity to work together,
which promotes their peer learning and mentoring.
The ICT tools chosen and demonstrated allow success
for students with beginning or advanced content
comprehension.

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:
Monitoring
Observations
ICT tools presentation and demonstrations
General ICT tools capabilities
Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:
1) How did the students find the ICT tools? Were they boring? Did they get distracted easily?
2) How did the students perform in pairs? Should I as a teacher have dictated the order in which the students will sit
in?
3) Was their enough information provided to the students? Were question asked about further information?
4) Did the students fin the overall content interesting?
5) Were the students engaged? Did all students feel comfortable? Did all students contribute to class discussions and

group work?
6) Was the lesson easy to follow?
[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:

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

Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Students ICT Devices
Students will be invited into class with their ICT devices and asked to sit in
2 mins (laptops)
their pairs. Students will be instructed to open up Padlet and the Weebly
website on Investigation day 2.
Weebly:
http://analarahass.weebly.
Plan for today's investigation com
1. Padlet
2. Free to use images Padlet Brainstorm:
3. Researching images to use for poster and answer focus questions https://padlet.com/laraelle
4. Mapping n91/Yr8Brainstormlesson
2
Reaching maps to use on poster which answer focus questions.
Padlet:
1. Padlet https://padlet.com/laraelle
n91/year8GeographyTerm
Padlet will be used as an interactive brainstorming tool, where 2
5 mins students are to individually and in pairs contribute.
- They will be asked to post some of the things they learnt in the
previous lesson.

Lesson Steps
Google Advanced image
Teacher Input search
2 mins The teacher will introduce the focus questions for the day and write them
on the board for students to refer to:
1) How big is it? Why is it this size?
2) Why is it like this? Is it like this because of something else at that
location?
3) Is it changing? Is so, why is it changing and what will it look like in the
future?
5 mins

2. Free to use images

Students will be asked to explore the tools of creative commons and free Slidely:
to use images sourced from Google images. http://slide.ly/?
-The teacher will demonstrate this on the projector utm_content=header_log
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15 mins 3. Research Activity
Students will be given some time to a follow along and explore Creative
Commons and Free to use Images themselves for the Geographical
Landform they have chosen.

5 mins 4. Teacher Input

Teacher will draw the attention to the front of the class where a
demonstration on how students can add maps and other features onto the
digital posters.
- This should remind students of the mapping skills they have learnt in the
previous lesson.
- This will assist students in answering the lessons focus questions.
Google Document:
https://docs.google.com/
5. Research activity document/u/0/
15 mins Students will use their research and mapping skills to research the lessons
geographical focus question related to their landform.

Teachers will walk around the classroom monitoring students during both
research tasks.

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

5 mins
6. Reflections
Students are to individually reflect on the lesson/ day 2 of the investigation.
Digital Poster:
They will use Google Docs on the Weebly website they created last lesson https://piktocchart.com
to record their reflection.

This document is to be shared with the teacher using the teachers email
address provided on the Investigation Weebly Website.

They will be instructed:

1) Each reflection is to be dated and must answer the reflection questions
listed:
Reflection Questions:
What do you think you did well today?;
What didnt work?;
What is something interesting I learnt today?;
What is something I want to find out more about?

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

Students must ensure their answers to the focus questions are completed
for todays investigation and theyre poster has the relevant information on
it.

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

judged?)

Reflection Questions on Google Docs.

Observation and monitoring during research tasks.
Padlet brainstorm.
Coggle mindmap which can be accessed from their padlet group page.