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TERM/WEEKS: 1/3 YEAR LEVEL: 5 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Science

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
thinking Competence Understanding
Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

Notes about device access in the classroom:

Students need a laptop, iPad or tablet.
WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Lesson 2 Living things have As a result of this lesson, students Diagnostic Introduction: - Britannica
structural will be able to: Assessment: Teacher is to revisit the main concepts of last week’s lesson, Image Quest
Week 3 features and - Discuss prior knowledge Display prior including the animals discussed and their natural adaptations and - Book Creator
adaptations that from last lesson and utilise knowledge from habitats. Teacher must make sure that each student has created a
- Britannica
help them to information to create a previous lesson. WordCloud image about an animal. A class discussion will take
survive in their Formative place about animal adaptations.
new piece of work.
environment. Assessment: Lesson:
(ACSSU043) - Understand how to use Book created by Each student is to have their own iPad or tablet. Using the Book
Book Creator application. student is relevant Creator application, students are to make a book about the animal
Collect, store and - Understand why and the correct that they researched in the last lesson using their WordCloud
present different Britannica and Britannica information is information. The book must have a balance of relevant
types of data for Image Quest must be used given. Effective use information and images to further assist the text. Students must
a specific purpose instead of Google. of technology and use Britannica and Britannica Image Quest to gain access to
using software. copyright free copyright free information and images. Book construction is up to
(ACTDIP016) sources. the students’ interpretation whether it is a story book or an
informative book.
Conclusion:
Students are invited to share their books with the class by reading
a part of it and showing the images. Books can be printed out and
displayed around the classroom.