Name: ____________________________

A Learning Experience Planner

Learning Area: HaSS Topic Focus: The Journeys of the Explorers

Year level: 4/5

1. The learning focus of the Learning Experience

What is the Learning Intention?
 To be able to research Dirk Hartog, Captain James Cook and the First Fleet’s journey to Australia
What is the Success Criteria?
 Write down information that has been researched
 Drawn the world map and outlined in black marker
What Learning Power Habits are used?
 Persisting
 Striving for accuracy
2. Description of the learning experience

Teacher Activity Learner Activity Learner organisation & Time

resources
Introducing the experience (engagement). GROUPS poster (see 5-10
Students are to sit with their assigned groups appendices) min
I will be introducing the
assignment to the students and Students are to discuss with the class what it
what is to be completed for this means to work effectively as a group
lesson

I will also discuss and demonstrate

expectations of working in groups
and how to achieve success as a
group.

Developing the experience. 30

I will call for one group to bring Students are to use the smartboard to trace Brown cardboard (A2 or mins
their large cardboard to trace the the world map onto their brown cardboard larger)
world map from the smartboard with pencil, once the pencil is outlined, they Pencils
can proceed to outline the map in Permanent marker
I will ask each of the students permanent marker
throughout the lesson about
anything that they are unsure of, While waiting to draw the world map,
what they are currently doing as a students are to start researching their
group, and what they plan to explorer based on these inquiry questions:
include in their maps  When did your explorer
depart?
 Why did they leave for
Australia?
 What challenges did they
face on their journey?
 Did they stop somewhere
else along the way? Why?
 When did they arrive at
Australia?
 What did they do when they

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Closing the experience. 5-10

I will ask the students what is
something interesting about their
explorer
Students will share what they learned during min
the class
Students will also share what they plan to do
next in their assignments

3. Links with Australian Curriculum

 The journey(s) of AT LEAST ONE world navigator, explorer or trader up to the late eighteenth
century, including their contacts with other societies and any impacts (ACHASSK084)
 Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their
experiences following arrival (ACHASSK085)
 Reasons (economic, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after
1800 (ACHASSK106)
 The reasons people migrated to Australia and the experiences and contributions of a particular
migrant group within a colony (ACHASSK109)

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 Name: ____________________________

A Learning Experience Planner

Learning Area: HaSS Topic Focus: The Journeys of the Explorers

Year level: 4/5

4. The learning focus of the Learning Experience

What is the Learning Intention?
 To be able to provide constructive feedback
What is the Success Criteria?

What Learning Power Habits are used?

 Persisting
 Striving for accuracy
5. Description of the learning experience

Teacher Activity Learner Activity Learner organisation & Time

resources
Introducing the experience (engagement). 5-10
Students will discuss with each other what Access to computer min
I will show the students this video: they understand about giving constructive Smartboard
 https://www.youtube.com feedback YouTube
/watch?v=hqh1MRWZjms
I will then discuss with the Students will also receive their role cards and Role cards (see
students what their understanding discuss the expectations of their roles to appendices)
of constructive feedback is ensure they understand their role in their
group task
I will hand out role cards for the
students, each student must take
the responsibility of their role for
this lesson

Developing the experience. 30

Students are to walk around and view each Explorer maps mins
I will explain to the students that other’s maps. Students will then leave Paper to write feedback
they will be walking around in a constructive feedback for each other Pencils
“Gallery Walk”
Students are to include: Whiteboard
I will write on the board an  Something that they liked about the Whiteboard markers
example template on what kind of map
feedback to write to their peers.  Something that can be included
This will also include sentence
starters to assist in their Students are also to reflect on the
constructive feedback techniques used during the maps. Students
are to also to reflect on their own maps and
evaluate what they can include on their own.
Closing the experience. 5-10
Students will evaluate and reflect what has Pencils min
I will ask the students where they been completed on their maps, and what Pens

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are at with their maps, and what they can do next. Exit Cards
they can do next
Students will fill out their Exit cards before
I will ask students to fill out an the end of the lesson
“Exit card” (see appendices) about
what the learning intention was,
what they achieved and what
could be done differently for next
time

6. Links with Australian Curriculum

 The journey(s) of AT LEAST ONE world navigator, explorer or trader up to the late eighteenth
century, including their contacts with other societies and any impacts (ACHASSK084)
 Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their
experiences following arrival (ACHASSK085)
 Reasons (economic, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after
1800 (ACHASSK106)
 The reasons people migrated to Australia and the experiences and contributions of a particular
migrant group within a colony (ACHASSK109)

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 Name: ____________________________

A Learning Experience Planner

Learning Area: HaSS Topic Focus: The Journeys of the Explorers

Year level: 4/5

7. The learning focus of the Learning Experience

What is the Learning Intention?
 To be able to reflect on our own assignment
What is the Success Criteria?

What Learning Power Habits are used?
 Persisting
 Striving for accuracy
8. Description of the learning experience

Teacher Activity Learner Activity Learner organisation & Time

resources
Introducing the experience (engagement). 20 min
Students will have the time to finish the last Explorer maps
I will allocate time for the class to details of their maps Coloured pencils
complete their Explorer maps Coloured markers
Paper
For this part of the task, students
will rotate their role cards Role cards

Developing the experience. 30

Students are to complete their Explorer Explorer maps mins
I will explain that students are to maps, finish any last details. Coloured pencils
reflect on their own maps and Coloured markers
teamwork throughout the unit. I Students will also complete their own Paper
reminded them about “Austin’s success criteria sheets and constructively
Butterfly” review on their own work and teamwork
throughout the unit

Students are also to rehearse for their

presentations, they may write a script to
help them for their presentation.

Closing the experience. 5-10

Students are to present their Explorer maps min
to the class, they will be discussing what
they learned throughout the unit.

The class will then provide verbal feedback

and comment what they liked about the
map, something that could be improved on,
and something interesting they learned

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9. Links with Australian Curriculum

 The journey(s) of AT LEAST ONE world navigator, explorer or trader up to the late eighteenth
century, including their contacts with other societies and any impacts (ACHASSK084)
 Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their
experiences following arrival (ACHASSK085)
 Reasons (economic, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies in Australia after
1800 (ACHASSK106)
 The reasons people migrated to Australia and the experiences and contributions of a particular
migrant group within a colony (ACHASSK109)

Appendices:

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What was the learning intention?
To research about Dirk Hartog.

What was the success criteria?

Map drawn and answer three questions.

What could be done differently for next time?

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