Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 2/3 Time: 10:40 -12:20 Students’ Prior Knowledge:
Date: 19th June - Students have had lots of lessons
on how to create a project on
Learning Area: Humanities and Social google slides as well as how to
Sciences research information about a
landmark.
Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum
Geography -
The location of Australian states,
territories, capital cities and major
regional centres of Western Australia and
the location and identifying attributes of
Australia's major natural features (e.g.
rivers, deserts, rainforests, the Great
Dividing Range, the Great Barrier Reef)
(ACHASSK066).

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

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative behaviour Social understanding
thinking competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Asia and Australia’s engagement Sustainability

Islander histories and cultures with Asia
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:

• Write a title page on google slides with the name of their landmark and their
name.
• Research the description of their landmark and write notes about it on a
brainstorm sheet.

Teacher’s Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational

- Print research worksheet (brainstorm
sheet)
- Have 10 iPads ready.
- Have chrome books ready (GREEN)
risk:
- Students are paired into 2 and 3
pairs so that the year 2’s can
have help with researching their
chosen landmark.

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

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Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:

Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:

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

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 LESSON DELIVERY (attach worksheets, examples, marking key, etc, as
relevant)
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the
On the Mat segment where they
will be introduced.
- Ask students to find a pair that is not in
their year (year 2/3 pair) that they can work
well with.
- Ask them to be honest.
- Tell the students that they are going to be
logging on in a moment, once they log on they
need to go onto google classroom à Classwork
àAustralian Landmark Project
- Ask half of the pairs to silent read and half
stay on mat.
- If they are confident in logging in let them
go log in.
- Model how to log in to the other students.
- once most people have finished logging on in
the first group, get the silent readers to
log on.
- Once everyone has finished logging on and
have their landmark project up, they will sit
back on the mat.

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure,

strategies & Key Questions):
Back on mat:
- Explain that the pair they are in; is the
pair they will be working with for the
project.
o Same landmark.
o Help each other with research.
o Do their own slides.
- Tell them that they are going to do a lucky
dip to pick the landmark on as I want
everyone to have a different landmark.
- Show them the title page they need to
complete, once they have picked a landmark.
- Explain that you are going to ask one student
from each pair to come and lucky dip a
landmark, after they have their landmark they
can go and complete their title slide.
- Get one student from each pair to come up and
pick a landmark from the lucky dip bowl.
- Let students go complete their title slides.
Desk:

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 - Give them 5-10 minutes to complete their
title slides.
- Ask students to PUT THEIR CHROME BOOKS AWAY
once they have completed their title page and
sit back on the mat.

Back on the mat:

- Ask:
o “What is the next slide you need to
work on?”
o “What do we need to do first, before we
write the slide?” à research.
o “Who remembers what sort of things to
research for a description?”
à Words/group of words that
describe what it is.
à Useful facts that help to
describe it.
- “What do we type into google to find this
information?”
- Remind them how to research properly and
model it on an iPad.
- Ask for one student from a pair to come and
get a worksheet and the other to get an iPad.

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with

students)

- Ask students to sit on the mat.

- Tell them that they will be writing the
description slide in the next lesson – show
the description slide example (one we wrote
as a class).

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the

next lesson?)

- Let students go to lunch.

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How

will these be judged?)

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