Lesson+Plans


 * ** Timetable: ** 1 hour lessons**,** 3 Days a Week, for 10 weeks **Class:** Year 6

**Student Objectives/ Outcomes** Work collaboratively in a small group to: * Research a Teacher assigned Mini Beast
 * Subject: ** English, Science, ICT **Topic:** Investigating Mini Beasts ||
 * **Students’ Prior Knowledge and Experience:****(Outline what the students already know about this topic)**
 * 1) The students have been perfecting their group collaboration skills and are comfortable and productive whilst working in a co-operative learning environment.
 * 2) Students are capable with text structure and previous to year six have focussed on linguistic and non-linguistic forms of text.
 * 3) Students are aware of the difference between Fiction and Non-fiction text structures and have limited experience comparing and analysing the two.
 * 4) Interactive Whiteboard have been present in all classrooms in their previous years, and as such the students are confident and proficient users of these types of technology.
 * 5) Students have recently been given iPads and have been working to build their skills with these tablets.
 * 6) Students understand and know how to take photos looking at angles, perspective and lighting. ||
 * **Learning Purposes:****(Outline the specific learning outcomes to be achieved. Outcomes should be concise, observable and attainable)**
 * Critically analyse the literature in order to discern research information

Creating and designing a lesson for their fellow students utilising various technologies

Focus will be on the Productive modes of Speaking, Writing and Creating and Receptive Modes of Listening, Reading and Viewing.

**Targeted Content, Standards and Benchmarks** **ENGLISH** **Language** __Expressing and developing ideas__ Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas (ACELA1522) Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases(ACELA1523) Identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts (ACELA1524)

**Literature** __Creating literature__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways (ACELT1618) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice (ACELT1800) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__Literature and context__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts(ACELT1613)

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Literacy** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__Interacting with others__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (ACELY1709) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions such as voice volume, tone, pitch and pace, according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience(ACELY1816) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis (ACELY1710) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Select, navigate and readtexts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings (ACELY1712) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts(ACELY1713) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__Creating texts__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to createtexts(ACELY1717)

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**SCIENCE** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Science Understanding** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__Biological sciences__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">The growth and survival of living things are affected by the physical conditions of their environment(ACSSU094) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Science as a Human Endeavour <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__Nature and development of science__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Important contributions to the advancement of science have been made by people from a range of cultures (ACSHE099) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__Use and influence of science__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Scientific knowledge is used to inform personal and community decisions (ACSHE220) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__Communicating__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Communicate ideas, explanations and processes in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts(ACSIS110) || Students will prepare and email an Educreation presentation to ensure understanding before preparing the class presentations on Minibeasts.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Student Evaluation: (Explain how student learning will be monitored)**Throughout the various lessons roving conference will be conducted to both observe and question students both individually and within their groups to establish an understanding of how students are processing the information they have learned. Roving will also ensure that students stay on task and are not disrupting others.

Photographs will be taken throughout the course of the term and added to a student portfolio along with matching details of content descriptors and proficiency strands from the Australian Curriculum.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Final student presentations will be marked with the use of an observation checklist and anecdotal notes. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Peer reviews and self-evaluation will also be completed. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Pencils and draft paper. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Other Resources** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">A good website to use in week one for the introduction to Mini Beasts or as a revision type lesson in one of the following weeks. Students are introduced to a Webquests on Minibeasts which requires them to aquire knowledge. The students will complete the Webquests in a team environment, however working individually on one task. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">@http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2003/12/04/2045274.htm <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Split the class into their already sorted working groups. Using two of the McMillan Minibeasts books read the books. Take the complexity out of writing complex sentences. Students Think, Pair, Share to practice taking two ideas and putting them together to make a complex sentence. Create a list of subordinating conjunctions to help each individual make better sentences.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Preparation and Resources: (Detail what resources will be used and what other preparation of the learning environment will be required)**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Electronic whiteboard for viewing and interacting with the website activities.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Classroom desks will be moved into groups of four. All groups will have decent visibility of the Electronic Whiteboard.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Individual iPad’s
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Mini Beasts resource books “Mighty Minibeasts” – Brendan and Debbie Gallagher, MacMillan Young Library, MacMillan Education Australia.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Digital Camera
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Wireless Internet Connection
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Guest speakers
 * mentors
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">parents
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">community members ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">These lessons will roll into one another and time frames spent on each individual lesson will vary depending on the progress of the students. ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Learning Experiences:****WEEK 1** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__3 x 1 Hour Lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Introduction to the class “What is a Minibeast”.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**WEEK 2** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__3 x 1 Hour Lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Prompt a discussion about writing by providing the following quotation: "You've got to know when to turn around." Then, use their written answer to identify sentence fragments or places where they can't identify their point. They study their own writing to discuss the importance of revising. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Students are introduced to a Webquests on Minibeasts which requires them to aquire knowledge. The students will complete the Webquests in a team environment, however working individually on one task. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Students will work through Bug Catcher. Completing the Minibeast information Sheet.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**WEEK 3** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__3 x 1 Hour Lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Expand short, non-descript sentences by adding descriptive words and phrases. In this Minibeast lesson, sentence length and rhythmic language are identified and discussed. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Using their iPads the students research Minibeasts by finding articles. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Images and facts based on Western Australian Minibeasts; <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">@http://www.spinelesswonders.com.au/index.html <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">A website all about Australian Beetles; <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">@http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2003/12/04/2045274.htm <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Pictures and Videos on the National Geographic website for kids; <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">@http://kids.nationalgeographic.com.au/kids/photos/bugs/ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">National Geographic Website – images and videos. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">@http://animals.nationalgeographic.com.au/animals/bugs/ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">They learn how to summarize by identifying main ideas and supporting details. Students cross out unimportant information as they read through a text. Is it a random detail? Cross it out! They then design an A3 poster using a Poster App to hang in the classroom, placing the main idea in the center and drawing key details around it. Students will spend one lesson taking photos of Minibeasts, exploring within the classroom and school ground parameters. Students can use the photos in their poster design, or by sourcing images off of the web. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Work on task 1 of Webquest. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">@http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/minibeasts

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**WEEK 4** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__3 x 1 Hour Lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">After a demonstration by the teacher of how to combine sentences, groups read a poems loaded with short, choppy sentences and work together to combine sentences resulting in a creative short story <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">narrative. They record their version on a transparency and share it with the class.
 * Great Insect Art for Children:** **//Song of the Water Boatman//** **by Joyce Sidman**



//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This book is full of poems, this time focusing on aquatic animals. But this book is ultimately my favorite children’s book because it is full of complex and expertly executed woodcut prints as illustrations. Song of the Water Boatman won a Caldecott Medal for its illustrations, securing its place in history as one of the most spectacularly illustrated books ever! The poems teach kids about life in ponds and feature a lot of information about aquatic insects. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Using the interactive whiteboard, Students study the rules of conjunctions, clauses, and complex sentences. After they have worked on the exercises, a board game reinforces their knowledge in a fun and innovative way. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">@http://splash.abc.net.au/media/-/m/31419/finish-the-story-car-crash?source=upper-primary-english

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**WEEK 5** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__3 x 1 Hour Lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">With regards to various forms of narrative writing students will get a brief introduction to the various types of beginnings they could use, and why they is so important to the story. They must choose wisely. Then, students analyze six sentences,selecting which type of beginning they represent. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Following on, students will create and complete five practice sentences to begin their narrative. This will provide them with a platform from which they will be jumping into their own narrative writing! Explore expository writing and using precise language in this descriptive paragraph writing lesson.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__3 x 1 Hour Lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Introduce to the students about their presentation from the Webquests. In their groups the students will learn about ‘Educreations’ and how to make a video. They will practice making a short video and email it to the teacher for checking. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">@http://www.educreations.com/
 * WEEK 6**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**WEEK 7** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__3 x 1 Hour Lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Learners brainstorm prior knowledge. They will describe to their peers in their groups what they have learnt on one particular Minibeast. Afterward, they craft a story on a Minibeast using this information and putting it into an ‘Educreations’ Presentation to present to their peers. They will use the provided rubric to evaluate their writing. The rubric will include sentence structure, creativity etc. Students are to take notes and pay attention to their peer’s presentation for testing at the end of term.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**WEEK 8** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__3 x 1 Hour Lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Students work together to prepare and finish off their presentations for presenting in WEEK 9.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**WEEK 9** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__3 x 1 Hour Lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Students present their ‘Educreations’ Presentations to the class.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**WEEK 10** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">__3 x 1 Hour Lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">Students choose the best 3 minibeast posters and write a short narratives for each of them to present at the school assembly about what they have learnt and how they did their presentations. . <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">@http://www.educreations.com/ ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">**Lesson Evaluation** ** (Reflect on the success of the lesson) **


 * 1) <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">By observing if the students were engaged in their work and enjoying themselves I will be able to gain perspective on how they felt about the lesson.
 * 2) By assessing the students throughout the lesson I will be able to gauge how well they have met the outcomes intended at the beginning of the lesson. ||