Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

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LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 6 Time: 9:00-9:45 Date: 21/3/16

Students Prior Knowledge:

Learning Area: Science

1. Students follow instructions to pose

questions for investigation
2. Students construct tables and graphs to
organise data and identify patterns in the
data

Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum:

(ACSHE098)
General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT
competence

Critical and
creative
thinking

Ethical
behaviour

Personal and
Social
competence

Intercultural
understanding

Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
histories and cultures

Asia and Australias engagement with

Asia

Sustainability

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 ability to work effectively in groups

Demonstrate a good understanding of the ICT tool - Bubbl.us

Pose good questions

Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation:

Organise room into tables groups

Student class portable laptops (one per Group)
Projector/ smart board
White board/ white board marker
Link for news video
Task cards
Link on kidblog - bubble.us
Link on kidblog - Britannica school edition
A3 paper - 1 per group
Bomb timer -

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/bombcountdown/

Provision for students at educational risk:

Strategically choosing Groups - to reduce the
level of distraction and to assist students to stay
on task, and encourage quieter students to
become more involved.
Extension task - For Groups who finish the
activity early, they can add pictures to their
Weebly.
Inappropriate sites have been blocked to
maintain on task focus for students

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LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:
Were the lesson objectives easily met?
Were the lesson objectives suitable for the lesson?
What part of the activity did students respond well to, and not well to?
Did the students remain focused throughout the lesson?
Did the students understand the task at hand? Was there any confusion?
Did the students understand the lesson objectives?
Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:
Was the lesson engaging?
Did the lesson allow students to take control of their own learning?
Did the student remain focused throughout the lesson?
What did students struggle with?
What did students do really well?
How can the lesson be improved?
[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:

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

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Time

Motivation and Introduction:

9:00am Greet students

Good morning students, today we will be continuing our work on our
science topic, natural disasters. Today we will be preparing for our
lesson next week were we will be creating our IMovies. Using the
information we gathered from our last lesson, we are going to begin
planning our iMovies. I would like to begin our lesson today by
watching a news video to get some ideas for our own planning.

Resources/
References

Prior to watching video - Questions:

While we are watching this video i would like for you to think of the
following questions
Where is the reporter located? Are there any clues that suggest
where the reporter is?
What are they reporting?
Can you listen for when they use facts?

Smart board/ Projector - Watch news report video as class

Class discussion - review prior video questions

Video link:

https://
www.youtube.com/
watch?
v=ZcHsr2MDby8
Projector/ smart board

9:10am Lesson Steps

As a class, ask students to come up with questions and complete a
class brain storm on the white board.

Use class pop stick picker to choose students to give questions to

encourage the whole class to be focused on the topic.

Leave brainstorm on board to provide students with assistance to

White board
White board marker
Pop stick picker

get started and stay focused.

Ask students to join with their groups from the previous lesson

Ask students to choose one member of the group to be the

collector and collect 1 class laptop per group

Ask groups to select another member to collect one task card per
group.

Instruct students to get out the research they had done in their prior
lesson.

Students are to go to their kidblog site (students familiar with) and

follow the link under lesson 3 - link: bubbl.us
9:15am Read through the task card as a class, explaining the task and what
is expected and the lesson objectives.
Students to begin a brainstorm of their ideas for their iMovies on A3
paper
Group members take turns on the computer, one at a time, entering
in the brainstorm into bubbl.us
Class time bomb set at 5 minutes to indicate next group members
turn on the computer - reset for next members turn

Smart board/ Projector

Time bomb

http://www.onlinestopwatch.com/
bomb-countdown/
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Explain lesson objectives:

Demonstrate ability to work effectively in groups
Demonstrate a good understanding of the ICT tool - Bubbl.us
Pose good questions
9:20am

Instruct students to begin their planning and set the class time bomb
Walk around room, encouraging students questions and keeping groups
focused on their planning.
What jobs/ roles are each student in the group undertaking? (Camera,
reporter, victim, script writer etc.)
What natural disaster are you reporting?
Whats your news stations name?
What event are the reporting? What will they say about the event?
Where will they be reporting? Scene, location, date, time?
What facts will they give?
Who will they interview?
What was the effect of the natural disaster?
Allow for each member to have a turn (groups of no more than 4, reset
bomb timer 4 times)
Ask students to save their completed bubbl.us and post to class Kidblog
along with group member names for teacher to assess.
Extension:
Groups who finish early can add pictures to their Weebly.
Link on kid blog - britannica school edition.

9:40am

Lesson Closure:
Ask one student from each group to share with the class, what natural
disaster they are doing and what event they are reporting about.
Discuss with the class the lesson objectives, focus on students thoughts
towards bubbl.us
Demonstrate ability to work effectively in groups
Demonstrate a good understanding of the ICT tool - Bubbl.us
Pose good questions

Pop Stick Picker

Did you find bubbl.us easy to use, okay or tricky?

Did you like using bubbl.us? what did you like and did not like?
Instruct students to return to their seats as two chosen students hand our
peer review assessment sheets.
Students are to complete these peer reviews about each student within
their group, assessing their group work skills

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9:45am

Transition:

Ask the same group member who collected the laptop, turn it
off and return it.

Instruct students to fold up with A3 paper brainstorm and place

in one of the group members big trays.

Instruct students to get out their maths books ready for the next
lesson.

Assessment:
Lesson Objectives

Demonstrate ability to work effectively in groups

Demonstrate a good understanding of the ICT tool - Bubbl.us
Pose good questions
Ability to work effectively in groups will be assessed through peer
reviewed assessment completed by each student in regards to
each of their group members.
A good understanding of the ICT tool, bubbl.us, will be assessed
through the final product and the peer review which includes a self
review which will suggest which students have a good
understanding of the ICT tool and the students who struggled.
The ability to pose good questions will be developed on the A3
brain storm activity and during class brainstorming.

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