LESSON SEQUENCE: Coastal Management

Lesson Content / Indicators of Learning

(What is Taught):
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addressed in each section. Link to your
Indicators of Learning.

Timing
(mins)
68

Teaching Strategies / Learning Experiences:

(How it is taught)
Write detailed steps showing what the teacher (T) will do and
what students (Ss) will do.

Resources and Organisation:

T greets S and introduces self

T outlines rules and expectations to the class.

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Geography for global citizens

INTRODUCTION

Introduction of lesson and class

room expectations:
- Rules: No one speaks while I
am speaking, To answer a
question we raise our hands,
No mobile phones in site, Show
respect to one another.
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Marking
the
Roll
and
checking homework.
Going through homework

Introduction to the lesson

- Last week we looked at coastal
management strategies, can

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minutes

10 min

T introduces the lesson and prompts S to recall previous

lessons about coastal management strategies.

anyone tell me some examples

of hard management strategies/
soft management strategies.
DEVELOPMENT
Going over page 1 of the worksheet
Recalling the worksheet from last lesson
and answering and queries regarding it.

Video
about
Queenslands
beach
Nourishment scheme.
Students are given time to answer the
questions of page 2 of the worksheet.

Role play activity

The role-play activity used as a way to
introduce coastal management as a
complex issue. The role-play enforces the
ideas about different views pertaining to
management
of Australias coastline
including
environmentalist,
residents,
tourists and local council.

7 Volunteers are assigned roles and

given 5 minutes to familiarize
themselves with their lines.

5
minutes

T asks S for their answers regarding the coastal management

strategies used in Queensland.

10
minutes
T allows S time to watch the short clip. T prompts S to take
notes on their worksheet
T uses this time to walk around and correct any behavioral
issues as well as hand out activity sheet.

will

walk

around

and

ensure

are

on

task.

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minutes

Geography for Australian Citizens

Textbook

The volunteers are asked to write

down their beliefs onto a piece of
paper to turn to during the debate.
The remainder of the class will read
164

165
and complete
questions 8 9 on page 168.
Once together the discussion will
start, the topic will be written on the
board and each member of the role
play will say their part.
At the end the entire class will vote
on the issue and then a
discussion/reflection will follow.
The role play is used to break up
the lesson and to get students
thinking about differing perspectives
of Coastal management.

News article exercises

Students are given worksheet with two news
articles with differing views on coastal
management.

20 mins

T hands out the news articles and gets S to alternate reading 1

line from it.
Teacher gives explicit instruction that S are to complete work in
their books.

CLOSURE
T will discussion questions with the class.
Worksheet Correction
Teacher will start to go through the answers
for news article 1.

10
minutes

Homework
The completion of news article 2