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TERM/WEEKS: 2 YEAR LEVEL: 8 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Earth and Environmental

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
thinking Competence Understanding
Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

Notes about device access in the classroom: Laptop, computers, iPads and/or iPods

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WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and other
LESSON
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Kahoot quiz to assess

The different 1. Research and the 9 1. Formative Introduction: student’s prior knowledge.

Wk 3 types of common landscapes (for assessment at Teacher to welcome class and introduce students to the http://www.kahoot.it
landscapes in example, coastal, mountain the beginning lesson by questioning them on how many landscapes they
Australia and and desert). of the lesson can think of. YouTube video on planet
Lesson 1 their distinctive using Kahoot  Teacher tells students to watch ‘BBC Planet Earth – Trailer’ earth including shots of
landform 2. Describe examples of to check to engage students. Afterwards points out any landscapes landscapes.
features (e.g. landscapes from around understanding https://www.youtube.com/w
yet to be identified.
coastal, riverine, the world. of common atch?v=UVfrjoc5tKI
arid, mountain, landscapes.
karst) 3. Record a rap song using Body: Britannica School for
(ACHGK048) GarageBand incorporating 2. Rubric for  Teacher directs students to Britannica School and instructs researching different
the 9 different landscapes. the rap as a them to research the 9 common landscapes and to record landscapes.
summative https://school.eb.com.au/lev
an example for each.
assessment. els/middle
Key points to  Teacher introduces students to rap activity by providing
be covered are examples they have prepared. GarageBand for creating rap
the 9  Teacher groups students into pairs with their neighbour. songs.
landscapes  On completion, student pairs to play their rap to the class. https://www.apple.com/au/
and a short mac/garageband/ \
description of
each. Conclusion Rap examples.
 Teacher takes time to ask students whether they enjoyed https://www.youtube.com/w
their time using GarageBand to create the raps. atch?v=ucZ36Guj0mM
 Teacher instructs students to send a recording of their rap https://www.youtube.com/w
to the teacher and provide proof prior to leaving class. atch?v=tvLTMRmoc1s
 Teacher has a discussion with students on what landscapes
they’d most like to visit.

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 The different 1. Identify the landscapes 1. Rubric for Introduction: Lesson objectives.
types of iconic to Australia (For the Padlet  Teacher assigns groups using numbered heads. http://www.powtoon.com
landscapes in example coastal, plains, board as a  Teacher provides lesson objectives through Powtoons.
Wk 3 Australia and plateaus, desert). summative  Teacher starts lesson by instructing students to list iconic PrimaryPad used for group
their distinctive assessment. Australian landscapes in their PrimaryPad group document. note-taking of iconic
landform 2. Describe examples for Key points Australian landscapes.
Teacher then instructs students discuss answers with their
Lesson 2 features (e.g. iconic Australian landscapes include https://primarypad.com/
(For example Nullarbor explaining and group. Teacher questions groups and writes list on board.
coastal, riverine,
arid, mountain, Plain or the Southern WA recognising
karst) coastline). what makes Body: Padlet to be used for
(ACHGK048) Australian  Teacher educates students on what makes a landscape mindmapping what makes
3. Create a board using Landscapes Australian landscapes iconic.
iconic.
Padlet discussing what iconic. https://padlet.com/courtney
makes particular Australian  Teacher explains the Padlet task and instructs students to
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landscapes iconic. use Padlet and brainstorm what makes particular Australian
landscapes iconic.
 Teacher roams classroom and assists students, providing
them with any key points they may have missed.
 Students will send the teacher their mindmap once the
activity is completed.
QR Code maker for random
Conclusion allocation
 Teacher has a discussion with the class, posing questions of landscapes
such as ‘what is Australia’s most iconic landscape?’ and https://www.qr-
codegenerator.com/
‘what landscape do we utilise most in Australia?’
 For homework the teacher provides one QR code for each QR Code reader.
landscape and tells students to randomly scan one as they https://itunes.apple.com/au/
depart. The QR code will take students to a webpage app/qr-reader-
describing a landscape. Students are instructed to write a foriphone/id368494609?m
paragraph on one example of an Australian landscape.

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 The different 1. Describe the common
types of landforms within the major
landscapes in landscapes (for example
Australia and rivers, beaches, sand
their distinctive dunes, forests and
Wk 3 landform grasslands).
features (e.g.
coastal, riverine, 2. Identify and locate
Lesson 3
arid, mountain, common Australian
karst) landforms.
(ACHGK048)
3. Explain why Australian
landforms are attractive to
tourists.
4. Create a tourism poster
advertising a particular
Australian landform using
Canva.
1. Rubric for Introduction:
the Canva  Teacher directs students to show her/him their homework
poster as at the beginning of the lesson.
summative  Teacher starts lesson by doing a 3-2-1 with students.
assessment.
Key points
Students are to write down 3 landforms, 2 examples for
each and 1 question they have.
include
graphics,
attractiveness Body: Tourism Australia YouTube
and grammar.  Teacher plays video ‘Tourism Australia Dundee Super Bowl video featuring Australian
Ad 2018’ and tells students to take note of landforms landforms.
2. Summative https://www.youtube.com/w
featured.
assessment at atch?v=NNJKWVmK-GM
the end of the  Teacher picks students to come to the front and stick a
class in the landform image on an Australian map where they believe it Large map of Australia with
form of a is located. printed A5 images of
Socrative quiz  Students are to perform a think-pair-share on what makes landforms and adhesive.
on Australian Australian landscapes attractive to tourists.
landforms.
 Teacher allows students to choose a landform and with
their neighbour students are to create a tourism poster
using Canva. Students send the teacher their poster on
completion.
AnswerGarden used to
Conclusion determine which poster is
 Teacher holds a vote using AnswerGarden and students are best and why.
https://answergarden.ch/
to answer with their favourite and why.
 Teacher has students complete a Socrative quiz on Socrative quiz on Australian
Australian landforms. landforms.
https://www.socrative.com/
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