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TERM/WEEKS: T2 / W3 YEAR LEVEL: THREE LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: SCIENCE : BIOLOGY

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

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

Week 3 Living things can be 1. Recognising characterists of
grouped on a basis living things such as growing,
of observable moving, sensitivity, and
features and can be
reproduction. Identify all seven
distinguished from
non-living things. characteristics of living things.
ACSS4044 2. Research how different living
things, such as animals or
Lesson 1 plants have different
characterists of living things,
for example, running and
flying.
3. Design a Canva, detailing
some features and
characterists of ONE living
thing, and explain why have
these characteristics.
Informative Introduction
Assessment:
Will be used at the
beginning of this
lesson and topic
where the teacher will
gain and idea of the
students’ prior
knowledge, when they
ask the class during Body
the introduction  Students will be assigned into groups of three, or two depending
session some
questions.
Formative
Assessment:
The students will
design a Canva which
will be used as the
formative assessment
in this lesson.
Introduction Resource:
 Teacher will greet and introduce the class to the new topic being
taught, and an overview of biological science topic, and what will Biology Introduction
be taught in this specific lesson. YouTube Video:
https://www.youtube.com/wa
 “So, can anyone in this class, tell me what biology mean?” The tch?v=p51FiPO2_kQ
teacher will ask this question to prompt prior knowledge from the
students. After a short discussion with the class, the teacher will
show to the class a YouTube video, discussing living things.
Body Resource:
on class size, and asked to research the seven characteristics of
Britannica School Primary
living things, creating a mind map using poppet lite application. Link:
 This will be completed using the classroom iPads, and the https://school-eb-com-
information source Britannica School. Students are encouraged to au.ipacez.nd.edu.au/levels/p
research different living things and identify the variety rimary/article/biology/439845
characteristics of different species for their next activity.
Apple iPad Applications:
 Students will now use their research and built on prior knowledge
to design a Canva, on a living organism, and information on 2-3 of Poplet
its characteristics.
Conclusion: Canva
 Teacher will announce there is 10 minutes left of class time and
Conclusion Resources:
students will be encouraged to finalise their work on their Canva
Design about their living organism. Teacher will review the lesson, Google Suite
and students will upload their Canva to Google Suite.