Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 5/6 Time: 55 mins Date: Students Prior Knowledge: The natural resources provided by the environment, and different views on how they could be used sustainably (ACHGK024) Collect and record relevant geographical data and information, for example, by observing by interviewing, conducting surveys, measuring, or from sources such as maps, photographs, satellite images, the media and the internet (ACHGS020) Daily and seasonal changes in our environment, including the weather, affect everyday life (ACSSU004) The structure of a multiple choice questionnaire.

Learning Area: science and geography. Strand/topic from the Australian Curriculum: Science- Earth and space sciences: Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earths surface. (ACSSU096). Geography- geographical knowledge and understanding: Impact of bushfires of floods on environments and communities, and how people can respond. (ACHGK030).

General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson) Critical and Literacy Numeracy ICT creative thinking competence X X Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)

Ethical behaviour

Personal and Social competence

Intercultural understanding

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

Sustainability

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 an understanding of the key components/concerns of a natural disaster through the production of a quiz. Demonstrate an understanding of the disastrous effects of a natural disaster through creating a short awareness commercial. Provision for students at educational risk:

Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation: A short multiple choice questionnaire on the knowledge focused on in the previous natural disaster lesson. A quiz created on proprofs quiz creator. A short commercial created on photo story.

Students are given the choice of how to present the information in both the quiz and the commercial. Students will give their quiz to another student with an equal ability level. Teacher will have personalised instructions prepared for students that may need them.

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement :

Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:

[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:

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

Time 0mins Motivation and Introduction: 1. The lesson should commence with a quick multiple choice quiz that covers all the common information students covered in the previous lesson on natural disasters. 2. Inform students that for this lesson they are going to continue working towards their final project. And that today they are going to create a commercial and a quiz on natural disasters. Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions): 3. Inform students that they are going to be creating a ten question quiz on one of the natural disasters they researched in the previous lesson. The questions should cover the main issues and components of the natural disaster. 4. The teacher should then allow the students to view a quiz the teacher had made previously on the proprofs quiz maker website using the smart board. 5. After the teacher has drawn attention to certain elements of the quiz such as the ability to attach pictures and Youtube videos to the quiz they should then demonstrate how the students can make their own. 6. The teacher than turns their attention to the short commercial. Students are informed that the commercial is to be on the same natural disaster they selected for the quiz. 7. The students are to use the application known as photostory. The teacher will allow the students to view an awareness commercial the teacher had created on photostory previously as a demonstration of what the students could do. 8. The teacher than goes through all the elements of the application such as how to add photos and text, and how to add effects to their commercial. 9. The students are informed that the commercial should clearly outline the environmental and disastrous effects of the natural disasters. 10. The students are reminded that they already have the information they need to complete these tasks, and this is the research they did in the previous lesson that they turned into a mind map. 11. Students are then instructed to complete the activities on their computer. The activities should be summarised on the board to serve as a reminder. 12. Once the students have completed the first task- creating the quizResources/References Smart board/ interactive whiteboard. Review quiz.

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http://www.proprofs.com/quizschool/ Pre-prepared quiz.

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www.photostory.com Pre-prepared Photostory/commercial.

Computers.

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they are to do another students quiz which can be accessed on the site. The quiz that the students do should be one thats from a student of the same academic ability. Lesson Closure. 13. Once the students have completed the second task- short commercial- they are to post the commercial onto their KidsBlog and view another students commercial. Transition: 14. Students return to their seats and get their books out to prepare for the next scheduled lesson. Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will these be judged?) Students will be assessed using the following checklist: The student demonstrated an understanding of the key components/concerns of a natural disaster through the production of a quiz on proprofs. (Objective 1). Students demonstrated an understanding of the disastrous effects of a natural disaster through creating a short awareness commercial on photostory. (Objective 2).

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KidsBlog.

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