The PCSSC Learning Cycle Lesson Planning Document

Identify the relevant stages of the PCSSC Learning Cycle for this session and document
what will be occurring throughout these stages.
Year Level: Year 11

Subject/Unit: Personal
development/ VCAL

Date: Tuesday 2nd August

Session: 100 minutes.

Focus: Time management will be the focus of this lesson, as I am
running a series of workstations in order for the double session to run
smoothly I must stick to a timeline.
Resources: Activity sheets must be printed out prior to the
class.
Learning Intention
To actively participate in a series of teambuilding and individual
exercises in order to build upon the skills and knowledge I already know
to create positive class cohesion.
Success Criteria
I will have used commendable communication and teamwork skills to
complete a series of physical ,comprehension and analysis tasks.
Prepare
Introduce learning intentions.
5 minutes
Talk about the unit that I will introduce to students
next week Legacy; Leave your mark and explain that
we are completing these activities to further instill a
positive group environment.
Connect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUPQfzAyVeI
2 minutes
Hook students in with this video
Show
Explain each station:
5 minutes
Lava lamp activity: Students make their own Lava
lamp and explain some of the science behind the
process.
Tshirt activity: Students identify the legacy they
want to leave; (like a yearbook quote) and write their
name, quote and possible artwork on a tshirt
Mission impossible: requiring groups to complete a
physical activity. The task requires students to figure
out the fastest way through the laser obstacle the
fastest group will receive a prize. Students must
measure each piece of string they use and document
this on sheet provided. The group with the fastest time
and shortest measurement sub total wins a prize.
The drawbridge activity: A comprehension activity
that promotes accountability, problem solving and
discussion in order to solve a conundrum .

Strengthen
15-20 minutes
each activity.

Consider
10 minutes

1)
2)
3)
4)

Lava lamp activity

T-shirt activity
Mission impossible
The drawbridge activity

Reflection questions & class discussion

What I liked most about the group was
What I liked least about the group was
The most effective things about the way the
groups worked were
The least effective things about the way the
groups worked were
The things I did that helped the
group most were
The things I did that helped the
group least were

Build Your Own Lava lamp

Molecules: All things are made of extremely small particles called
molecules. Molecules are so small that a single drop of water contains
around 10,000,000,000,000,000 molecules! Molecules have different
properties, which dictate how different types of molecules will or will not
interact with one another.
Molecular Interactions: Molecules may or may not interact with each
other. Molecules that dont interact (like oil and water) do not like to be
around each other. This is why water and oil will separate. Molecules that
do interact can do so simply by mixing or through more complex
molecular reactions.
Molecular Reactions: Sometimes when two or more molecules interact,
they form brand new molecules. In these reactions, the starting molecules
are called reactants and the new molecule(s) are called the
product(s). As more and more product forms, the reactants get used up
and begin to disappear.
In this lesson, we will test the interaction between the molecules in water,
oil, food coloring, and fizzy tablets. We will then use our new knowledge
about molecular interactions to build our very own lava lamps! As you and
your team of scientists test for interactions, use this worksheet to keep
track of your observations:

Now make your own lava lamp!

1. Fill the bottle with 200 ML water
2. Fill the bottle 250ml with vegetable oil.
3. Add about 10 drops of food coloring. Be sure to make the water
fairly dark in color.
4. Divide the Alka-Seltzer tablet into 8 pieces.
5. Drop one of the tiny pieces of Alka-Seltzer into the oil and water
mixture. Watch what happens. Once the bubbling stops, add
another chunk of Alka-Seltzer.
6. Try using a flashlight under the bottom of the bottle to simulate a
real lava lamp!
7. When you have used up all of the Alka-Seltzer and the bubbling has
completely stopped, screw on the soda bottle cap. Tip the bottle
back and forth and watch what happens.
Safety Considerations 1. Limit the amount of Alka-Seltzer added to the
lava lamps to prevent the bottle from exploding. 2. DO NOT seal the
bottles while the Alka-Seltzer reaction is in progress!
Do these molecules interact? (yes or no?) If yes, which interaction is it?
(mixing or reaction?)
water + oil

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water + food coloring

water + fizzy tablet
oil + food coloring
oil + fizzy tablet

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T-shirt Activity
Task: Before the holidays we discussed and defined legacies left by iconic
Australians. Your task is to identify what legacy you want to leave as a
member of Australian society.
Steps:
1. What career avenue might you pursue when you leave High school?
2. If you dont know yet think about the things you like? Can you turn a
passion or hobbies into a career?
3. How do you best like to learn? For example, I like to build things.
4. Find an image that embodies you as a person.
5. Now on the T-shirt provided write down:
- Your name
- The legacy you want to aspire to achieve
- Draw a picture that embodies you as a person.

Mission Impossible
Well well well you and your possie of hardcore bank robbers have broken
into the local bank, only to find a laser alarm system. Together you must
pass through the laser field without touching the laser in order to get to
the safe full of money on the other side.
Process:
- One by one students will pass through the obstacle
- One person will be timing each person and documenting their
times in the table below.
- The group must then add up everyones time.
- The group with the lowest collated time at the end of the session
will receive a prize.
NOTE: if you hit a laser you must start at the beginning AND your
time will continue to run.

Team Member

Time

Drawbridge Exercise.

As he left for a visit to his outlying districts, the jealous baron warned his
pretty wife: "Do not leave the castle while i am gone, or i will punish you
severely when i return!"
But as the hours passed, the young baroness grew lonely, and despite her
husband's warning, decided to visit her lover, who lived in the countryside
nearby.
The castle was located on an island in a wide, fast-flowing river, with a
drawbridge linking the island and the land at the narrowest point in the
river.
"Surely my husband will not return before dawn," she thought, and she
ordered her servants to lower the drawbridge and leave it down until she
returned.
After spending several hours with her lover, the baroness returned to the
drawbridge, only to find it blocked by a madman wildly waving a long,
cruel knife. "Do not attempt to cross this bridge, baroness, or i will kill
you," he raved.
Fearing for her life, the baroness returned to her lover and asked him to
help.
"Our relationship is only a romantic one," he said. "I will not help. "
The baroness then sought out a boatman on the river, explained her plight
to him, and asked him to take her across the river in his boat.
"I will do it, but only if you can pay my fee of five dollars. "
"But I have no money with me!" the baroness protested.
"That is too bad. No money, no ride," the boatman said flatly.
Her fears growing, the baroness ran crying to the home of a friend, and
after again explaining the situation, she begged for enough money to pay
the boatman his fee.
"If you had not disobeyed your husband, this would not have happened, "
the friend said. "i will give you no money. "
With dawn approaching, and her last resource exhausted, the baroness
returned to the bridge in desperation, attempted to cross to the castle,
and was slain by the madman.
Directions:
In the preceding story there are six characters.
They are (in alphabetical order):
the baron the friend
the baroness
the lover
the boatman
the madman

Using the list above, rank each character according to how responsible he
or she was for the baroness's death. Rank the characters from 1 to 6, with
I being the most responsible and 6 being the least responsible.