Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION

Year Level: year 8 Time: 50 mins Date: 5/06/2017 Students Prior Knowledge:

Learning Area: HASS: Geography
Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum
The geographical processes that produce landforms,
including a case study of one type of landform, such as
mountains, volcanoes, riverine or coastal landforms
(ACHGK050)
The spiritual, cultural and aesthetic value of landscapes and
landforms for people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples (ACHGK049)
Students have experience in reading and using
the types of maps used in this lesson
sequence
Students are familiar with the research skills,
processes and expectations of this class
Students are familiar with the use of ICT tools
such as Weebly, Padlet, Coggle, Answer
Garden, Slidely, Kahoot.
Students are familiar with the use of Google
Applications such as Earth, Maps, and Images.

General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative thinking behaviour Social understanding
competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australias engagement with Asia Sustainability
histories and cultures
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)
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 the ability to develop and interpret geographical questions in a geographical inquiry research
task
Demonstrate that they can use criteria such as accuracy, reliability, currency and usefulness to select
information relevant to their inquiry
Show they can read and interpret data and features of Ariel maps including satellite with Google Maps and
Google Earth in the inquiry

Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational risk:

Teacher has prepared a Weebly website (with all the pages)
for the students to access.
Write Weebly URL up on the board so the class can access
it:
Weebly: http://analarahass.weebly.com
Teacher has set up all the links for the students to follow as
Students are given the opportunity to work together,
which promotes their peer learning and mentoring.
The ICT tools chosen and demonstrated allow success
for students with beginning or advanced content
comprehension.

ICT tools are introduced to the class.

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:

Monitoring
Observations
ICT tools presentation and demonstrations
General ICT tools capabilities
Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:
1) How did the students find the ICT tools? Were they boring? Did they get distracted easily?
2) How did the students perform in pairs? Should I as a teacher have dictated the order in which the students will sit
in?
3) Was their enough information provided to the students? Were question asked about further information?
4) Did the students fin the overall content interesting?
5) Were the students engaged? Did all students feel comfortable? Did all students contribute to class discussions and

group work?
6) Was the lesson easy to follow?

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

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

Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Students ICT Devices
(laptops)
When entering the classroom students will be instructed to be seated in
pairs, and have the Weebly website open.
Weebly:
http://analarahass.weebly.co
The weebly website will have an answer garden link embedded onto it
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where students will be expected to brainstorm ideas from questions they
5 min answered in the two previous lessons. This gives time for students to
Padlet:
possibly catch up if theyre behind and will assist them in the rest of the
https://padlet.com/laraellen9
lesson.
1/year8GeographyTerm2
A short class discussion will be conducted, where each pair must give an
Answer Garden Application:
answer.
http://answergarden.ch/4854
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Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):

Students already seated in pairs.

A demonstration of how the students are going to be using Google

15 mins Cardboard to explore their landforms in a virtual reality setting. This will Google Cardboard
Google Earth

enable them to be able to deepen their understanding on the specific Google Maps
landform they may be investigating.
- The use of Google Earth and Google Maps will be incorporated in the
Google Cardboard virtual reality tool.

As the students are exploring they are given a set of focus questions that
will allow them to complete the next task.

Focus Questions:
1) It is changing? If so why is it changing and what will it look like in the
near future?
2) How is it managed?
3) What is its significance? E.g. to Indigenous Australians?

15 mins As students gather their information and explore the virtual reality, they
will be reminded of the video presentation digital tool Slidely. Slidely:
It will be instructed that the students must use Slidely to create a video http://slide.ly/?
that must then be put onto their digital poster. utm_content=header_logo
-Students will be given time to create a video from what they see in the
virtual reality tool and then time to also incorporate it into their digital
poster.

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

10 Mins Students are to individually reflect on the lesson/ day 3 of the
investigation. Google Document:
- They will use Google Docs on the Weebly website to create a https://docs.google.com/doc
document to record each reflection. ument/u/0/
They will be instructed:
1) Each reflection is to be dated and must answer the reflection
questions listed: What do you think you did well today?; what didnt
work?; What is something interesting I learnt today?; What is something I
want to find out more about?

2) This document is to shared with the teacher using the teachers email
address provided on the Investigation Weebly Website.

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

Digital Poster:
Students must ensure their answers to the focus questions are https://piktocchart.com
completed for todays investigation and theyre poster has the relevant
information on it.

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will these be

judged?)

Reflection Questions on Google Docs.