Week Lesso

ONE

Focus
Introductio
n to topic

Learning Experiences
Introduce new unit to students
Explain that the unit requires group work with the assessment
piece at the end being a TV advertisement to show the school
asking them to donate to help eradicate poverty
Look broadly at the topic of food and create a class bubbl.us
about food
Begin creating a word wall with students, displaying the key
words and definitions
Create a virtual word wall on Prezi for students

ICT to assist
learning
Bubbl.us
Grumbly Tummies
Blog
Prezi

Complete the Hunger Tree activity

Break students into groups and pass out tree templates
- Ways in which hunger affects both individuals and society,
write them on the tree trunk
- Discuss the possible causes of hunger and write them on
the leaves of the tree
- Put on group blog
Reflect on activity through verbal discussion

Group
creation

Introduce class blog to students

Discuss term fundraiser
Create assignment groups by pulling a Group number from a hat
Get group members to sit together and create a Google Docs
Group contract
Once completed, students complete a strengths and weaknesses
table for each member
Create a voki based on strengths and weaknesses
Introduce group blogs to students
Allow rest of lesson for students to explore and personalise their

Google Docs
Voki
Group Blog

TWO

Poverty

blog page
Upload Google Docs and Vokis to group blog
In their assessment groups students create a collage of what
they think poverty is
Get students to think about what images are seen on TV
to portray poverty
Post final collage to group blog

Microsoft Word
Google Images
Flickr
Group Blog
YouTube
Google Docs

Using the Class Tools website (posted in Grumbly Tummies blog)

Make a jigsaw that shows what is a need and what is a want in
our lives
Post to Group blog

Poverty

Students to watch video of Samons life

Write a short reflection about the differences between their life
and Samons and post on group blog
Show students the World Hunger Map
Compare the economic, demographic and social differences
between Tanzania and Australia
Split students into 8 groups to partake in The Hunger Obstacle
Course
- Split class into 8 groups, and provide them with a different
colour marker
- Each group begins at a marker that has an obstacle to
overcome on it. They must rotate in a clockwise direction
- At each station they have 2 minutes to write down as may
solutions to overcome that particular object. They can only
list each solution once. 2 groups cannot list the same
solution.
- Repeat until all groups have completed all stations
Reflect on the game through verbal discussion as a class

World Hunger Map

THR
EE

Australian
Aid

Provide students with a template to begin their assignments

Rest of the lesson is used by students to begin their assignments
In their groups, students are to create a popplet of what they
have learnt so far and what they still want to learn
These questions will inform the Skype session with CARE
Australia at end of lesson

Popplet.com
Class Blog
Group Blog
Find-a-word in PDF
Skype

Students to complete find-a-word on Class blog and post in their

Group blog

FOU
R

Australian
Aid

Millennium
Developm
ent Goals

SKYPE Session with CARE Australia

Reflect on Skype session with CARE Australia through verbal
discussion as a class
Devote rest of lesson to students to continue working on their
assignments
- Complete paragraphs on Poverty and Australian
- Outline of advertisement to be completed
Introduce Millennium Goals to the class
Students to create a wordle surrounding the word goal in their
groups
Post to group blog

Laptops with
internet access
Student blogs and
other relevant
online platforms
needed
Wordle
Google Docs
Prezi
Microsoft Word

Ask students to arrange the goals from what they consider most
important to least important in an technical form (Google Docs,
Word, Prezi)

Millennium
Developm

Discuss with students which goal relates to unit of work the most
Students must research this goal and talk about it in their final
assessment task
Students research what the target of Millennium Development
Goal 1 is

Laptops with
internet access

ent Goals

Group blog
Complete Living on One dollar activity individually
Write a brief response to the activity on group blog, to explain
the differences and similarities between our life and a child living
on one dollar a day

FIVE

Staple
Foods

Devote rest of lesson to students to continue working on their

assignments
Students to research basic knowledge and general information
on Staple Foods and post notes in a Google Docs for all group
members to see
Explore on an interactive map, where the staple foods come
from

Google Docs
Interactive map
Interactive
whiteboard
Cloze activity in PDF
Class blog

Students to complete Cloze activity and post as a comment on

the Class blog

SIX

10

Staple
Foods

11

Food
Security

Devote rest of lesson to students to continue working on their

assignments
Students to participate in World Hunger Feast game to
understand how important the staple foods are
- Complete with assessment groups as the Nations
Reflect on the activity by creating an illustration on Paint or
another online platform to show the inequality of food sharing
Divide class into two groups and ask them to complete the
entertain ourselves on a budget activity as children living in
Australia and children living in Tanzania
Hold a class discussion about the differences in entertainment
and leisure activities
Devote rest of lesson to students to continue working on their

Paint
Laptop with internet
access

12

Food
Insecurity

assignments
Ask students to complete a True/False quiz on Food Insecurity
before undertaking any study into the topic.
Use a class Google Docs on the Interactive whiteboard for
students to share information gathered on food insecurity.
Discuss the biggest factors world wide of food insecurity

SEV
EN
EIG
HT

NIN
E

13

Assignmen
t Work

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Assignmen
t Work

15

Assignmen
t Work

16

Assignmen
t Work

17

Assignmen
t Work

18

Assignmen
t Work

Devote rest of lesson to students to finalise draft and email to

teacher in a Google Docs for editing and feedback
Students have the lesson to continue working on their TV
advertisement.
Students should be up to completing the final copy of their
script.
Students have the lesson to continue working on their TV
advertisement.
Students should be up to filming their advertisement.
Students have the lesson to continue working on their TV
advertisement.
Students should be up to finalising the filming of their
advertisement.
Students have the lesson to continue working on their TV
advertisement.
Students should be finalising the filming of their advertisement
and beginning of editing.
Students have the lesson to continue working on their TV
advertisement.
Students should be editing their advertisement.
Students have the lesson to continue working on their TV
advertisement.
Students should be finalising their final product.

True/False online
quiz
Google Docs
Interactive
whiteboard

Laptop with internet

access

Laptop with internet

access
Video camera
Laptop with internet
access
Video camera
Editing program
Laptop with internet
access
Video camera
Editing program
Laptop with internet
access
Video camera
Editing program
Laptop with internet
access
Video camera
Editing program

TEN

19
20

Presentati
ons
Presentati
ons

Present Final product on school assembly

Present Final product on school assembly

Projector
Laptop
Projector
Laptop