LESSON PLAN 8

Date : 25 June 2015 (Thursday)

Room :
Class/Group : 9 S&EA_4(24)/Low Ability Group

08-103

Time : 0845-0947

Topic : Government and Democracy- Australias justice system

Outcomes/Aspects/Levels
Apply their knowledge of the court system
General capabilities:
Literacy
Critical and creative thinking
Personal and social capability
Previous learning/knowledge
Knowledge and Understanding
Explain the court system in Australia

Time
0835-0845
0845-0850
(5 mins)
Entering the
classroom/
Preparing for
Class
0850-0900
(10 mins)
Pair work
0900-0910
(10 mins)
Giving
instructions

0910-0940
(30 mins)
Activity
0940-0947
(7 mins)
Dismissal

Specific objectives
At the end of the lesson, students are able to:
1. Apply their knowledge of the court system
on newspaper articles
Resources/materials needed

Newspapers
Blank piece of paper

Teaching/learning activities
Teacher to set up PowerPoint slides and the court hierarchy
on the back wall.
Teacher will greet students at the door and give instructions
that students are to sit with a friend. Students are to also
take their interactive notebooks out and rule up the table
that will be used to consolidate the information on the
court system.

Comments

Classroom Routines/
Management
Building rapport and setting up
a routine

Teacher to review with students what they had learnt about

the court system using the table. Teacher to either choose
or get students to volunteer the information.

Pair work

Teacher to then explain the activity for the day. In pairs,

students are given newspapers. They are to look through
the newspapers to look for an article that involves a case
being heard in a a court hearing. Students are to cut out the
article, paste it on the blank piece of paper and identify
answers to guided questions given by the teacher. They are
to then paste this on the wall, in the court the case belongs
to (the court hierarchy have been set up).
As students carry out the activity, the teacher to walk
around to guide students and answer any questions.

Formative Assessmentclosing gaps

Note taking- graphic
organisers

Teacher to review what students have pasted on the wall

and to get students to come up with the observation that
most cases take place at the magistrate courts.

Classroom Routines/
Management

Scaffolding- giving questions

to guide students to focus on
the video

Evaluation :
Lesson went relatively well.

Reflection :
Instead of moving the tables at the start of the lesson, I could have got students to come, seat at their
assigned seats and carry out the recap and instruction giving, before moving the chairs and tables. I
could also leave the chairs and tables and just let students work on them. Students were not
enthusiastic about reading, but with a little help and nudges by me, they got down to the task. Some
did not follow instructions and just underlined the answers instead of writing them out. Students
were also really playful and were cutting papers, folding paper airplanes.