Lesson: 2

Year level:
4

Time: 50-60min

Curriculum outcomes:
(Ongoing over the unit of work in the multidisciplinary areas or Science, English and ICT)
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of
print and digital sources (ACELY1703)
Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for
example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning(ACELY1702)
Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural
and historical contexts (ACELT1608)
Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic as well as the degree of
formality (ACELA1504)
Plan, draft and publish informative print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language
features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704)

Aim: (Explore)
Activity:
Students use their I-pads to search up and
locate information about their chosen natural
phenomenon.
They are required to search up and locate
information themselves by navigating through
webpages and assessing texts (using text
processing strategies) to find the specific
information they are after.
Once they have identified aspects of text that
they require for their presentation they need
to put that into their power point
presentation.

ICT:
Searching tool on I-pads
(safari)
Power point to begin
presentation. Students will
search through online
information pages, advertising
as well as media reporting
pages.
Google maps may also be
used to locate, compare and
assess different locations on
the earth.