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TERM/WEEKS: 1/2 YEAR LEVEL: 5 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Science

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
thinking Competence Understanding
Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

Notes about device access in the classroom:

Students need a laptop, iPad or tablet.
WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Lesson 1 Living things have As a result of this lesson, students Formative Introduction: - Kahoot
structural will be able to: Assessment: Students will be placed in small groups and will share a tablet - WordCloud
Week 2 features and - Present prior knowledge Kahoot quiz will between them. They will take part in a Kahoot quiz as a team - QR Codes
adaptations that of animal adaptations give an indication which will test any basic prior knowledge they have about animal
- Websites
help them to using the ICT tool Kahoot. of prior knowledge adaptations and wildlife environments.
survive in their of the topic, as well Lesson: - YouTube
- Understand how to utilise
environment. as students Students are to use the ICT tool WordCloud. Students will make
(ACSSU043) QR code reading capability using a their own image individually, which will incorporate one main
technology and tablet. topic in large text, this being one of a range a wildlife animals set
Collect, store and WordCloud as a method of by the teacher, surrounded by smaller text that includes anything
present different exploring and learning they know about that animal’s adaptations and living conditions.
types of data for about the new concept of Around the room will be 20 QR codes that the teacher has set up
a specific purpose animal adaptations. prior to the lesson. These QR codes have links to several websites,
using software. images and videos about all the given wildlife animals, to assist
(ACTDIP016) students in completing their WordCloud image.
Conclusion:
Students are invited to share their WordCloud with the class
explaining why they chose the animal they did and what
interesting facts they found out from the QR codes around the
classroom.