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TERM/WEEKS: Term 1 – YEAR LEVEL: Year 4 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Science – Life cycles &
week 2 dependency

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:

- Ensure all iPads are fully charged
- All class members should have access to their own iPads
- All relive the apps downloaded prior to class beginning
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WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Week2 Living things 1. Students will research Summative Introduction

Lesson depend on each the effect that bee’s
5 other and the have on our lives
environment to
2. Students will be able to
survive
use iMotion to show
(ACSSU073)
what would happen if
an element from your
food chain was taken
away.
assessment 1. Chatterpix motivation – students watch a short clip Teacher uses emoji
created on Chatterpix giving a brief outline on the me and chatterpix to
Teacher will mark importance of Bee’s to our lives. create a motivational
students work video.
2. Teacher too outline the idea that all living
samples (food
chain) against a components of a food chain depend on each other
marking rubric. 3. Using the MindNode app on the smart board
Key point – students create a mind map on their knowledge MindNode app
students are able surrounding food chains and dependency.
to establish that if
one species is Body
removed from a 1. Revisiting the website from the previous lesson
food chain all are students review the dependency of producers and https://www.enchant
effected. consumers edlearning.com/subjec
ts/foodchain/
2. Using the imotion application on their iPad’s
students review their presentation from the imotion app used to
previous lesson, and show what will happen if one create a series of still
species from their environment becomes extinct. images creating a
visual story
Conclusion
1. Students will plug their iPads into the smart board
and show the class their representation of what
happens when animals become extinct.
2. Teacher revisits the mind map adding any extra
MindNode app
information that the students can add.