LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 7 Time: Week 4 Lesson 4 (60 mins lesson) Students’ Prior Knowledge:
Learning Area:
 Why does society need a government and
Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) laws
 What is a constitution
Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum  Why does Australia have a constitution
 The value and purpose of the Australian
ACHCK049 government

General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative behaviour Social understanding
thinking competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
histories and cultures
Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of this lesson, in point form beginning with an action verb)

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:

 Define what a referendum is
 The process to change the constitution
 Provide an example of a referendum
Teacher’s Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for EAL/D, educational-risk and special
need students:
 PowerPoint
 Students with visual difficulties are seated
 Word-Search towards to the front of the classroom - students
are aware of the seating plan
 Visual aids are used to make connections
between the key concepts and vocabulary
 Glossary sheet

Classroom Layout
Smartboard/ Whiteboard

Teacher’s desk

Student desk’s
- Students are
sitting in pairs

1
 LESSON DELIVERY (attach worksheets, examples, marking key, etc, as relevant)
Resources/Refer
Time Motivation and Introduction:
ences
 Roll Call

 Think/Pair/Share and classroom discussion

10
minutes Students with the pair seating next to them will task what learnt in week 1 – the
Australian constitution – why does Australia have a constitution and the value and
purpose (5 minutes)
Classroom following think/pair/share – specifically focusing on what a constitution is
and why does Australia have a constitution and value and purpose (5 minutes)

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):

 Introduction to changing the constitution PowerPoint (20 mins)

PowerPoint will cover how the Australian constitution can be changed (referendums).
Using diagrams to illustrate what a successful and unsuccessful referendum looks like.
Subject-specific vocabulary such as referendum, constitution, parliament etc. will be PowerPoint
40 defined for students both orally (PowerPoint) and in a written format (glossary sheet)
minutes
Worksheet
 Worksheet (20 mins)
Oxford Big Ideas
First worksheet: Humanities and
Fill in the missing word worksheet – students will be provided with the word bank to Social Sciences
select from, to fill in the missing word/s (this worksheet summarises the PowerPoint) Textbook
(should take students 5-10 mins)
Word-Search
Students struggling with the worksheet can use the Oxford Big Ideas 7 to assist them.

After students have completed the first worksheet, students will look at case study in
Oxford Big Ideas Humanities and Social Science Textbook page 434-435 and answer
1,3, and 4.

Whilst students are completing worksheets, circulate around the classroom to assist
students and gage their understanding of the topic
Word- search is also available for students who finish both worksheets earlier

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

10  Review the first worksheet with the class to ensure students have the correct
minutes answers (going around the classroom, each student reads out one sentence)