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TERM 3 / WEEK 5 UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE YEAR LEVEL: 6

Friday DEVELOPMENT GOAL: Goal 14: Life below
water
GENERAL CAPABILITIES
Literacy Numeracy ICT Capability Critical and Creative Thinking Ethical Understanding Personal and Social
Capability
CROSS CURRICULUM PRIORITIES
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures A ia and A alia engagemen i h A ia Sustainability

SCSA LINKS
Design Design Digital Digital TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES RESOURCES/KEY
Technologies Technologies Technologies Technologies QUESTIONS
Knowledge & Process & Knowledge & Process & Presenatation and Test of Machines
Understandings Production Skills Understandings Production
Skills
Lesson objectives: in project groups, students present their machine
to the class and test it in a container of water to see how effective it
is in collecing the oil
students evaluate if any improvements are required on their
machines

(ACTDEP028 (ACTDEP026 (ACTDIP021

Introduction: Resources:
- Teacher congratulates students on the completion of - Large containers of
their machines water
With guidance, pose clarifying questions and make
predictions about scientific investigations (ACSIS232 - Teacher re-highlights the importance of removing oil - Oil food dye
from the ocean
Reflect on and suggest improvements to scientific
investigations (ACSIS108
 ASSESSMENT
Body: Presenation requires:
- Groups present their oil clean up machine to the class - Name of machine
Summative Assessment – Oil Clean Up Machine Rubric - How it
and test the machine in the container of water
whether if it will pick up water works/method
used
- Is it effective in
cleaning up oil?
Conclusion: - Materials used
- Students in their groups reflect on how well their - Is it ethical and
machine worked in collecting the oil sustainable for the
- Students have time to make improvemnts to their environmentt?
machine if meeded before next week where they
present them to parents.

LEARNER DIVERSITY
SAER, SWD and EALD provided with prompts when presenting their
machines
G&T given extension questions