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TERM / WEEKS: Term 3 UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE YEAR LEVEL: 5

Week 3 DEVELOPMENT GOAL: Goal 15
GENERAL CAPABILITIES
Literacy Numeracy ICT Capability Critical and Creative Ethical Personal and Social Ethical
Thinking Understanding Capability Understanding
CROSS CURRICULUM PRIORITIES
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

SCSA LINKS
Design Design Digital Digital TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES RESOURCES/KEY
Technologies Technologies Technologies Technologies QUESTIONS
Knowledge & Process & Knowledge & Process &
Understandings Production Understandings Production
Skills Skills

Work Create and Introduction Agree/disagree line: -

independently, communicate - Stand on line activity where students consider a number of
or information,
- Bees are extremely
statements about bees, and justify their opinions. important to our Earth
collaboratively including
when online - Discussion and recap about what students learned in the - Everything would die
required, to collaborative incursion in the previous lesson.
without bees
plan, safely projects, Lesson Steps
develop and using agreed - Students create a book about Bees using an app called book
- There is not much
communicate social, ethical
creator on their classroom Ipads. Students will be provided with a we can do to help
ideas and and technical bees
information for protocols sheet that outlines what students must include in their books.
solutions (codes of - Students participate in a lucky dip where they draw the name of - Bee keeping is an
(WATPPS32) conduct) the bee species that they will be reporting on. easy job
(ACTDIP022) - Students access information for the book through QR codes - Bees like all flowers
posted all around the classroom on walls. The QR codes take Classroom Ipads,
OTHER SCSA LINKS eg Maths, Science students to website links that will aid in their research.
Bookcreator
Living things have structural features and adaptations - Students spend the rest of the class researching and creating
that help them to survive in their their books. Websites.
environment(ACSSU043) Conclusion See Saw
Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying - Class discussion about results of the students research.
appropriate text processing strategies, for example - Students upload their books to See Saw
predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, - Students fill out an exit slip
skimming and scanning(ACELY1702)
 OBJECTIVES
Individually, students are able to research a particular
bee species and present their finding in the form of a
book using Bookcreator.
Students are able to describe the physical
characteristics of a bee and where it lives in the form
of a book.
LEARNER DIVERSITY
Students with learning difficulties can also be provided with pre
written class notes
- Students with neural disorders can have access to a lesson run-
through/timetable of the lesson and any activities taking place.
- Students with hearing or vision impairments to be sat at the front
of the class during discussions and mat activities.

Students are able to creatively present their findings

about bees, by including colour, pictures and
drawings in their books.
ASSESSMENT
All objectives will be measured in the form of a book
using the Ipad app Bookcreator. The objectives will be
assessed using a marking rubric.