Unit/Lesson Title The True Cost of Materials Lesson duration 50mins Stage 4 Year 8 Class 8 materials

Rationale Syllabus Outcomes Syllabus Content

Students understand the TE4-9MA investigates how the characteristics and properties of  investigate products and services for the individual and/or the
embedded cost of raw tools, materials and processes affect their use in designed community, considering ethical and social factors
material production. solutions (ACTDEK029) ST

Prior Knowledge Risk Assessment Resources

Students understanding of Movement around classroom Computers, VR headsets, Smart board.
raw materials. Motion sickness. Rio Tinto VR tour.
https://www.oculus.com/experiences/go/2394684733881252/?
locale=en_US
Google doc. Worksheet.
Lesson Time Teachers Role Students Role Assessment
Outcomes Strategies
3- 5 mins Introduction Learning from prior lesson quickly reviewed. Students give answers and ask questions. Formative
Lesson introduced and described as a tour of assessment of
Rio Tinto mine to see the enormity of the prior knowledge.
process, what components make up this Students collect headsets and log onto VR
process, and the environmental impact of this tour.
Students process.
understand
the cost to the Teacher to organise students into pairs, one One student looks at different aspects of
environment wears the headset describing areas of the mine, mining, describing what they see and Continual
to gain these Body while the other contributes to a class Google answering questions, for the other student to assessment of
materials and doc. write in Google doc. VR use and
the cost of responses.
waste. Part way through the lesson, have students Reverse rolls and continue answering
change rolls and continue. questions.

Comment may be made on, or added to other

student’s posts.
Summative
At the end of the lesson discuss VR tour and the Students discuss, ask questions and give assessment of
Review/ impact and cost of mining on the environment, comment on findings. completed
Conclusion while displaying Google doc posts to class. answers.

Lesson Evaluation