English
- Students could create a narrative or picture book about a
character travelling through space, what would they see? What
could they do? (Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy
settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in
texts students have experienced (ACELT1612)).
- Students could role play the eight planets orbiting the sun. Each
planet could have a speaking role in which they explain the
amount of days it takes for the planet to orbit the sun and other
fascinating facts about the planet (Plan, rehearse and deliver
presentations for defined audiences and
purposes incorporating accurate and
sequenced content and multimodal Earth and Space
elements (ACELY1700)).
Science (Year 5)
- Students could pair up and conduct
interviews about the solar system. One
students would prepare questions to ask
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their partner. The student would practice
pausing in appropriate places for their
partner to talk, paraphrasing their partners answers and using
appropriate science terminology. Students would then swap
roles (Use interaction skills, for example paraphrasing,
questioning and interpreting non-verbal cues and choose
vocabulary and vocal effects appropriate for different
audiences and purposes (ACELY1796)).
Math
- Students can create models of the solar system using a scale.
- Students interpret data, such as tables that includes the
distance of each planet of the sun (Describe and interpret
different data sets in context (ACMSP120))
- Recognising when to use different units to measure length, for
example, the diameter of planets is measured in kilometres
(Choose appropriate units of measurement for length, area,
volume, capacity and mass (ACMMG108))
• Creating a grid reference system to display
each planet’s distance from the sun (Use a
grid reference system to describe locations.
Describe routes using landmarks and
directional language (ACMMG113)).
Technology
- Students could create planets that are
relative in size. This would involve students creating a scale and
the designing each of the eight planets. Students would then
produce the planets by either choosing objects that are the
correct size of by creating each of the planets.
o Define a problem, and set of sequenced stems, with users
making a decision to create a solution for a given task
(WATPPS27)
o Identify available resources (WATPPS28)
o Develop negotiated criteria to evaluate and justify design
processes and solution (WATPPS31)