Handout 5: Planning Template

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Use the planning template below to jot down ideas for an enquiry-based science activity that you can
use in your classroom.

Enquiry-Based Science Activity

What are some big questions you What are some sub-questions that relate to the big
could ask? question?
For example: For example:
• How do we know micro-organisms • Can we see micro-organisms? How?
really exist? • Do micro-organisms respire?
• What is friction? • Do micro-organisms grow? Does temperature
• Why do we need plants? affect their growth? Are there ways to stop them
from growing?
• What evidence do we have that micro-organisms
cause changes?

Which if your sub-questions could be How could you investigate the sub-question?
answered by an investigation?
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Name of Activity: Duration: Grade Level:

Key Knowledge and Understanding: Which practices will be emphasised?

Connect
How will you generate interest? Connect to
prior knowledge? Target and frame key
ideas?

Investigate
How will you have students explore the
concepts? What hands-on experiences will
students engage in? How will you probe
students’ thinking? How will you help
students formulate questions for
investigation?
Synthesise
How will you have students explain and
elaborate on their thinking from their
investigations? What are some big ideas you
expect students to state? How will you
connect their language to the formal
scientific language?
Demonstrate
How will you assess your students’
understanding? What is a task you can have
them complete to show their
understanding?

Notes