SOSE:

Geography
LESSON EXPERIENCE PLAN 2

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Lesson Experience Plan 2

Concept: Interconnection - The interconnections between people, places and environments.
Lesson Focus:
Understanding why
my place is special?
Learning Area / Strand:
Geography: Geographical Knowledge and
Understanding (ACHGK018)
Year Level:
Year 3
Implementation Date:
05/09/14
Duration: 50 minutes
Prior knowledge (Year 2 achievement level Geography and English):
They describe how people in different places are connected to each other and identify factors that influence these
connections. (ACARA, 2014, p. 355.)
They explain why places are important to people. (ACARA, 2014, p. 355.)
They identify literal and implied meaning, main ideas and supporting detail.
Students make connections between texts by comparing content. They listen for particular purposes. (ACARA,
2014, p. 54.)
They create texts that show how images support the meaning of the text. (ACARA, 2014, p. 54.)
Students create texts, drawing on their own experiences, their imagination and information they have learned.
(ACARA, 2014, p. 54.)
They use a variety of strategies to engage in group and class discussions and make presentations. (ACARA,
2014, p. 54.)
Lesson objective/s:
To understand and learn that place can have special meaning, according to an individuals connectedness to that
place, which should be valued and respected.
Evidence of learning:
Students compose a Two-word poem based of their special place. (See example poem in Appendix 2, p.17.)
Students display their poem on the classroom wall. (Students may wish to share their poem during a school
assembly.)
Resources:
Two-word poem graphic organiser.
Two-word poem example.
A Ute Picnic and other Australian Poems by Lorraine Marwood.
Story: My Place by Nadia Wheatley.
Images of people demonstrating connectedness.
Folder and pencil case.
Introduction
(10 minutes.)
Lesson starts outdoors under a tree. Students to sit comfortably, listening to poem Tree, A
Portrait by Lorraine Marwood. (Appendix 2, p. 16.)
Discuss the meaning of the poem; look at how the tree is connected to nature and links to the
previous lesson: tree/house/special/interconnection.
Demonstrate connection with people and nature. Provide images to analyse, for example,
indigenous peoples and their connections to the environment physical and spiritual.
(Appendix 2, p.17 & 18.)
Encourage students to share ideas about how they are connected to the world they live in.
Body
(15 minutes for
Think, Pair
Share, & 15
minutes for
writing poem.)
Teacher to provide explicit instruction for completing a Two-word poem writing task.
Explain lesson task: To write their own poem about their special place.
Provide an example of the two-word poem. (Appendix 2, p.16.)
Students to work in pairs, (Think, Pair, Share) discussing ideas for their poem.
Students to compose own poem using a graphic organiser. (Appendix 2, p. 17.)
Following on from the activity the students can present their poem to the class (or at school
assembly).
SOSE:
Geography
LESSON EXPERIENCE PLAN 2

Student: Anne Howard s0232100 Assessment Task 2 Lecturer: Karena Menzie 2 | P a g e



Conclusion
(5 minutes recap
& 5 minutes for
story.)
Teacher to
Recap on lesson, clarify and assess student understanding, receiving verbal feedback, about
place, and how it can have special meaning, according to an individuals connectedness to
that place, which then should be valued and respected. (Students display poems on the class
wall.)
Read next story in My Place by Nadia Wheatley. (Reaffirm people and place are
interconnected.)
Remind Students next lesson will include guest speakers from the local Indigenous Well
Being Centre and Wildlife Services.
Evaluation / Reflection:
This lesson plan has not been implemented.