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TERM/WEEKS:

YEAR LEVEL:

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC:

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

Critical and creative

thinking

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures

WEEK/
LESSO
N

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
LINKS

Ethical Behaviour

Personal and social

Competence

Intercultural Understanding

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

SPECIFIC LESSON
OBJECTIVE

ASSESSMENT
(what & how)

Students should have
a broad
understanding of
their groups lifecycle
and identify the
different stages of
development

Students should have
gained an
understanding of the
relevance their topics
lifecycle has to the
real world

Students should have
completed their
observations,
recording the stages
in their journals.

Students should also
be capable of
recognising that
environmental factors
can affect life cycles
such as fire and seed

Informal
assessment of
students
understanding of
lifecycles can
compare with
understandings in
earlier lessons.











Formal
assessment of the
groups Book
Creator journals.
These journals will

Sustainability

TEACHING & LEARNING

EXPERIENCES
(include learner diversity)

KEY
QUESTIONS

RESOURCES

Science
Understan
ding

Lesson
4

Science as
a Human
Endeavou
r

Science
Inquiry
Skills

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The final lesson will begin with a recap of what

has been covered over the course of the
investigation
The teacher will ask students general questions to
provoke class discussion
The teacher will then remind students that they
will be presenting their journals during class.

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Students will then separate into their groups and

work on their Book Creator journals.
Students can refer back to their original
resources, visit their experiments and update
their google.doc

The teacher will walk and monitor groups

ensuring they are all on task for the presentation
and finalisation of their journals.

Students will then create a quiz using Quizzr

about their lifecycle, including information they
will be presenting to the class.

The teacher will then ask groups, one at a time, to
present their research journals to the class.
To finalise the lesson students will answer the
other groups quizzes as a way to share their
findings.

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What is a
lifecycle and
now that
youve almost
finished your
research, is it
different to
what you
originally
thought?








What are the
stages of your
groups
lifecycle? What
interesting
facts will you
be sharing in
your
presentation?

i-Pads
Book Creator
Google.doc






Quizzr

germination

be collected and
marked by the
teacher after
presentations.