Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level:
5
Time:
Date: 30/01/2017

9:20am -10:20am

Learning Area: Humanities and social sciences

Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum
Examine different viewpoints on actions, events, issues and
phenomena in the past and present
ACHASSI099
Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a
range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials,
digital and non-digital representations and disciplinespecific terms and conventions
ACHASSI105
Examine primary sources and secondary sources to
determine their origin and purpose
ACHASSI098

Students Prior Knowledge:

Use iMovie- import images and record audio

Can investigate people, events, places and

issues

Sequence information about peoples lives and

events

Examine information to identify different points

of view and distinguish facts from opinion

Able to draw on simple conclusions based on

analysis of information and data
(ACHASSI079)

Express ideas, findings and conclusions that

can be represented in a digital format.

Can screenshot and locate screen captured

images in the library of an ICT device.

Know the difference between primary and

secondary sources

General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)

Critical and
Literacy
Numeracy
ICT
Cross-curriculum priorities

creative
competence
thinking
(may be addressed in the lesson)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

histories and cultures
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)

Ethical
behaviour

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

Personal and
Social
competence

Intercultural
understanding

Sustainability

Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of this lesson, in point form beginning with an action verb)
As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:
Interpret at least 2 primary sources and 2 secondary sources to give a description about the role of women
and children during the Australia Gold-Rush of the 1850s.
Use iMovie to present a description of at least 2 primary sources and 2 secondary sources individually.


Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation:

Fully Charged iPads (enough for each student)

The Book Creator app downloaded and readily

working on each iPad

The link to Women & Children lesson readily

Provision for students at educational risk:

Hearing and vision impaired students to sit
close to the teacher when instructions are
given to increase understanding of the
instructions

Ensure students with a behaviour problem are

not sitting together or in the same group. This
will increase teacher supervision over
behaviour through surveillance by the teacher
and increased attentiveness of the student

Keeping eye contact for those students with

attention difficulties so that they are more
aware to decrease the chances of getting
distracted.

Students who do not have 4 members in a

group can complete the remaining lesson as a
group.

available for students, the teacher should write this

link on the whiteboard for all students to see if
possible (http://goldrushpov.weebly.com/lessonfour-the-women.html)

Make sure the Internet is working.

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:

Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:

[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:


LESSON DELIVERY (attach worksheets, examples, marking key, etc, as relevant)
Time

Motivation and Introduction:

1. The teacher informs the students on the plan for todays lesson
Today we will be continuing on with our Gold Rush Webquest, students who
are due to complete the Women & Children lesson will find this lesson as the
fourth option underneath the Goldrush Adventures tab.

Resources/Reference
s
Align these with the
segment where they will
be introduced.
WebQuest link

2. The teacher is to clarify students understanding by questioning

todays task
Hands up if you know what you are to be doing today
If the teacher notices that only a few hands are up, the teacher is to ask a
student who raised their hand to clarify with the class the tasks, this will be
done so by asking
Who can tell me what we are doing today?
Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):
1. Students log on to their devices
2. Students type in the web address for the WebQuest written on the

Ipads

whiteboard
3. The students one member from each group of 4 is to complete this
Women & Children Gold rush experience lesson.
4. Students are to read the goals of the lesson so that they are aware of
what they should achieve by the end of the lesson.
5. Students are to create a wordle to express their prior knowledge

Wordle

exploring the role and the impact of Women & Children during the
Gold Rush.
6. Students are to look at the four sources presented on the Web Quest
and determine which sources are primary sources and which sources

Primary & Secondary

resources

and secondary.
7. Students are to then research the pictures or topic pictures and
create description explaining each of the sources. This description

iMovie

should include the time and place in history, relevant events, the
experience the Women & Children had during the Goldfields and how


the source helps us to understand this.
8. Students are to then import the images into iMovie and record their
description over each photo using the voice record tool.
9. Students to import their wordle and embed their iMovie into the book

Book Creator

creator app.

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

1. Once students have completed their work in the book creator app and

Strike it Rich! Game

the tasks listed on the WebQuest, they are then to play the interactive
game Strike it rich! in the character of the Women.

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

iPads are to be returned (if school owned) and placed on charged.

Students are to return to their seats and await further teacher

instruction.

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will these be judged?)

The lesson objectives have been met throughout the ICT tools
integrated in each of the Web Quest activities.

Students achievement of the outcomes will be assessed according to

the assessment guides of ACHASSI098, ACHASSI099 and
ACHASSI105.