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Term 1, Week 5 Year 4 Humanities and Social Sciences

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM

General Capabilities:

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Creative Thinking Ethical Behaviour Personal and Social Competence Intercultural Understanding

Cross-Curriculum Priorities:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

Notes about device access in the classroom:

All students have one iPad each, however students that fail to bring their iPads to school will work in pairs.

WEEK/ WEST AUSTRALIAN SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES RESOURCES
LESSON CURRICULUM LINKS OBJECTIVE (What and how) (Introduction, Body and Conclusion) ICT and other

Week 5 ACHASSK088 Introduction to the topic
Lesson 1 The importance of and a brief overview of
60mins
environments to animals what is expected by the
and people and different end of the topic.
views on how they can
be protected By the end of the lesson,
students will be able to:
Identify the impact of
water pollution and its
impact on marine
wildlife.
Recognise the benefits
and consequences of
plastic.
Students answer
questions on a Google
Document regarding
information they have
learnt from watching
the video.
Lesson Introduction (20mins)
1. Students will watch a video published by Behind the News
QR Code to access YouTube
on YouTube. Students will access this video via a QR video
code that will be posted around the room. https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=PZULjkHejNw
2. After this video, individually, students will complete a quiz
based on facts recalled in the video. This quiz will be Quizizz
https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/
completed on Quizizz. 5c873e92a8dcb6001bd730ee
Lesson Body (30mins)
1. Students are split into 6 groups (4-5 students per group)
2. Students will be assigned a question on the lesson Class Weebly Site
website that they will have to research and respond on the
shared Google Document. Allow approximately 12- Google Document
https://docs.google.com/docume
15minutes for this. nt/d/1by3Xtd5z4Vbs6vJpch
3. When all students have answered the question they have 3uJuU-KdIZLA_WrV2jg06icuo/
edit?usp=sharing
been allocated, the teacher asks the group to stand up the
front of the class and present their findings to the class.

Lesson Conclusion (10mins)

1. Teacher brings students down to the mat and away from
the iPads.
 2. Teacher encourages a Think, Pair, Share between
classmates.
3. Students share something they have learnt from the
lesson that they have completed.

WEEK/ WEST AUSTRALIAN SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES RESOURCES
LESSON CURRICULUM LINKS OBJECTIVE (What and how) (Introduction, Body and Conclusion) ICT and other

Week 5 ACHASSK088 Revision of the topic and Students create an Lesson Introduction (15mins)
Lesson 2 The importance of consolidation of ideas. infographic about 1. As a class, the teacher opens a Think, Pair Share about
60mins
environments to animals plastic pollution using the activity from the previous lesson. Students revise facts
and people and different By the end of the lesson, Piktochart. and are encouraged to open up their Google Document
views on how they can students will be able to:
file to help them answer the questions.
be protected Teacher will print these
Consolidate ideas about infographics and mark 2. Students share their favourite or most memorable facts to
plastic pollution and them on a rubric. the class.
present them in a 3. Teacher shows off Piktocharts that they have previously
graphical way. created as examples of what students will create.

Reflect on ideas and Lesson Body (40mins)

information collected 1. Independently, students log in to their Piktochart accounts PIktochart
during the investigation on their iPads. https://www.piktochart.com
and decide how relevant
2. Using the questions published on the website, students Class Weebly Site
it is in today’s society.
create a Piktochart that will be sent to the local council to
be published and placed around the local area.
3. It is important that the teacher monitors what students are
doing on the iPads at all times and ensures that students
are working independently.
4. As students finish, they are to export the infographic and
send it to the teacher via AirDrop. Apple AirDrop

5. Teacher prints infographics and hands back to students to

write a message on the back.
6. Teacher uses SmartBoard to swipe through everyone’s
individual infographics so that the class can vote on them.
The infographic with the most votes gets their poster
posted around the school.

Lesson Conclusion (5mins)

1. Teacher collects all infographics while students sit on the
mat.
2. Students, while eating their Crunch&Sip, share their
answers to the activity as the teacher goes through the
questions.
 WEEK/ WEST AUSTRALIAN SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES RESOURCES
LESSON CURRICULUM LINKS OBJECTIVE (What and how) (Introduction, Body and Conclusion) ICT and other

Week 5 ACHASSK088 Wrapping up of topic, Students create a Lesson Introduction (15mins)

Lesson 3 The importance of making the activity fun comic about 1. Together, on a Google Document, students complete a
60mins Google Document
environments to animals and engaging so that all themselves in a ‘brainstorm’ style activity outlining ways in which plastic
and people and different messages stick in the situation where they pollution can be prevented or cured. The Google Doc is
views on how they can minds of students. are either preventing,
accessed through a QR code. QR Code
be protected fixing or playing a part
By the end of the lesson, in the abolishment of 2. Teacher goes through what students have added to the qrstuff.com

students will be able to: plastic pollution. Google Document and questions are asked when
incorrect answers are provided.
Consolidate ideas
regarding plastic Lesson Body (30mins)
pollution in an engaging 1. Students are to open the Pixton app and create a comic Pixton
format. about themselves in a situation where they are either
preventing, fixing or playing a part in the abolishment of
Apply knowledge of
plastic pollution.
plastic pollution cause
and prevention to real 2. Teacher must ensure that students do not spend too
world situations. much time making their character and get on with the
activity at hand.
3. When students are finished, they are to upload their comic SeeSaw
to the class SeeSaw with a catchy title and caption
explaining what is happening in the comic.

Lesson Conclusion (10mins)

1. The class come to the mat and leave their iPads at their
desk.
2. The teacher goes through the class SeeSaw showing
everyone’s comics as a class.
3. Discussions are opened where students choose.