FORWARD PLANNING DOCUMENT

TERM/WEEKS: T1 W5 YEAR LEVEL: One LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: HASS

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
thinking Competence 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: iPads will be given to each group. They will use the iPads collaboratively.

WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Week 5 The natural, Create mind map about the Assess the mind Introduction:
Lesson 2 managed and attributes of the Australian map the students Ask the children if they remember the story ‘Wombat Stew’ by Wombat Stew by Marcia
constructed featur desert. have created with Marcia K Vaughn. K Vaughn
es of places, their their groups by Recap the story and ask the students if they know where the story
location on a submitting a was set; the desert.
pictorial map, how screenshot of the Body:
they mind map to the  Distribute the iPads to each group. The students will be in the One iPad per group
may change over SeeSaw assessment same groups as they were in lesson one. The Popplet app on each
time (e.g. erosion, tab.  Each group will have to complete a Popplet. iPad.
revegetated areas,  The Popplet will have such headings: temperature, plants, Students will gather
planted crops, new animals and things to do. information from
buildings) and how  The children will also have to compile a collage of what the http://www.scienceforki
they can be cared Australian desert looks like and attach it to the popplet. The dsclub.com/desert.html
for (ACHASSK031) students have to use pixabay to create their collage, using free
images. Pixabay
 Allow children around 20-30minutes to complete the task.
SeeSaw
Conclusion:
Reiterate to the children that the desert is a hot and dry place
which habituates animals like lizards and more facts about the
desert.