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LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
LESSON 2 ORGANISATION
Year Level: 5
Learning Area:
Science
Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum
creative thinking
Ethical
Personal and
Intercultural
behaviour
Social
understanding
competence
Sustainability
of technology e.g.
a) iPads
smartboard
assortment.
QR codes made, printed and laminated. x8 codes each contains one clue corresponding to a
particular planet.
Time
1. Students come and sit in a chair that have been arranged in a
semicircle at the front of the class in front of the interactive
smartboard.
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2. Teacher instructs them to feel under their chair for a small star. Stars
Small coloured,
numbered stars
3. Your star colour will match another students coloured star and that will
become your group. When I instruct you to - If you are a 1, come
collect an iPad from me. If you are a 2 or blank space star, come
collect a QR code and find a desktop computer to sit at. You only need
one QR code!
4. Once you select your QR code, scan it with your iPad and you will see
that a clue and URL code come up. This clue is about a planet you will
Interactive Smartboard
be researching and the URL code is the link to this website [show on
Weebly
smartboard] where you will find all the resources you need to find out
(http://y5solarsystem.we
ebly.com/ )
5. When you go to the website, ensure that you read Your Mission by
clicking the button on the homepage
6. Show students general navigation around website.
7. Does everyone understand what they need to be doing? Okay collect
your iPads and QR code and lets get started!
Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):
1. Students collect iPad and QR code, and go to a desktop computer and
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QR codes
iPads
iPad they were using.
3. Call the students back to the chairs in front of the interactive
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8. Next have students open the Tiny Tap app on their iPads and open the
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Mimio Programdiagrammatic
representation of the
solar system
Interactive Smartboard.
right and question the class if a student gets it wrong. i.e. Class do we
all agree that is where Venus belongs
2. The teacher will say Who was doing Mars? and have them move
their planet. Then something like Now who was doing Neptune? and
have them move their planet. This is so groups are not called up in
planet order and give away where they are on the diagram.
3. Once all 8 groups have moved their planet the class will be able to see
a large diagrammatic display of the whole solar system.
4. The teacher can hone in on how the Earth is just one planet in our
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solar system that orbits the sun, and how there is still so much to be
learnt about our solar system that we dont know. But I think you have
all done an excellent job on finding out lots of information about all
sorts of things to do with the fascinating planets of our solar system!
Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)
1. Students to give back their QR codes to the teacher.
2. Log off desktop computers.
3. Students return to their desks quietly and wait for further instructions
Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will these be judged?)
1. A test will be conducted at the end of the Space and Earth Science
unit on the Solar System, assssing students knowledge of the content,
including planet order and orbit time (Objective 1). This assessment
will be formally taken at a later date and not at the end of this lesson.
2. Teachers are to note observations of which students answer correctly
in class when prompted and also what score they got on the TinyTap
quiz, by getting them to each play individually.