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LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: Year 5 Time: 55 minutes
Date: Week 3
creative thinking
Ethical
behaviour
Personal and
Social
competence
Intercultural
understanding
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)
Sustainability
N/A
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:
Create a Spiderscribe containing ideas about immigration
Demonstrate appropriate research skills using the internet
Make thoughtful comments on another students work
Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation:
An ipad per student
1 set of headphones per student
Log in details of each student available for
Spiderscribe
Log in details for each student available for Kidblog
Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:
A rubric will be used to determine:
Could the students recognise the changes that an immigrant to Australia would experience?
Could the students use the iPads appropriately?
Could the students use Spiderscribe efficiently?
What was the standard of Spiderscribe that was produced by the students?
What were the limitations of using Spiderscribe compared to other applications that produce a comic page?
Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:
Anecdotal notes will be kept on:
Were the students interested in the lesson that you presented them with?
Did each student participate?
Were all objectives met?
What aspects of the lesson did the students complete?
How can this be improved?
[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:
Resources
Weebly.com
Spiderscribe.net
3. Students open Task 1 and watch a video on the story of The Little
Refugee by Anh Do and Suzanne Do
Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):
1.35pm
1. Students are asked to open up Spiderscribe and log in
Is anyone having difficulty logging in?
2. Students create a new Spiderscribe, focussing on two different countries
Can I hear some of the countries you have chosen?
3. Students use appropriate websites to research the countries
Scholastic
Britannica
4. For each country they are required to research the cultural differences, the
number of immigrants per year, length of the journey to Australia
Who is having difficulty finding information?
2. 15pm
2.25
References:
Australian Curriculum(2014) retrieved from:
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/humanities-and-social-sciences/introduction
Tan, S. (2009). The arrival. Sydney, Australia: Lothian Books.