Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 4 Time: 2:00-2:50pm Students’ Prior Knowledge:
Date:21/02/2019
- Understanding and can apply researching,
Learning Area: HASS analysing, evaluating, communicating and
reflecting skills.
- Can investigate events and issues.
- Students have understanding of civics and
citizenship through the concepts of
democracy, voting and why rules are
important.
- Have an understanding of their place in
society.
- Understanding of what a law is and its
importance.
- Understand the meaning of social cohesion
and society’s values.
- The difference between rules and laws.
Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum: Civics
and Citizenship - Government and Society The
importance and purpose of laws

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

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative thinking behaviour Social understanding
competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
histories and cultures
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)
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:
• Understand the importance of laws
• Understand why we have laws

Teacher’s Prior Preparation/Organization: Provision for students at educational risk:

- Students should have access to the schools IPad’s.
- Whiteboard and markers
- Internet
LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)
- Ensure students with hearing impairments are
sitting at the front of the class and audio and
talking are loud.
- EA can be checking up on students with
learning difficulty.
- Ensure students with vision impairments have
a clear line of sight to the front and have their
glasses.
- Ensure IPad’s are set up correctly for each
students different needs.

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Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:
At the end of the class, students will discuss with a group and to the whole class what they have learn about laws.
Questions such as why do we have laws, what would our society be like without them.
Through these questions the teacher should get an understanding of what the students know, what they may need
more help understanding, how the participated in the activity and if they were engage.
Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:
Did students enjoy the lesson?
What went well and what could be more engaging or done differently?
Did any parts of the lesson cause confusion?
Did any part of the lesson need further elaborating?
Where objectives met?
Did the ICT used enhance the lesson?
[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:

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

Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the segment where they will be
introduced.
10:00 - Continuing on from last lesson, students
should have a google slide each with These Instructions will be visible on the class
Weebly page.
information regarding laws and their http://stephdifalco.weebly.com/teacher-
importance. As a class we will recap and planning-page.html
look through some good answers.
Projector and Laptop
Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure,
strategies & Key Questions):

10:10 - As a class we will brain storm some things

that might be different if we didn’t have
laws. Whiteboard
- Using Book Creator ask students to come
Book Creator on IPad’s
up with a story with the theme: “If there
were no laws”. Students should add
pictures to their book, they can be taken of
themselves using camera, they can draw
pictures, take photos and add them to the
book or they can create and use photos
online, using photo shop tools explored in
previous classes.

10:30 Lesson Closure:

(Review lesson objectives with students)
- Discuss as a class what we found out as
we wrote our books.
10:35 - Students will have time to share their books
with the class.

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10:45
Transition:
(What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)
- Books should be completed, and students
should have a solid understanding of why
we have laws and the importance of them.
- Address that next lesson we will be
proposing a new law or supporting laws
10:50 that already exist. So, students should be
thinking from now what they might decide
to do.

Assessment:
(Were the lesson objectives met? How will these be
judged?)
Assessment will be done through the completion
of their books.
Where the lesson outcomes achieved? Who may need
further help and who had complete understanding?
What might need to be gone through next time?