LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: Five

Time: 1:00-1:50

Date: 17th March

Students Prior Knowledge:

Learning Area: Biological Science

Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum:
ACSSU043 - Living things have structural features and
adaptations that help them to survive in their environment

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

Critical and
Literacy
Numeracy
ICT
competence

Students have basic computer skills.

Students understand that living things,
including plants and animals, depend on each
other and environment to survive
(ACSSU073).
Students understand that animals need to be
suited to their environment.

Ethical
behaviour

creative thinking

Personal and
Social
competence

Intercultural
understanding

Cross-curriculum priorities
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
histories and cultures
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

Sustainability

Lesson Objectives
As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:
Create a fictional animal and environment using the website Build Your Wild Self.
Describe how the fictional animals features help it survive in its habitat using Pic Collage.
Demonstrate basic ICT competency by using Build Your Wild Self and Pic Collage.
Teachers Prior Preparation/ Organisation:

Class set of iPads charged and ready.

The Who am I game to be prepared on
PowerPoint.
Teacher created Build Your Wild Self work sample
for lesson example.
Marking key created and printed for use in the
lesson.
HDMI cord to connect student iPads to the
interactive whiteboard.

Provision for students at educational risk:

The open-ended design of the lesson caters

for the learning diversity of the students.
Advanced students for example can write more
complex annotations on their Build Your Wild
Self creation.

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:


Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:

[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:

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

Time

Motivation and Introduction:

Resources/References

Students will be sitting facing the interactive whiteboard. Teacher to

ask three questions about the previous lesson to engage students
prior knowledge. These can include:
How do we as humans survive in our environment?
Can you describe one of our bodily features that help us
adapt in our environment? (Example: Our eyelashes keep
debris from getting in our eyes).
Can you give me an example of an animal and how its
features help it survive in its environment?

Interactive whiteboard

Following this motivational questioning, students will play Who am I?

as a class. Using the interactive whiteboard, students will guess the
name of the animal based on clues given regarding the animals
adaptations and structural features. For example:
I am an amphibian
I have a cleft tongue in order to catch insects
My limbs are folded underneath me so I can leap of things
My skin is brown, grey or green so I can blend into my
environment
Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key
Questions):
Teacher will brief students on the lesson activity and the task to be
completed in todays lesson. The Weebly will be displayed on the
interactive whiteboard and the lessons quest will be presented.
Students are to follow the stipulated steps in the Weebly:
Students are to use the web page Build Your Wild Self to
create a fictional animal in its own environment.
Once created, students are to click print on the webpage,
which opens the image as a separate document.
Students are to save their animal into the camera roll on their
iPads.
Following this, students will open Pic Collage (using the
class login). They will them open their animal creation and
annotate over the image using Pic Collage. In their
annotations students must address how their animals
structural features are suited to its environment.

Work samples
Wildlife Conservation Society.
(2011). Build Your Wild Self.
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/
Cardinal Blue. (2011). Pic
Collage. http://pic-collage.com/
HDMI cord
Marking key

As the activity is described the students will be briefed on how to use

each form of ICT. Both applications are quite intuitive so whilst the
class will be briefed on each application, the teaching of this ICT will


not be explicit.
Class to be shown an example of a finished product to clarify
expectations. Likewise, the marking key will be handed to students so
the assessment criteria is clear.
Students to retrieve their own iPad, return to their desk and begin
activity. The teacher is to monitor students throughout the activity,
assisting students as needed.
Early finishers may assist other students who are struggling with the
ICT components.
Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)
Once finished the students are to save their collages to camera roll
on their iPads. Student will participate in a Think-Pair-Share
discussion about the creation of their animal and how its structural
features help it survive in its environment.
Students to regroup in front of the interactive whiteboard. Individually
students will present their final product to the class. In their
presentation they are to describe why they chose the features they
used and how it helps their fictional creature.
Students will sure Survey Monkey to reflect on the ICT components
used in the lesson (Pic Collage and Build Your Wild Self). This will
inform the teachers future practice and use of the ICT.
Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)
Students are to log off and pack iPads away carefully, and prepare for
the next lesson.
Assessment:
See attached for marking key

Lesson 4 Assessment
Working beyond

Achieved

Working towards

Not Achieved

Student has created

a fictional animal and
its environment
using the website
Build Your Wild Self

Student has used

used Pic Collage to
describe how the
fictional animals
features help it
survive in its habitat

Student has
demonstrated basic
ICT competency by
using Build your
Wild Self and Pic
Collage.

Grade and Teacher comment: