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TERM/WEEKS: YEAR LEVEL: 5 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Science

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 Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
Cultures

WEEK/ SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING KEY RESOURCES

LESSON OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES QUESTIONS
(include learner diversity)
Science Science as
Understandin a Human
g Endeavour
Week 1 The Earth is Science 1) Brainstorm prior 1) Formative Introduction “Ok year fives Bubbl.us is a
part of involves electronic
Lesson a system of testing knowledge about assessment at the  The lesson will begin with a brainstorm that will I want you to
beginning of the motivate the students and activate their prior brainstorm brainstorming
1 planets predictions the Solar System. website
orbiting by lesson that knowledge about the Solar System everything you
around a gathering https://bubbl.us/
motivates and  Students will work in pairs and will use the website know about
star (the data and 2) list and identify Follow the link and
activates bubbl.us on their iPads. the Solar click “start
sun) (ACSS using evid the different students’ prior System.”
U078) ence to  The teacher will instruct the students to begin by brainstorming” to
develop
planets and objects knowledge about “Can you
writing “The Solar System” in the first bubble and to begin.
explanatio in our Solar space. I will connect any of the ideas they believe are related. remember
ns of System. collect each  After a set amount of time the teacher will stop the what colour
events
and groups class and collaborate the information to make a that planet is?”
phenomen brainstorm. brainstorm on the whiteboard. This will pool the “Does that
a and planet have QR codes can be
reflects
whole classes prior knowledge and will assist those created on
2) Summative who are lacking in the area. any moons?” https://www.qrstuff.
historical
and assessment in the com/ using a link
cultural form of a to the website that
contributio worksheet which is being viewed.
ns (ACSH
Body
the students fill  Before the start of the lesson the teacher has This video is an
E081)
out as they pinned up different pictures of objects in the Solar Questions on example of what
explore different the activity the resources will
System. Pinned next to these images will be QR be
learning material codes that the student can scan with their iPad’s. sheet may
about the Solar include: “How https://www.youtub
 These QR codes will take students to links of videos e.com/watch?
System that give information about the objects. many moons v=6KY-oB2i9lo&t
does Jupiter
 The teacher will tell the students to walk around the
have?” “Who
classroom and scan the QR codes with their iPad’s
first
and watch the videos.
discovered
 The teacher may make the classroom atmospheric
Mercury?”
by dimming the lights, covering the windows to
Does Mars
make it seem as if the students are in space.
have an
 To go with the videos the students will be given a atmosphere?”
question sheet that has several different questions
about the Solar System and the objects in it.
 Each video will have one or two questions in which
the students must answer.

Conclusion “Why do you

 The lesson will conclude with a discussion of what think that
was learnt. The teacher will go through the Saturn and
questions and discuss their answers to give the Uranus have
students an opportunity to learn from mistakes, so many
reaffirm their answers or fill in any of the questions moons?” “Why
they didn’t get to. is the sun so
 The worksheet will be collected at the end of the important for
lesson to assess the students’ progress. life on Earth?”
 “Why do
planets and
Moons such
as Mercury
have so many
craters and the
Earth have so
few?”

WEEK/ SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING KEY RESOURCES

LESSON OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES QUESTIONS
(include learner diversity)
Science Science as
Understandin a Human
g Endeavour
Week The Earth is Science 1) Discuss how the 1) Formative Introduction “Is this Bring up a scale
part of involves image of the Solar
1 a system of testing relative distances assessment in the  Lesson will begin with the teacher holding a picture picture
form of an up of the Solar System. The teacher will explain that correct?” System on the
Lesson planets predictions between the Earth, projector or print
2 orbiting by Sun and other observation of the the distances shown between the planets on the Why isn’t it
around a gathering one out from
discussion that picture are wrong. correct?”
star (the data and planets are much google images.
takes place after  Explain that the image is not to scale and that a
sun) (ACSS using evid larger than what watching the
U078) ence to scale is when the distances and sizes of the objects
develop
may be shown on a video on the scale on a map or diagram have all been shrunk by the
explanatio diagram of the of the Solar same size so that the relative distance or sizes of
ns of Solar System. System. the object are still the same.
events
and  Explain that due to the huge sizes in the Solar
phenomen 2) Research 2) Summative System to make a scale of the Solar System you
a and assessment that Start video at 2:03
reflects
information about need a huge amount of space. That is why we don’t end video at 4:40
the characteristics assesses see scale images of the Solar System in pictures. https://www.youtu
historical
and of a planet in the students’ ability to  The teacher will then show a video showing the be.com/watch?
cultural research construction of a scale model of the Solar System “What have v=Kj4524AAZdE
contributio
Solar System such
information on the you learnt
ns (ACSH as: its history, its characteristics of about the
E081) identifiable features a planet in the Body size of the
and its location and Solar System Solar
movement through Students will
 The students will get into pairs and be given a System?”
random planet in the Solar System. Britannica School
space. present to the
class what they  Explain to the students’ that they will research their https://school.eb.c
planet and make a short movie in the next lesson om.au/?target=
have discovered %2Flevels
about their planet that shares some interesting information about the
during the lesson. planet.
Assessment will  Students will use Britannica School to research the
be an observation information which can be accessed via the student’s
of students’ short iPad.
presentation.  The teacher will focus the learning by asking
students to gather information on three main areas:
The history of the planet, which includes information
on how humans discovered it and the history of how
it formed. Its identifiable features such as its colour,
whether it has an atmosphere, whether it may have
frozen water on its surface and how it was named.
Its place in space, such as what order it is from the
sun, how long it takes to orbit the sun, how long it
takes to rotate on its axis.
 Students will record the information in their
notebooks. “Does
anyone want
to share an
Conclusion interesting
 At the end of the lesson the teacher will give 10 fact that they
minutes of time for some students to stand up and have learnt
talk for 1-2 minutes about what they have learnt. today?”
 This will help the student review what they have
learnt and give other students a chance to learn
something about another planet.
 The students work will be collected at the end of the
lesson as an assessment.

WEEK/ AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM SPECIFIC ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING KEY RESOURCES
LESSON LINKS LESSON (what & how) EXPERIENCES QUESTIONS
OBJECTIVE (include learner diversity)
 Science Science Science Inquiry
Understandin as a Skills
g Human
Endeavou
r
Week 1 The Earth is Science Communicate 1) Review 1) Formative Introduction Teachers can
part of involves ideas, create a quiz at
Lesson a system of testing explanations what was assessment will  The lesson will begin with a quiz on what was learnt
be a quiz that in the previous lessons. The quiz will have https://kahoot.com
3 planets predictio and processes learnt /?
orbiting ns by using scientific previously reviews content questions such as: What is the fourth planet in the
around a gatherin representations utm_name=control
that was learnt in solar system? What is Jupiter’s diameter? What
star (the g data a in a variety of on the ler_app&utm_sour
previous lessons. makes Mars red? What is the size of the solar ce=controller&utm
sun) (ACSS nd ways, including Solar The quiz will be
U078) using evi multi-modal system? Which planet orbits around the sun faster? _campaign=contro
dence to texts (ACSIS093
System. done on the  After the quiz the teacher will go through and ller_app&utm_me
develop ) Kahoot! website. discuss some of the questions that were answered dium=link
explanat 2) Create The students need
ions of incorrectly.
a short 1- 2) Summative to be sent to
events
and 2-minute assessment will https://kahoot.it/
phenom be the marking of and given the four-
ena and
video that Body digit pin to access
presents a short video  After the quiz the teacher will begin explaining the quiz.
reflects
historical information which assesses how the students should create their video.
and the students’  The teacher will introduce the app ExplainEverything
cultural
on a planet
knowledge on the ExplainEverything and how it can be used to is the App that the
contribut in the planet that they students will use
ions (AC Solar create a movie.
SHE081 have been  After explaining the basic tools of the app the to create their
) System. researching. videos. These
teacher will instruct the students to create a YouTube videos
storyboard which will assist in planning their explain how to use
movie. the app:
 The students will be encouraged to look through https://www.youtu
their previous work to plan their storyboard. be.com/watch?
 Brittanica ImageQuest will be introduced to the v=lupVle5m-
students as a great place to get images for their iY&list=PLopJygC
06_h8IRy8L43bpZ
videos.
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 After completing their storyboard, the students
will begin creating their videos. Britannica
ImageQuest can
be used by the
Conclusion students to get
 At the end of the lesson students will have the images for their
opportunity to show their video to the class. videos.
https://quest.eb.co
 This will give students the opportunity to assess m/
the work of other students, learn information
about other planets and gain ideas for how they
could have improved their own videos.