SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON PLAN 1:

Name: Ellen & Timothy

Topic: Snow Safety
Lesson No: 1 ( Single)

Subject: Outdoor Adventures

School: St Mary of the Angels Secondary College
Duration: 50 Minutes

Date:
Year level: 9

Learning Purpose/Learning Intention/Rationale:

 The purpose of this lesson is for students to explore the strategies to enhance
health, safety and wellbeing. This is in relation to snow safety.

Victorian Curriculum- F-10 or VCE focus (if VCE applicable)

Health and Physical Education:

Personal, Social and Community Health

Contributing to healthy and active communities:

VCHPEP130: Plan and use strategies and resources to enhance the health, safety and
wellbeing of their communities

Victorian Curriculum (F-10) VCE Study Designs

Success Criteria / Learning outcomes:

 Develop and understanding about the Alpine Responsibility Code
 Explain principles of snow safety
 Designed a snow safety poster

Assessment:
Pre Assessment: Snow Safety Poster (Assessment of Learning): To gain an
understanding of students learning abilities.
Procedure:

Time for Teacher activities: Learner activities:

each
step

Engagement: Engagement:

10 Task 1: Brainstorm Task 1: Brainstorm

minutes Students will be asked to brainstorm
10 ‘Snow Safety’ and write down words or This will engage students in the
minutes phrases that relates to the snow. They next 5 weeks of learning about a
are to write the answers in their books. Snow environment, it will help
the teacher gain and idea about
what the students know and
don’t know.
Task 2: Snow Safe Website
5 Task 2: Snow Safe Website
Ask students to explore the snow sfe
minutes This will create a class discussion
website. Students will be asked to jot
about topics they found on the
down a few things they notice and
snow safe website. It will provide
what it contains. Students will then be
all students with the same
given the time to ask questions in
knowledge.
regards to the snow safe website.

Procedural steps:
20
minutes Task 3: Alpine Responsibility Code
Video:
Play the ‘Alpine Responsibility Code’
video Once students have watched the
video ask if they have an questions in
relation to aspects of the code.
Task 4: ‘Alpine responsibility Code’
Poster:
5
Students will be asked to design a
minutes
Alpine Responsibility Code poster,
students must use photos and provide
facts relevant to the content of the
poster. Ensure they cover all 10 points
of the code on their posters.
Procedural steps:
Task 3: Alpine Responsibility Code
Video:
By playing the video it caters for
all students learning needs. The
video will inform students about
what is safe and what the code
refers to.
Task 4: ‘Alpine Responsibility
Code’ Poster:
The students will be asked to
design a poster, this will help the
teacher gauge what they do and
don't know and how their literacy
skills are.

Conclusion:
Task 5: Summation and reinforcement:
Summation and reiteration of content
learnt in the class, identify the learning Conclusion:
outcome that has just been achieved Task 5: Summation and
and praise students on their work. reinforcement:
Teacher’s resources:
 Pens
 White board markers
 Laptop
 Student Activity sheets
Catering for inclusion: The use of videos when teaching snow safety to cater for all
learning abilities. Enable students with learning disabilities to make the poster on
their laptops.
Students’ resources:
 Pens
 Laptop
 Work book
 Student Activity sheet

Extension activities: Students will not have any extension activities for today’s
lesson as they will continue working on their snow safety posters.
Learning space set-up: The classroom will be set up in a traditional way. The
students will be facing the smart-board/ White board, as I will be getting the snow
safe website up on the smartboard.