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TERM/WEEKS: Term2 Week5 YEAR LEVEL: 4 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Humanities and Social 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 Cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

Notes about device access in the classroom: Ensuring the number of iPad is enough for one each within the classroom.
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LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

The Earth Lesson intro

Lesson 1) Research the - Students will get into assorted groups of 4 with half
environment Students will input QR code scanner on
One sustains all life climates and information on a of the group assigned to research the continent of iPad camera
class Google accesses –
Week
vegetation of the Afric and the other half for Europe
Main continents Africa document that they - Students are to take notes on the video describing https://www.youtu
4 characteristics and Europe using have learnt through vegetation and climate on a notepad or iPad notes be.com/watch?v=ltc
(climate, the links to 7r8jzosU for Africa
45min vegetation,
QR code
continent
section alone
scanners.
land forms and 2) Upload an entry characteristics of Lesson Body https://www.youtu
animals) of the Africa and Europe - Students return to their groups of 4 be.com/watch?v=H
into a Google
continents of - Information collected on climate and vegetation will YjsRjat5vQ for
document of
Africa and Teacher can also be input into a blank continent map with each group Europe
their findings of
Europe and assess when focusing on a different section of that continent
climate and
location to students present - Students work on this task for 20 minutes, using
vegetation
Australia section of continent coloured pencils to reflect the unique weather of Google doc
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of the work - Students are to cut out their area of the continent com/document/d/1
and show it to the class, discussing why it is zSOndopq5S-
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presented that way
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Lesson Closure 8abuzD4Q/edit
- Students close applications and shut down iPad,
with the teacher checking all information has been
put in the Google document on a projector screen
WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

The Earth
environment 1) Create a stop Teacher will walk Intro
Lesson sustains all life motion film of around class and - Teacher brings up the Google Doc from last lesson
ensure students are to rejog the memory of what was covered last Stop motion filming
2
native animals to
Main the continents on task with their lesson application on the
Week characteristics Africa and Europe iPads. - Students are questioned to what other features a iPad
(climate,
5 during the continent might have other than its climate and
vegetation, seasons of that Students will send vegetation, prompt students to lean towards
45min land forms and continent their finished stop animals
animals) of the motion film link to
continents of the Google Doc for Body Projector
Africa and teacher to preview - Students, in the same group of 4 as the last lesson,
Europe and gather provided materials from the front of class
location to from boxes that is relevant to their continent, Picture cut outs of
Australia information gathered last lesson environments and
ACHASSK087 - Based on the climate and vegetation students animals
research animals that thrive in those conditions
- Students are then required to make a stop motion
film of the native animal across the different
seasons that continent experiences

Closure
- Students input data gathered about animals for both
continents into the google doc and the teacher bring
it up at the end of the lesson on the projector, so
students can see all information gathered so far
WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

The Earth
environment 1) Using the online Teacher walks Intro Online Globe found
Lesson sustains all life globe to identify around room taking - Teacher touches on the climate animals and at
capital cities of anecdotal notes of vegetation of the continents covered then http://earth3dmap.
Three Main students partaking in generalise them as a whole to introduce new topic com/
major countries
Week characteristics of Europe and the activity. - Ask students if anyone has been to Africa and/or
(climate,
5 Africa Europe, elaborate with introducing the way to reach
vegetation, 2) Investigate the Students outline the these countries is through air travel Google doc
45min land forms and Great Circle discoveries on a map https://docs.google.
animals) of the routes of print out from the Body com/document/d/1
continents of globe - Students get back into the groups as 4 that they zSOndopq5S-
aeroplane travel
Africa and were in last lesson XS8UtUMUxXZ0g9B
on the globe
Europe and At the end of the - Students are to open the interactive globe on their AMRc1tnD-
location to lesson students will iPads and locate Australia, zooming in and out until 8abuzD4Q/edit
Australia input information they locate where about they are in Australia
ACHASSK087 gathered across the - After locating themselves, students are required to
lesson. find the direction that their continent is from Echalk globes
Australia https://www.echalk.
- Using the different types of globes on Echalk co.uk/Science/physi
cs/solarSystem/Inter
students are to research the routes of aeroplane
activeEarth/interacti
travel and map a course to their continent.
veEarth.html
Closure
- The class come to the mat after putting iPad away to
conclude the third lesson Globe blank print off
- Teacher displays the completed Google doc on both
continents climate, vegetation, animals, land
features and air routes