Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 2/3 Time: 9:20-10:20am Students’ Prior Knowledge:
Date:20th June - Students have had a lesson on
modelling how to research and
Learning Area: Humanities and Social write a description.
Sciences
Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum
Geography -
The location of Australian states,
territories, capital cities and major
regional centres of Western Australia and
the location and identifying attributes of
Australia's major natural features (e.g.
rivers, deserts, rainforests, the Great
Dividing Range, the Great Barrier Reef)
(ACHASSK066).

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

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative behaviour Social understanding
thinking competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Asia and Australia’s engagement Sustainability

Islander histories and cultures with Asia
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:

 Write a description paragraph on a landmark in Australia from their researched
information.

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

- Get chrome books. risk:
- Have example description slides ready.
- Have 4 iPads ready.
- Given feedback to students on their
research for them to refer back to.

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

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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)
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the
- Introduce what part of the project we are up to segment where they
today  writing the description about their will be introduced.
landmark.
- Revise how to write a description  by showing
them the highlighted examples and their
components.
- Explain that some students need to quickly finish
off researching and explain that you have given
them feedback and some question prompts to help
them.
- Ask them to try to tick off the questions I have
written on the sticky notes and once they have
added information, come and see me at the
question table, to see if they can go onto
writing their description.
- Tell the rest of the students that they get to
start writing their descriptions on the iPad and
that you have underlined and ticked the important
information in their research that they should
include in their description.
- Tell students that you are going to put please
stop by cards out, so they can just turn them if
they need help.
- Let the researching students go first by handing
their worksheets out and asking one student from
the pair to get an iPad.
- Let the rest of the students go and log on, get
into google classroom and start their description
slides.

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies &

Key Questions):

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 - Walk around the room giving guidance to students
and checking wether the researching students have
enough information to stat writing.
- After 35 minutes get students to sit on the mat.

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

- Ask students for a mini show of thumbs to see how

they felt their descriptions were.
- Let them know what they will be working on next.

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next

lesson?)

- Let students go to recess.

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will

these be judged?)
- Check students work on google slides and assess
whether they have completed a description.
- Record whether they have completed it in a
checklist.
- Provide feedback to their work by posting a
comment.