Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 4 Time: 1:30-3:00 (90 mins) Students’ Prior Knowledge:
Date: 25/10/19 • Students have previously learnt about:
• The species of turtles in Western Australia.
Learning Area: Science and Design Technologies
• The threats posed upon turtle eggs.
• The importance of turtles to Indigenous
Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum
Australians.
• Biology
- Living things have life cycles (ACSSU072).
Year 2: Living things grow, change and have offspring
- Living things depend on each other and similar to themselves.
the environment to survive (ACSSU073).

Year 3: Living things can be grouped on the basis of

observable features and can be distinguished from
non-living things.

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

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative thinking behaviour Social understanding
competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
histories and cultures
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:

• Recall threats to turtle eggs.
• Identify reasons why we need to protect the turtle species and their eggs.
• Know that nest protectors come in different shapes and sizes and are made from different materials.

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

• Game template for Rob The Nest. • Low academic level students
• Hula-hoops. - Creativity within the project.
• Tennis balls. - Hands-on activity.
• Whistle. - Peer mentoring and collaborative work.
• PowerPoint.
• Design brief handout. • Vision impairments
• A3 Paper for design drawings. - Buddy system in Rob the Nest.
• iPads – Brainstorming tool. - Larger print for design brief.
• iPads.
• Padlet.

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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)

Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
1:30
1. Students will pack away their silent reading books line up in two
straight lines outside. They will then follow the teacher to the oval to
play a game of Rob the Nest.

2. Students will sit in a huddle and the teacher recaps the rules of Rob • Game template.
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the Nest in-front of the designated playing space. The students will • Hula-hoops.
help set up the game (game set-up attached). Apart from the general • Tennis balls.
rules on how to play, students are not allowed to protect their nests • Whistle.
and only one student is allowed to steal eggs at a time.

3. Students are divided up into four teams. Students then have to come
1:35
up with a team name that is related to the threats posed upon turtles.
Team names can include but are not limited to the following: foxes,
feral cats, too much heat, too much cold, lights.

1:40 4. Once team names are sorted, the teacher will send each team to a
corner of the playing field. The students will play two or three rounds
of Rob the Nest.

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):

1:55
5. After a couple of games of Rob the Nest, the teacher will bring the
class in for a class discussion. The teacher will ask the following
questions:
• What happened to all the eggs in the middle?
• What do you think will happen if all the eggs disappear?
• How can we fix the eggs from disappearing?
2:05
6. The teacher will walk students back to class and students will sit at
their desks.

• PowerPoint.
2:05 7. The teacher will play the introductory video from the WWF
researcher.

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2:10 8. The teacher will introduce the design brief: Turtle-y Cool Nest • Design brief
Protectors. The teacher will ask students to read each section of the handout.
design brief aloud. Between each section, the teacher will allow time • PowerPoint.
for questions.
• PowerPoint
2:25 9. The teacher will show examples of turtle nest protectors on the
PowerPoint. The teacher will also explain that a nest protector can do
many things such as providing shade for the eggs, providing
protection for the eggs or blocking the city lights from the eggs. The
teacher also emphasises that the nest protector needs to be made
from recycled materials.

• A3 Paper for
2:35 10. The teacher will split the children into groups of four. The students will design
get the remainder of the lesson to plan their design of their turtle nest drawings.
protector. This session will be brainstorming materials that could be • iPads –
used to make their nest protector and their practicality. Brainstorming
tool.

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

2:50 11. Students complete a Padlet with the following questions:
- What is the importance of protecting turtle eggs? • iPads.
- What are some recyclable materials that you might use to make your • Padlet.
nest protector?

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

2:55 12. Students will “pack and stack” and sit on the mat so the teacher can
debrief the day.

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will these be judged?)
• Recall threats to turtle eggs.
- The choice of team names.
- This will be recorded on the checklist.

• Identify reasons why we need to protect turtle species and their eggs.
- Padlet
- This will be recorded on the checklist.

• List recyclable materials they can use to make turtle nest protectors.
- Padlet.
- This will be recorded on the checklist.

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APPENDIX 1: CHECKLIST

Objective 1: Objective 2: Objective 3: Notes:

Recall threats Identifies Lists recyclable
to turtle eggs. reasons why materials to
we need to make turtle nest
protect turtle protectors.
species and
their eggs.
Audrew

Christian

Daniel

Emily

Gema

Harlan

Harry

Izzy

Julia

Kaitlyn

Mario

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Marley

Morgan

Nick

Oliva

Rory

Sammy

Timm

Tom

KEY Above Satisfactory ⦁⦁ Satisfactory ⦁ Not Achieved

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APPENDIX 2: ROB THE NEST SET UP

Teacher
Team 1

Team 2 Team 3

Team 4

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Divide the class into 4-6 groups and send each group to a hula hoops which will now be
their ‘nest’.

2. The students must line up in their groups and wait for the teacher to blow their whistle.

3. Once the teacher blows their whistle, students in each group take turns to run to the
centre of the circle and collect a ball and take it back to their nest.

4. When there are no more balls in the middle, the group can begin to steal the beanbags
off other teams.

5. The teacher blows their whistle to end the game and the team with the greatest number
of balls win.