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YearLevel:

LearningArea/Topic::

GeneralCapabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

CriticalandCreativeThinking

Ethical
Behaviour

PersonalandSocial
Competence

InterculturalUnderstanding

Crosscurriculumpriorities:
AboriginalandTorresStraitIslanderhistoriesand
AsiaandAustraliasengagementwithAsia
Sustainability
Cultures
Week
Knowledge&
Concepts&
/
Understandin
SpecificLesson
Skills
Teaching&LearningExperiences(includeFocus/Keyquestions)
Lesso
g
Objectives
n
Introduction:
Week Identify and
Identify where
TPS- Discuss
describe
the
Where does our food come from? TPS with the
we get some of
and analyse the
6
biomes
in
our
food
from
in
distribution
of
person next to you on where you might get your food
Lesso
Australia
&
Australia
Australian home
from
n3
overseas that Evaluate the
food.
Insert your answers onto your brainstorm.
produce
Skill builder:
importance of
Body:
some of the
climate for food
Note taking
Students will download the QR scanner app on their
foods and
production.
Creating a mind
phones, scan the barcodes on the weebly, which will
plant
map to represent
take them to a type of food, sourced to its origins.
materials
information.
They must take notes from the information provided
people
and insert it into their brainstorm.
consume.
Read pages (62-63) on the importance of climate &
take notes insert into mind map.
Extension activity: If finished, students must then pick
from one of the foods provided and source it back to
its origins via researching.
Conclusion

Resourcesan
Assessment

(type&weightin

http://www.qrs
f.com

Mind map
website:
www.spidersc
e.com

Oxford Yr8
textbook S&E
(pg.62-63).

Week
6
Lesso
n4

Identify and
describe the
biomes in
Australia &
overseas that
produce
some of the
foods and
plant
materials
people
consume.

Identifying and
describing the
processes of
dairy farming,
its heritage and
its importance
for Australia.
Understanding
the importance
of locally grown
produce.

Introduction:
Skill builder:
Introduce dairy farming as the topic.
Note taking &
question
Get students to work through the dairy farming
answering based
interactive game.
on sources of
Body:
information.
Students will follow the dairy farming link to which
Researching for
they will do some reading on the history of dairy
quality
farming in Australia.
information and
Students will be given a handout in which they have a
sources.
range of questions to answer based on the
Create a poster
websites/sources they are given.
to display
Students will then have to create a poster on a dairy
information and
product they have researched and provide information
creative skills.
on that product.
Conclusion:
Posters are to finish for homework if not finished in
class.
Posters are due the following week to hand in.

Interactive
game:
http://www.d
yfarmingtoda
org/_layouts
FT/interactiv
ame/interact
game/game.h
ml

Dairy farming
link:
http://www.d
yaustralia.co
au/Industryinformation/A
out-theindustry.asp