LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Class Presenters:
Patriesse Hantzis, Kaytlen Oldfield & Karl van Zwol

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level:
9
Time:
Date: 19/03/15

Students Prior Knowledge:

11:50 - 12:40

Learning Area:
Science
Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum

Brief understanding of Ecosystems and

communities of interdependent organisms and abiotic

Lifecycles
Seasonal Changes

components of the environment; matter and energy flow

Brief knowledge of the effect of global warming

Science Understanding Ecosystems consist of

through these systems (ACSSU176)

on Seasonal Changes

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

Critical and
Literacy
Numeracy
ICT
competence

creative thinking

Ethical
behaviour

Personal and
Social
competence

Intercultural
understanding

Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
histories and cultures
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

Sustainability

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:
Describe the food web of a coral reef.

Explain how global warming effects seasonal changes and in turn causing coral death.

Analyse the effect on the coral reef ecosystem in the event of coral death through global warming.
Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation:
Provision for students at educational risk:
Send email to students to remind them to bring
One High Achieving student to be grouped
selected technological device (charged) to class
with one Low Achieving student for both Group
and to pre sign up to HackPad.com
Activities.
Make sure that the presentation is comprehensible
English as a Second Language Students will
for all students of varying learning abilities and
be provided with a link to both videos to be
styles.
presented prior to the lesson to allow for
preview at own pace. One of presented videos
Organise students into pre-selected groups of 3 for
has dialogue provided.
Main activity.
Make sure projector is in working order.
Prepare Weebly webpage.


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)

Time

Motivation and Introduction:

1 Min

2 Mins

3 Mins

7 Mins

Greet each student at the door, allow them to take their seat of choice within
the classroom.
Review last lesson on Introduction to Ecosystems.
Ask students to Logon to Kidblog and follow the instructed link to the
Teachers Weebly (wechopfrogs.weebly.com) and await instruction.
Engage students in group discussion of 'What their current understanding of
Seasonal Changes and the effect on Populations is?'

Weebly - On the Weebly webpage, ask students to click onto 'Lessons'

Drop down bar and click onto the 'Lesson One' Page.

MindMeister - While Class is awaiting Video Presentation, open

MindMeister to Mind Map created for class.

Video - Teacher Clicks link to Video from Catalyst Program: Coral Winners.
While the video is being presented Teacher is to pause the video and
Question the Class on what was just seen and record the answers onto
MindMeister Mind Map.

Embed - Embed completed class Mind Map into KidBlog for students to
access and print out as a study tool and reflection of lesson.

5 Mins

Resources/Refere
nces
Computing Device
Projector
http://kidblog.org/E
D2632Thurs430/
https://www.mindm
eister.com/5195726
88
http://wechopfrogs.
weebly.com/lesson1.html

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

18
Mins

1. Students will work in groups of three to investigate:

o How coral has changed over the years and what has caused the
change. Students must include what animals and plants have
already been affected by the reducing amount of coral in the ocean.
o What is predicted to happen to coral in the future and why it will
happen.
o How will a decrease in the amount of coral affect other animals and
plants.
o Each question will be allocated to one person in the group, to
ensure they are all doing individual work.

https://hackpad.co
m
https://www.gliffy.co
m/go/html5/launch?
app=1b5094b06042-11e2-bcfd0800200c9a66


Students will write down the important information they find in
Hackpad.
2. Students will go to the website to collaborate the information that was found
during the investigation.
3. The students will create a flow chart of the biology that has been affected.
o Beginning with coral and expanding off of it with what the loss of
coral will do to other animals or plants. Then what the loss of those
animals and plant will do in regards to other living organisms.
o

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

14
Mins

Show video The future of coral reefs from Scootle. 1:05

Students get into groups and create brainstorm, using coggle.it on how
they think we should go about saving the coral reef ecosystems from
collapse.
Discuss group findings with class.
Use a Socrative quiz to briefly test student learning through the lesson.

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

Students are to complete a blog entry on their Kidblog's defining the

meaning of Introduced Species.

http://www.scootle.
edu.au/ec/pin/UQF
NCT?
userid=445083
https://coggle.it/
http://www.socrativ
e.com/

http://kidblog.org/E
D2632Thurs430/

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will these be judged?)

Informal Assessment:
- Intro, Main and Lesson Closure
- Observing Class discussions and Group Work.
Formative Assessment:
- KidBlog entries.