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TERM/WEEKS: Term 4, Week YEAR LEVEL: Year 1 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: HASS

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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

Early Years Learning Framework Outcomes :

Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

Outcome 4: Children are involved and confident learners

Notes about device access in the classroom: In this document, I have assumed that all students have access to their own device and that they have already had previous
experience using it throughout the year. Being that these lessons would take place in Term 4, the children would be experience using the ICT tools required in the lesson.
WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT
LESSON Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES and other
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Week 2, How weather (e. By the end of this lesson Objective 1- To Introduction
Lesson g. rainfall, students will be able to… assess this  To introduce the lesson topic the teacher would read The Tiny Seed By Eric
1 temperature, objective I will the book “The Tiny Seed” By Eric Carle Carle
sunshine, wind) Objective 1 walk around the  This book would have already been read and used for
and seasons vary Children can construct a classroom while
between places, a different purpose.
brainstorm using the ICT tool the children are
and the terms Word Salad Lite to display working and use  In this reading the focus will be on weather and
used to describe knowledge of weather (E.g. informal seasons shown throughout the book
them Children names weather assessment  Before the reading the teacher would tell the students
(ACHASSK032)
conditions) strategies such as that the book is being read to look at the different
observing. I seasons and the weather
Objective 2 would expect  During the reading the teacher would point out
Children create a Pic Collage children to have
specific parts that relate to the weather and seasons
added no less than
Objective 3 five words to their  After the reading discuss seasons and weather with
Children can screenshot work Word Salad. input from the children.
and upload it to book creator  The discussion would include;
 Defining what weather is
Objective 2- To “The weather is the different day to day and
assess this it is what we see when we go outside or look
objective I will
out the window.”
review the work
of the students. I  What is the weather like in Australia?
would expect  What is the difference between seasons and the
students to have a weather
minimum of four “The seasons are patterns in the weather. We
picture see rain in winter and sunshine in summer.”
representing the YouTube Clip
 How do we use seasons to classify the weather?
seasons. I would https://www.youtube.c
review this work  What weather do we expect in each season? om/watch?v=7Li59FFi
after the lesson  To consolidate what the class had just discussed, the lYQ
was completed. teacher would show a video of weather
 Ask children the types of weather seen in the clip
Objective 3- This Body
objective is met  In the body of the lesson the children will work
when students through two activities
take a screenshot
of their work and Activity 1: Class Set of iPads-
import it to their  This activity involves the students to make a Word One per child
Book Creator. Salad on the types of weather and weather conditions Word Salad Lite app
they know
 Teacher will have placed different words from the
discussion of the different types of weather on the
board or around the space in which the group will be
working
 Student use the words associated with the weather
such as; sunny, cloudy, rainy, stormy.
 Children input these words into the ICT tool Word
Salad Lite to generate a brainstorm like document
 Once the children have finished creating their Word
Salad the children are required to screen shot their
work by pressing the home and on/off button at the
same time or export into their camera roll.

Activity 2:
 Using Pic Collage on the iPad children can make a
collage and make a summary of the season
 To create the collage, students will use picture as
PicCollage app
well as titles
 Words that the students will likely need to use (e.g
Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn) will be
displayed for the students to use as an aid.
 Children can use the searching tool within in Pic
Collage to find images that represent each of the
seasons
 Once children have finished their Pic Collage they
will be required to screen shot their work
Conclusion
 Call children to finish their work and return to the
tables they normally work, and wait for further
instruction
 Once all children are seated, children open the app
Book Creator
 All together children are to create a new project, the
first page will be a cover page which the teacher will
model on the whiteboard. Book Creator app
 After creating the first page, children are to upload
Projector and iPad for
the Word Salad and Pic Collage into the book creator teacher
on separate pages
 While children are working on adding to their book,
the teacher is to walk around the classroom making
sure the children are on task
 After they are finished the children are to pack away
the iPads.
 While putting away the iPads in the case, teacher to
write down the child’s name and the device number
they were using in that lesson so that in the
following lessons children can go back and the use
iPad with their work already on it.
WEEK/ West SPECIFIC LESSON TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT
LESSO Australian OBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES and other
N Curriculum (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)
LINKS

Week 2, How weather (e. By the end of this lesson Objective 1 and 2 Introduction
Lesson g. rainfall, students will be able to… To assess these  Children revise what was learnt in the previous
2 temperature, objectives, I lesson about the weather and the way in which the
sunshine, wind) Objective 1 would use formal weather conditions differ from season to season
and seasons vary Using the book creator app assessment
between places,  In lesson children will be learning about the climate
describe weather commonly strategies by
and the terms experienced in Western marking the pages and weather in different countries than their own
used to describe Australia in the Book  Teacher to discuss how the weather is different to the
them Creator. I would climate and the weather
(ACHASSK032)
Objective 2 mark with a rubric - Weather is what can be seen when looking
Using the book creator app with the items that out the window.
describe weather commonly were supposed to - Teacher can ask students to describe the
experienced in a place different be included in the
weather of that particular day.
to their own Book Creator
pages.
Body
Class set of iPads- One
 Children will use Quick Response Codes (QR codes)
Objective 3 Objective 3: To per student
Children can successfully use assess this which the teacher has made in order to source
QR codes objective I would information about different countries and their
use observation weather QR codes
strategies and an  The QR codes will direct the students to YouTube QR code reader app
observation videos as well as child-friendly websites that children
checklist. I would can use in order to gain information about the
look for the
weather in different countries
children using the
QR code reader  As the teacher I would also create child friendly clips
app and holing the and add them to YouTube and attach them to QR
camera still for the codes for the students to watch
code to be read as  Using the information they have gained children will
well as looking to add to their book in Book Creator
make sure the  Teacher will display specific questions that will need
code is in the
to be answered in the book creator, for example;
frame.
- Name of the Country/State
 - Most common weather condition. Words that
they will need to explain the weather will be
written up on the word wall as well as
pictures that represent the weather which
children can take photos of.
- Children can also draw pictures within the
app to represent the weather conditions
experienced in that particular place.
 Children will have to look at the weather in a
minimum of two countries, one of which being
Western Australia
- Other countries would be; Africa, England,
Antarctica as well as the different states in
Australia
 Children will add a new page to their Book Creator
Book Creator
for the information on the weather in the different
countries.

Conclusion
 In a mat session children will discuss the weather
conditions in different places to their own
 Students can be asked to compare the weather of
Western Australia to the weather of a different place
for example Antarctica and then name the main
difference
 Ask students what they found interesting
 If children feel comfortable they can come up and
Projector
show their book creator to the class by displaying it
on the projector
WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Week 2, How weather (e. By the end of this lesson Objective 1 Introduction
Lesson 3 g. rainfall, students will be able to… To assess this  Teacher to come into the classroom wearing Silly clothing (not
temperature, objective, I would something that is not appropriate to the weather (e.g. weather appropriate
sunshine, wind) Objective 1 look at the a scarf if it is hot weather) for the day)
and seasons vary Identify weather appropriate children’s books  Teacher waits until students ask a question or make
between places, clothing made in the Book a statement about the clothes being worn
and the terms Creator app. I  Ask students why they piece of clothing is not Show clip from
used to describe Objective 2 would look at the http://www.scholastic.ca/
appropriate to wear in the weather of that particular
them Children capture a photo using picture that the education/nlscience/grad
(ACHASSK032) day and ask students for ideas of more appropriate
the camera app on the iPad children took of e1/unit1_dailyseasonalch
clothing
each other in the anges/gr1_unit1-
 Show children the clip about weather dailyseasonalchanges_vi
Objective 3 clothing dress-ups  Discuss why it is important to dress in appropriately deo.html
Children create a book in the and make sure
Book Creator app to represent that children are Body Class set of iPads- One
the weather which uses a variety dressed The following activity will be one of three that the children per child
of tools such as the drawing and appropriately for will rotate between during the lesson
importing tool the weather  Children will be in groups of roughly eight children Weather condition
condition  In the groups of eight the children will work in pairs cards and picture
specified  This activity is like charades where the students draw prompts
Objective 2 out a weather condition card with a picture of a
specific weather condition and the word that matches Dress ups (Scarves,
To assess this
it. goggles, jackets, light
objective, I would
jumpers, sunglasses,
use observations - E.g. The card which shows rain would say
hat, raincoat ect)
and a checklist to rainy.
look at student  Children must then dress up in the clothing provided
while they take a
which would be suitable for that specific weather
photo. I would
look for students condition
holing the camera - E.g. If the child got the rainy card, they
still with their would be required to put on a raincoat or
Camera app
fingers and the hold an umbrella
case not
obstructing the
 camera, for the  The person not dressed up has to then take a photo of
children to make the child in the clothing so that it can later be
sure that uploaded to the book creator
everything that
 After the photo has been take the student who is not
they want is in the
frame and lastly, dressed up must guess what weather the other student
not moving too is dressed up for
soon after taking  Children will repeat this game until each student has
the photo had at least two turns or the time for that activity runs
resulting in it out Book Creator app
turning out blurry

Objective 3 Conclusion
Although this  Add to the new page in Book Creator
objective is on- - The title that the teacher wants the children
going over the to copy own for their book will be on the
three lessons, the screen
books made by - If I was dressing for (weather condition) I
each student are would wear...
marked at the end  Children will be instructed to add the photos taken in Projector
of the lessons. that lesson to their book in book creator
This would be - If children have time they can label what they
formally assessed are wearing and then add a little description
with the students as to why they decided to wear what they did
being required to  Once children are finished adding to their book
use a range of
creator they would come sit on the mat
tools (at least 3)
 Children will get time to display their work to the class
such as the
writing tool,
drawing tool and
importing tool.

References

Carle, Eric. (1995). The Tiny Seed. Great Britain: Hamish Hamilton

School Curriculum and Standards Authority. (2014). Year one curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences (ACHASSK032). Retrieved from
https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/curriculum-browser/humanities-and-social-sciences