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TERM/WEEKS: T2. W1 YEAR LEVEL: Four LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: HASS – Geography

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 
WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and other
LESSON Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Lesson 2. The natural Using Popplet, the students will -Formative: Intro:
resources (e.g.
water, timber, demonstrate their prior knowledge by Document students’ -Introduce the topic for the lesson – Natural resources and their Ipad
Week 1. minerals) provided creating a brainstorm about natural prior knowledge contribution to sustainability.
by the environment
resources in sustainable gardening and about natural -Inform students of the objectives for the lesson. Popplet.
and different views
on how they can be the effects they have on the resources helping to -Divide students into pairs.
used sustainably environment. create sustainable
ACHASSK090
farming. Body: Behind the news video
Students will identify the impact -Play BTN video on natural resources helping sustainable farming to clip:
sustainability has on farming and -Diagnostic: engage students in topic. http://www.abc.net.au/bt
vegetation. View BookCreator -Provide each pair with an Ipad. n/classroom/food-
stories to see what -Ask students to conduct a think-and-share using the tool Popplet. bowl/10537258
Students will create a Book creator students have learnt. -Show students an example of a finished Popplet brainstorm.
and document all knowledge of the -Inform them that their brain should include what they already know Book creator.
effects of sustainable natural about natural resources and sustainability.
resources in the environment. *Allow students to finish brainstorm*
-Instruct Students to now create a BookCreator project including facts
they have learnt from BTN video and from prior knowledge Popplet
brainstorm. Ensure them that this Bookcreator project will be a
collection of work on this subject throughout the term.

Conc:
-Ask a few students to present their prior knowledge Popplet
brainstorms to the rest of the class.
-Print off Popplets and place around room for students to refer to.
-Ask students to send BookCreator projects to teacher for
assessment.