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LESSON ORGANISATION (based on Progress Maps & Outcomes and Standards Framework)

 * **Year Level: 3 Time **: 1.30 **Date**:01/02/2010


 * Learning Area **: Science || **Students’ Prior Knowledge **:

· Students have completed lessons on the water cycle (read books, drawn diagrams and completed a word wall) · Students are aware of science groups and roles within groups · Students have completed activities on wind, temperature and clouds · <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Students can use digital cameras <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Students can navigate around wikispaces || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Lesson Topic **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: Weather: Rain || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Circle Value/s: 1   2 3  4 5 Indicate Value/s sub-points: 1.1, 3.3 ** ||
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Overarching Learning Outcomes (circle): 1  2  3  4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13    ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Learning Area Outcome(s): Science: Earth and Beyond **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Level: 2 **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> **The student:** Understands how some changes in the observable environment, including the sky, influence life.<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Provision for Learner Diversity/Educational Risk **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Adult helper to watch over each group and help with reading of the story/ experiment. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Science groups are Multileveled <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Sean’s group to have larger object to assist in fine motor coordination. || Teacher to make up science pack prior to lesson with <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">jar with a metal lid <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> 1 cup of water <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> a hammer <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> a nail <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ice cubes <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> salt <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">spoon
 * Aspect/Cluster:** EB 2
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Descriptive Summary of Aspect/Cluster( ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">point form): **
 * ^  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Teacher’s Prior Preparation/Organisation **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">:

Organise adult helpers (parents/ Teacher assistant and brief them on the lesson.  Test experiment to ensure it works. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  || //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">As a result of this lesson, students will be able to: // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of __this__ lesson, **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">in point form)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Demonstrates understanding that rain is part of the water cycle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Predict weather patterns
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Defines what rain is
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">LESSON EVALUATION ** //(to be completed **AFTER** the lesson)//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Assessment of Lesson Outcomes and Suggestions for Improvement **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">[**OFFICIAL USE ONLY**] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor: ||

LESSON PROGRESSION (attach worksheets, examples, marking key, etc, as relevant) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">
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10 mins || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Motivation and Introduction: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

Teacher instructs students to get into science groups and move to the mat. Teacher explains that today they are going to be learning about rain. Ask students to think back to lesson about clouds, what do they know about clouds and rain? Teacher to write ideas on board.

Teacher explains that in their groups they will be reading a story about the water cycle and rain, and that their adult helper will help them read any of the tricky words.

Instruct students to move to computers and click on the rain link on the wiki. In groups students read through Once I was a Water Drop on the computer Students discuss the different ways that the water droplet changed in the story.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Lesson Steps **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> (Lesson content, structure & strategies) **Key Questions & Assessment**:

Students take part in the ‘Make it Rain’ experiment. In science groups students collect their science materials and with the help of an adult complete the activity.

Students come back to the mat and recall what happened on the experiment? teacher asks? Did it relate to the story that we read before the experiment? How did it relate? Teacher writes information on the board.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Students go back to their computers in science group and complete the last section. This involves the students going outside, taking photos and predicting whether it will rain today or not? Students record their results on the rain rating scale and place in their weather folders. If there is time whole class discuss their predictions/ ratings and talk about why they rated it that way. || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Resources: ** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Lesson Closure: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Align these with the segment where they will be introduced. **

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 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">Computers **

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 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">Science Packs **

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;"> ** pencils ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">Digital Cameras **
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 6pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; msobidifontsize: 10.0pt;">Rain rating activity sheets **