Lesson Plan 1 Primary & Secondary Unit/Topic: Literacy/ Antarctic Explorer Key Learning Area: Sentence Structure Verbal

l Date: 02/098/2013 Year Level: 6

LESSON OUTCOME:
(Key Knowledge and Skills students should achieve in the lesson taken from relevant curriculum documents.) Identify and explain analytical images Understand verbal information in factual & persuasive text. Learn to research data (text, visual and audio) on Antarctic Explorers Construct string of words relevant to subject for oral presentation; Follow instructions; Work with peers.

LESSON STRUCTURE:
Time 10:15 Introduction (Set): Computers: two per literacy group Warm up Spelling game Shot gun with ruler Vocab from: Polar Explorers: Antarctic, explorer, polar, research, coastlines, island, exhaustion, blizzard, navigation, travelled, meteorites, expeditions, abandoned motorised, survived, conditions, magnetism, biology, meteorology, geology, companions, discoveries, frostbite. What is an Explorer? Show class 6 the Antarctic Explorer table worksheet. With explorers: DM, RA, ES & RS (ea group assigned an explorer) Practice run with DM: When, What, Where & other When: 1907 1909 What: first to climb Mt Erbus Where: Mt Erbus, Antarctica Other: He joined Shackletons British-Antarctic Expedition Once ea group obtains 3 facts per question teacher discloses a secret code (YouTube link to view their explorer) Class participates in example of Douglas Mawson Teaching Approaches Class on floor Teacher instructs Spelling Game: two students, winner remains, loser rotates with other students

Class on floor Teacher instructs

Class separates into literacy groups

Time 10:25

Main Content: Ea literacy group to read Polar Explorers, to obtain four facts for ea question When: What: Where: Other

Teaching Approaches Literacy groups 1,2,3 &4

Time 10:35

Main Content (Continued) Once four facts complete, group to obtain their Explorers secret code - YouTube 1. Douglas Mawson- YouTube secret code: inside Mawsons Antarctic expedition newsonabc (5:02mins) 2. Ernest Shackleton -YouTube secret code: Shackleton mjf7419 (02:42mins) 3. Robert Scott - YouTube secret code: Britain remembers Scott of the Antarctic afp (02:09mins) 4. Roald Amundsen - YouTube secret code: AmundsenOmega 3 05:11mins)

Teaching Approaches Literacy groups 1,2,3 &4

10:45a Tidy desks - first break m break

Time 11:30a m

Conclusion: Oral presentation from Polar Explorer questions and factual answers. When: What: Where: Other:

Teaching Approaches Teacher instruct Assign class members to present oral submission Class on floor

Conclude for next subject: Math (Graphs) 11:45

RESOURCES
(Include equipment required for class and/or for teacher preparation) Teacher computer and interactive board Student computers x2 per literacy group Polar Explorer books Polar Explorer work sheets per person

SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS/MATERIALS
Liquids away from electronic equipment. Safe spaces on floor between students and instruction teacher Exit identified

ASSESSMENT
Learn to research data (text, visual and audio) on Antarctic Explorers Construct string of words relevant to subject for oral presentation. Follow instructions Work with peers

REFLECTION Two computers per group or each person? Be mindful of time restraints. Have more faith in class ability to apply with less instruction