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TERM/WEEKS:

2/1

YEAR LEVEL: 7

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Science/Gravity

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

Cross-curriculum priorities:
1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories
and Cultures

WEEK
/
LESS
ON

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
LINKS
Science
Understan
ding

ACSSU1
18

Scien
ce as
a
Huma
n
Endea
vour

Critical and creative

thinking
2.

Ethical Behaviour

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

Personal and social

Competence
3.

Intercultural
Understanding

Sustainability

SPECIFIC
LESSON
OBJECTIVE

ASSESSMENT
(what & how)

TEACHING & LEARNING

EXPERIENCES
(include learner diversity)

ACSIS1
25

Define the term

gravity

Able to define
gravity

Open with a discussion of gravity to

establish the students prior knowledge.

ACSIS1
24

Design an
experiment to
observe the
effects of
gravity

Successful
experiment
designed and
drafted in
BookCreator

Create a mind map for all students to

contribute to with their knowledge of gravity.

KEY
QUESTIONS

RESOURCES

What do
students
know about
gravity?

Mind Map
from Spider
Scribe
http://www.s
piderscribe.n
et/

Science
Inquiry
Skills

Discuss the mind map. Fill in any missing

information.
Ask students to think about how they could
conduct an experiment to show the effect of
gravity.
Split students into groups to work
collaboratively to design and write up an
experiment in BookCreator. The design of
the experiment is to be finished by next
class when the experiments will be

What is
gravity?

Book Creator
How does it
work?
How could
we prove
the effect of
gravity?

conducted.

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TERM/WEEKS:

2/2

YEAR LEVEL: 7

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Science/Gravity

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and
Cultures

WEEK
/
LESS
ON

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
LINKS
Science
Understan
ding

ACSSU1
18

Scien
ce as
a
Huma
n
Ende
avour

Critical and creative

thinking

Ethical Behaviour

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

SPECIFIC
LESSON
OBJECTIVE

ASSESSMENT
(what & how)

Personal and social

Competence

Intercultural
Understanding

Sustainability

TEACHING & LEARNING

EXPERIENCES
(include learner diversity)

KEY
QUESTIONS

RESOURCES

Science
Inquiry
Skills

ACSIS1
25
ACSIS1
30
ACSIS1
31

Students
conduct science
experiments
that they have
designed in
previous lesson
Students to
write up results
of experiment
Students are
able to explain
gravity using
the results of
the experiment

Students to
conduct
experiment.

Briefly reintroduce the topic of gravity.

Students to reform groups and conduct
experiment to measure gravity that they
devised in previous lesson.

Students to
write up
results of
experiment.

Students to film experiment on their iPad

and record their results in iMovie so results
can be analysed, shared and compared with
the whole class.

Students are
able to
explain
gravity using
the results of
the
experiment

Using the scientific method, students are to

write up their results in the template they
have previously created in BookCreator

How did the

experiment
work?

iPad with
iMovie
installed

Were the
results
what they
had
expected?

BookCreator

Were the
results
consistent?
How could
the
experiment
have been
improved?

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TERM/WEEKS:

2/3

YEAR LEVEL: 7

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Science/Gravity

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and
Cultures

WEEK
/
LESS
ON

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
LINKS
Science
Understan
ding

Science
as a
Human
Endeav
our

ACSSU1
18

ACSH
E223
ACSH
E119

Critical and creative

thinking

Ethical Behaviour

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

Personal and social

Competence

Intercultural
Understanding

Sustainability

SPECIFIC
LESSON
OBJECTIVE

ASSESSMENT
(what & how)

TEACHING & LEARNING

EXPERIENCES
(include learner diversity)

Describe
Galileos
experiments
with gravity

Review Word
Cloud to
check
students able
to describe
both Galileos
and Newtons
experiments
with gravity
and that they
are able to
state
Newtons Law
of Gravity.

Show video Who discovered Gravity from

splash media.

Review Mind
Map to see
ensure
students
research and
understanding

Get the students to use results to calculate

their own weight on each of the planets ie:

KEY
QUESTIONS

RESOURCES

What were
Galileos
experiments
with gravity?

Video from
http://splash.
abc.net.au/m
edia/-/m/304
47

Science
Inquiry
Skills

ACSIS12
4

Describe how
Newton built
on Galileos
experiments
State
Newtons Law
of Gravity
How does
gravity apply
to objects
outside of
Earth
What is the

As a class create a Word Cloud on the

subject of gravity to show what students
have taken away from the video
Class discussion on how they think gravity
would apply to objects outside of Earth
In groups use the internet to research one
planet per group and the force of gravity on
that planet. All students to put their results
into a mind map so the class can view
everyone results.

Moon x 0.17
Mercury x 0.38
Venus x 0.86
Mars x 0.38

How did
Newton
arrive at his
theory of
gravity?
How would
gravity affect
objects
outside of
Earth? Why?
What is the
force of
gravity on
other
planets?

Wordle
http://www.w
ordle.net/
Mind Map
from
SpiderScribe
http://www.s
piderscribe.n
et/

force of
gravity on
other planets.

on gravity is
accurate

Jupiter x 2.87
Saturn x 1.32
Uranus x 0.93
Neptune x 1.23

What would
you weigh on
other
planets?

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TERM/WEEKS:

2/4

YEAR LEVEL: 7

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Science/Gravity

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and
Cultures

WEEK
/
LESS
ON

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
LINKS
Science
Underst
anding

ACSSU
118

Science
as a
Human
Endeavo
ur

SPECIFIC
LESSON
OBJECTIVE

Critical and creative

thinking

Ethical Behaviour

Asia and Australias engagement with Asia

ASSESSMENT
(what & how)

Personal and social

Competence

Intercultural
Understanding

Sustainability

TEACHING & LEARNING

EXPERIENCES
(include learner diversity)

KEY
QUESTIONS

RESOURCES

Science
Inquiry
Skills

Students to
know how
gravity keeps
planets in orbit
around the sun
Students to be
able to
demonstrate
that they
understand the
concepts of
gravity

Students are
able to
explain how
gravity keeps
planets in
orbit around
the sun
Students to
complete an
online quiz on
gravity

Start the lesson by getting the students to

have a look at Gravity and the Solar System

What is
gravity?

Class discussion on activity. Fill in the blanks

or clarify and misunderstandings with the
concepts presented.

What is the
relationship
between
mass and
gravity?

As this is the final lesson on gravity to test

the students knowledge of the area a short
quiz has been set up online. Students to
complete quiz.
Brief introduction of next topic to prepare
students for next lesson.

What is the
relationship
between
mass and
weight?
What is the
relationship
between
weight and
gravity?

Gravity and
the Solar
System
http://lrrpubli
c.cli.det.nsw.
edu.au/lrrSec
ure/Sites/We
b/skoool/phy
s/step/gravit
y_solar_syste
m/index.html
Online quiz
using
http://quizsta
r.4teachers.o
rg/