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Outdoor & Enviro

Studies Lesson Plan

Hannah Cole
Friday 24/04/2015
Start: 10.08am Finish: 11.06am

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Year 10/11
Outdoor & Environmental Studies
Eliza Randell
S1

Lesson Context
Class Background:

There are 21 students in this class, 8 males and 13 females. They did a 3-day walk at Wilsons Prom in first term. They
are still not mixing very well but are tending to remain in already established friendship groups. The commitment and
achievement levels in the class vary greatly (from some who have not been passing, to others who are doing very well).
The class just completed working through topic 1.2.1 Experiencing and responding to outdoor environments, and are
currently working on topic 1.2.2 Knowing outdoor environments.

Curriculum Links:

VCE Outdoor and Environmental Studies, Unit 1 Exploring Outdoor Experiences, Area of Study 2 Experiencing
Outdoor Environments, Key Knowledge 2, Knowing outdoor environments.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this lesson students should:

Be able to articulate that while experience can give people knowledge, that reflection is the often forgotten
component of this equation.
Be able to understand that natural environments can be seen, understood and valued from different perspectives.

Equipment &
Resources:

Your Personal Goals:

Paper signs
Sticky tape
Data projector & connection leads
Class roll

During this lesson I would like to focus my learning on:

Strategies and techniques to maximise student engagement and therefore their learning.

Back-up Plan:

If there are any issues, the students can instead work on a reflective piece of writing about their 3-day bushwalk at
Wilsons Prom. (Questions such as: What part of Wilsons Prom did you walk through? Did you feel well prepared
why or why not? What was the weather like? What did you do apart from walk? What was the best thing you
remember? What was the hardest challenge you went through? What do you think needs to be changed for next
years trip? What shouldnt be changed for next year? What did you learn about yourself? Others? Nature?).
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2015 Lesson Plan Yr 11 OES

Lesson Plan
Time / Duration

What I will be doing

What the students will be doing

Key Questions

10.08 4 mins

Settling class & checking class

roll.

Responding and preparing for

lesson.

N/A

10.12 5 mins

Facilitating a class brainstorm

and discussion about the ways
Chuck (central protagonist in
Castaway film) came to know
his environment.

Sharing their notes and individual

perspectives.

Resources
Class roll

What experiences helped Chuck

know his environment?

Whiteboard

Chuck would have been more

successful in his survival strategies
more quickly if he had learned about
the islands ecology and natural
history before being stranded.
Our understanding of the natural
environment will be greater if we
experience it than if we read about
it.
When a person has an experience
they gain knowledge.

Paper signs

Making any extra notes that they

would like to.

Writing ideas & opinions on the board,

Highlighting connections between
ideas.

10.17 8 mins

Asking students to respond to

the following statements by
standing on a line from strongly
agree to strongly disagree.
Wait to see what students think about
the third statement (experience =
knowledge) and if there is any mention
of the role of reflection. If not, raise this
issue as a central idea.

10.25 2 mins

Explaining that in groups of 4

people, each person needs to
research a different topic:

Positioning themselves somewhere

on the agree-disagree continuum
according to their opinion.
Presenting their opinions and
justification for why they believe what
they believe.

Listening.

N/A

(strongly agree &

strongly disagree)

Sticky tape

N/A

Ways of knowing the natural

environment from ecological, economic,
social and historical perspectives.

10.27 15 mins

Walking around the class.

Assisting students as they research
their perspective.

Researching their different

perspective.

What does it mean to understand

the natural environment from your
perspective?
Which people in society think this
perspective is important? And why
do they think it is important?
Can you think of an example of how

iPads
Textbooks

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Wilsons Prom can be viewed from

your perspective?

10.42 6 mins

Walking around the class.

Listening to the different ideas.

Sharing their findings with the rest of

the people in their group.

N/A

10.48 10 mins

Asking the class to come and

write their ideas on the board in
a table.

Writing their ideas on the board, and

copying down other peoples notes
form the whiteboard.

N/A

10.58 6 mins

Circling the really central ideas

and explaining why.

Noting down which ideas are really

central.

N/A

11.04 2 min

Re-cap the key ideas:

Responding as necessary.

N/A

FINISH @ 11.06

The centrality of reflection (in learning

from experience),
How outdoor places can be known
through different perspectives.

N/A

Whiteboard

N/A
Data projector
Connection leads

Checking that all students

have a place to visit for their
homework assignment.
Showing students the marking
guide which will be online too.

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2015 Lesson Plan Yr 11 OES