Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 8 Time: 9-950 Date: 16/3/2017 Students Prior Knowledge:
- cell structure and function organelles perform
Learning Area: - mitosis
biology - chromosomes and DNA
- mitosis
- meiosis basic steps and what happens

Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum

Cells are the basic units of living things;

they have specialised structures and
functions (ACSSU149)
General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
creative thinking behaviour Social understanding
yes no competence
yes yes yes competence no
yes
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australias engagement with Asia Sustainability
histories and cultures
Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)
Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of this lesson, in point form beginning with an action verb)

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:

define meiosis
explain how the process of meiosis occurs
how are the processes of mitosis and meiosis different?
Explain the characteristics of each stage of meiosis

Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational risk:

- make sure class set of ipads is available with - easily distracted child sat next to studios
explain everything downloaded on it student who difficult to distract
- all students have login for app - vision impaired students paired with non vision
impaired- delegated speaking role

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:
could the students explain meiosis in enough detail? (did they understand meiosis? Or just regurgitated
information the researched?
did I give enough time for them to finish the explain everything project with enough detail? ( could they use
the app competently? Or was it too difficult?)

was the lesson enjoyable?

Could they effectively work in pairs?

Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:

Did I give every student a chance for input and to do their best? (eg. Not picking the same students to answer
questions)
Did I help the students that needed it and extend the ones who found it easy? (eg. More/ different examples
of the same topic, having more work to do once finished)
Was I clear in my instructions and clarified properly if there were any problems (eg. Were there many
students asking what to do/ how to do it)
Did I cater for all the students different learning styles in someway? (eg. Use of audio, visual, written, social,
ICT examples)
Did it seem like children enjoyed the topic/ lesson? (was there positive energy in the classroom? Were
students engaged and happy?)

[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:

LESSON DELIVERY (attach worksheets, examples, marking key, etc, as relevant)

Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Xcm0t-kEM
9-910 Revision of the stages meiosis
and what each entails,
Video to act as introduction to
meiosis

9:10- Lesson Steps (Lesson

9:50 content, structure, strategies &
Key Questions):
Provide websites and
resources so students can in https://www.thoughtco.com/stages-of-meiosis-373512
pairs find own information to fill https://quizlet.com/3829376/8-stages-of-meiosis-flash-cards/
out steps of meiosis in greater http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/meiosis/page3.html
detail to aid in making a https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/cellular-molecular-
thinglink for others using this biology/meiosis/a/phases-of-meiosis
information to answer the https://www.khanacademy.org
question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCLmR9-
your younger cousin lives in YY7o&list=PLQp_169bkqKLq6VUCA28T-aOWlFt_a1Tg&index=2
London and wants to learn
about what you are doing in
science. you need to describe

the steps of meiosis in depth

with text and audio in the
explain everything app get
them to delegate rolls one
records the audio as the other
one draws.

Lesson Closure:(Review
lesson objectives with
9:50- students)
9:53 Get students to save explain
everything movie and send
them to you

Transition: (What needs to

happen prior to the next
lesson?)
If students havent completed
9:53- task set as homework, as
9:55 following lesson they will be
played to task, with peer
evaluation

Assessment: (Were the

lesson objectives met? How
will these be judged?)
Clarity of explain everything
movie and depth of knowledge.
How well have they explained
it?