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TERM/WEEKS: : Term 2
Week 3

YEAR LEVEL: Pre

Primary

LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Science/ Exploring my

5 senses

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy

Numeracy

ICT

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

WEEK/
LESSO
N

AUSTRALIAN
CURRICULUM
LINKS
Science
Understan
ding

Week 3 Science
Lesson involves
3
explorin
g and
observin
g the
world
using the
senses
(ACSHE
013
Explore
and
make
observati

Scien
ce as
a
Huma
n
Endea
vour

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

Scienc
e
Inquir
y
Skills

Students will be
able to name
different sounds
when presented to
them.

Introduction: This lesson will focus on sound.

Activity 1: Children closing their eyes and listening

to the nature video and explaining to the teacher
what types of things they can hear.
Activity 2: Naming different types of animals after
they hear their sounds.
Activity 3: Teacher takes students outside to talk
about the different things that they can hear outside
in their own environments and explain why sound
is important.

When the
students are
finished ask
them what
sort of
sounds did
they hear?
How did you
feel about the
sounds? Did
it make you
happy, how
did it make
you feel?

YouTube clips
or meditation
CDs

ons by
using the
senses.
(ACSIS0
11)