Planning

Standard 2 Know the content and how to teach it.

2.3.1 Curriculum, assessment and reporting.
One of the units of work I planned was Science How things move?
How things move engaged students through experimenting, discussing,
problem solving, and exploring. My lessons followed a logical and sequential order,
coinciding with Science outcomes and concluded with an overall assessment of the
students that will be used in their end of year reports.
Each lesson the students were actively engaged, and enjoyed learning new
facts about movement. Firstly, it was important to teach the new vocabulary we
would be using over the unit, and this was presented through PowerPoint. Students
explored what is movement through active games. How things move through IWB,
and demonstrating these movements for assessment. They learnt how different toys
move, and created their own toys that moved. Through PowerPoint slides, the
students were introduced to force; push and pull. Activities included drawing
something they can push / pull and sorting push and pull objects into Venn
Diagrams. They explored what is friction through predicting, experimenting and
reflecting, and to understand the concept of speed through IWB, testing speed on
themselves and writing a story using the language of speed, fast and slow. They
learned about magnets through IWB, and explored their classroom for magnetic
objects. They developed the understanding of repel when two positives / negatives
meet, and lastly, they explored what is gravity?
This unit had the students actively engaged at high cognitive, high affective
and high operative level.