TERM/WEEKS: YEAR LEVEL: 3 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: HASS; places both similar and different

FORWARD PLANNING DOCUMENT

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
thinking Competence Understanding

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

Notes about device access in the classroom:

Students will have access to iPads.

WEEK/ West SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Australian OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
Curriculum (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)
LINKS
Week 1, The location of - Research, in groups, the Formative Intro
Popplet app.
Australian natural major features of assessment - A The teacher will show students a map of Australia and point
lesson 1 states, the state of Australia that is marking rubric out the states boundaries (WA, NSW, NT, QLD, ACT, VIC),
territories, give. would be used to major cities (Perth, Sydney, Darwin, Brisbane, Canberra,
capital cities - Identify and describe, in assess students Melbourne) and some of the regional centres (Geraldton,
and major groups, the major natural learning outcome. Wagga Wagga, Barkly, Darling Downs, Goulburn, Ballarat) in
regional centres features of the state of This assessment Australia.

of Western Australia that is given to would help to see During this time the teacher will also put the students into their
Australia and students. whether or not the groups and assign them a state of Australia to research.

the location and - Create a group Popplet of students have Body

identifying the information found about researched about In groups, students will use their iPads to research one state of
attributes of the natural features of a the state of Australia. In their research of a state, students have to include
Australia's major state of Australia that was Australia that they a:

natural features researched. have been - Picture of the state and the populations of the state

(e.g. rivers, assigned and have - The major city of the state and population

deserts, put their found - At least one regional centre and its population

rainforests, the information into a - At least two major natural features

Great Dividing popplet. - Name them

Range, the - Add a picture

Great Barrier - Describe the feature

Reef) - Any interesting facts about the feature

(ACHASSK066) All of this research that the students have found will be put
together in a Popplet and presented to the class nearing the
end of the lesson

Conclusion

After the students have presented their finding to the class, the
teacher will ask the students:

- What was something they found interesting about the

research done today

- What was something they didn't know

- What was something they would like to know more about