Yr. 10 General Science Lesson Plan 7.

Aim of lesson: To continue with the Fossil Record and dating fossils, and link it to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and histories.

Outcome of lesson: Students will learn how to work in groups and relay information, and apply carbon dating knowledge to Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander histories and culture.

Year level: 10 Length of lesson: 45 mins

Structure Time Learning Concepts & Skills What teacher will do What students will do Assessment Resources
Mins Cycle and say (including Activities Equipment
Focus questions)
e.g.

5 mins Welcome the class and Students settle into SEQTA

Beginning Engage take the role. class and get ready.

25 Investigating some of the Tell students to go Students work on task Formative SEQTA
mins structural and physiological back to their home 7. Radiocarbon Laptops
adaptations of Aboriginal and group and work on task dating task. Radiocarbon
Torres Strait Islander Peoples 7. Visit each group and dating
Middle Explain to the Australian environment see what they learnt. worksheet
(OI.3, OI.7) Discuss findings of
Aboriginal histories
language and culture
with the class.
5 mins Explicitly teach about Students form Formative Laptops
the geological time homegroup and Radiocarbon Radiocarbon
scale and mass remember their home dating task. dating
extinctions. (slides 24- group and number. worksheet
Elaborate 38). Students form their Internet
*Note: may not get to number group.
this part, depending on Students work on
student participation in their numbered task.
previous task.
 5 mins Discuss the 5 mass Students go back to Formative SEQTA
extinctions with the their homegroup. Radiocarbon Laptops
class, and pose the Students work on task dating task. Radiocarbon
End Evaluate question “Are we 7 and relay their dating
entering the 6th mass information. worksheet
extinction?” Reflect on learning

5 mins The theory of evolution by Check on student Listen, ask questions, Evolution
natural selection explains the learning. share ideas. PowerPoint
diversity of living things and is
Explore
supported by a range of
scientific evidence (ACSSU185
- Scootle )