STEM FORWARD PLANNING DOCUMENT # 4

TERM / WEEKS: Term 3 / 8 Weeks UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE

(Last 8 Weeks of Term, 1 Lesson per DEVELOPMENT GOAL: Goal 15 – YEAR LEVEL: Year 4
Week) Life on Land
GENERAL CAPABILITIES

Literacy Numeracy ICT Capability Critical and Creative Thinking Ethical Understanding Personal and Social Capability Intercultural Understanding

CROSS CURRICULUM PRIORITIES

Sustainability
Aboriginal and Asia and Australian Curriculum
Torres Strait Australia’s Design and Technologies
Islander histories engagement with Knowledge & Understanding: Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes (ACTDEK013).
and cultures Asia o Investigating the suitability of technologies − materials, systems, components, tools and equipment − when designing and making a product, service or
environment, for example a toy for a young child, a composting system for household waste management, raised garden beds for improved access,
weaving nets, bags or baskets.
Process & Production Skills: Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for
the environment (ACTDEP017).
o Evaluating, revising and selecting design ideas, based on criteria for success and including consideration of ethics, social values and sustainability.
Science
Inquiry Skills - Evaluating: Reflect on investigations, including whether a test was fair or not (ACSIS058).
o Reflecting on investigations, identifying what went well, what was difficult or didn't work so well, and how well the investigation helped answer the
question.

SCSA CURRICULUM LINKS

Design Design Digital Digital RESOURCES/KEY
Technologies Technologies Technologies Technologies TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES QUESTIONS
Knowledge & Process & Knowledge & Process &
Understandings Production Understandings Production
Skills Skills
Technologies & Designing: Materials & Evaluating: Introduction:
Society: Ways Develop and Technologies Use criteria to o Gain the student’s attention: Clap familiar rhythm. o Behaviour management
products, communicate Specialisations: evaluate and o Refer back to Design Brief Document and Research & Design Rubric for strategy: Clap rhythm.
services and design ideas Suitability and justify simple guidance o Design Brief Document
environments and decisions safe practice design o Inform students that in today’s lesson, we will begin to bring our most o Research & Design Rubric
are designed to using when using processes and voted class garden design to life!
meet annotated materials, solutions
community drawings and systems and (WATPPS25)
needs, including appropriate components for o Assisting with today’s lesson: Interested parents and guardians,
consideration of technical a range of students and teachers within our school community.
sustainability terms purposes o Remind students of the appropriate behaviours to be displayed while o Important remember: To have
(ACTDEK010) (WATPPS23) (ACTDEK103) outside the classroom, and to always have an adult present when using fun!
OTHER SCSA LINKS garden tools and resources.
Science o Provide students with the necessary tools, equipment and resources to build o Creative materials and
Science Understanding – Biological Sciences: Living things have life the class garden. gardening tools.
cycles (ACSSU072). o Provide opportunity for questions and clarification.
Inquiry Skills – Communicating: Represent and communicate o Supporting Instructional
o Learning Diversity: Provide additional support for those students with
observations, ideas and findings using formal and informal
developing fine and gross motor skills. Worksheet
representations (ACSIS071).

LESSON OBJECTIVES Body:

o Given the specific opportunity, students will be able to express o Allow students the opportunity to work efficiently with others, to create
themselves in a creative manner; building their own class garden. our class garden.
o Students will be able to complete various tasks with creative o Duties such as gardening, planting, potting plants and herbs,
freedom.
watering and fertilising.
o Students will work cooperatively with others and display their skill
o Remind students of the appropriate use of tools and equipment.
set when operating tools and equipment.
o Ensure that all students and visiting guests are remaining
ASSESSMENTS
SunSmart.
Diagnostic & Formative Assessment Teacher Resource: Running
o Diagnostic & Formative Assessment: Using teacher resource ‘Running o
o Running Record & Student Observations: Teacher Resource Record and Students
designed for Student and general observation of Student Record & Student Observations’, gain information on student achievement
throughout this lesson. Observations
achievement, during Lessons 1-8.
o Once the class garden is complete, ask students to clean and pack away any o “Please carefully and neatly
o Research and Design Rubric: Teacher and Student Rubric for
equipment and tools used during lesson. pack away any equipment and
Research & Design Tasks.
tools used during lesson.”
o Research Task Worksheets: Worm Farming Task
o Design & Planning Worksheet: Resource designed for Students to Conclusion:
plan and outline, both their Class Garden & Worm Farm ideas. o Gain the students attention: Clap familiar rhythm.
o Classroom discussion: Participation and ideas throughout lesson. o Ask students to thank all visiting guests for helping them during today’s
gardening build.
Learning Diversity / Additional Support: o To reflect, ask the students to discuss with the person next to them one new
o Learning Diversity: Provide additional support for those students skill which they learnt in today’s lesson.
with developing fine and gross motor skills. o Inform students of their next lesson and what they will be learning. o ‘Research Task Worksheets’.
o For those students with learning difficulties; such as Dysgraphia and o Conduct new research on worm farming using their provided o ‘Design & Planning
Dyslexia: Provide additional worksheet outlining simplified ‘Research Task Worksheets’. Worksheet’.
instructions of lesson steps, to refer to throughout the lesson. o Further, designing and outlining their own worm farm designs using o “Praise and recognise the
a provided ‘Design & Planning Worksheet’. student’s efforts and
participation in today’s lesson.”