Unit/Lesson Title The True Cost of Materials Lesson duration 50mins Stage 4 Year 8 Class 8 materials
Rationale Syllabus Outcomes Syllabus Content
Students understand the TE4-9MA investigates how the characteristics and properties of investigate products and services for the individual and/or the embedded cost of raw tools, materials and processes affect their use in designed community, considering ethical and social factors material production. solutions (ACTDEK029) ST
Prior Knowledge Risk Assessment Resources
Students understanding of Movement around classroom Computers, VR headsets, Smart board. raw materials. Motion sickness. Rio Tinto VR tour. https://www.oculus.com/experiences/go/2394684733881252/? locale=en_US Google doc. Worksheet. Lesson Time Teachers Role Students Role Assessment Outcomes Strategies 3- 5 mins Introduction Learning from prior lesson quickly reviewed. Students give answers and ask questions. Formative Lesson introduced and described as a tour of assessment of Rio Tinto mine to see the enormity of the prior knowledge. process, what components make up this Students collect headsets and log onto VR process, and the environmental impact of this tour. Students process. understand the cost to the Teacher to organise students into pairs, one One student looks at different aspects of environment wears the headset describing areas of the mine, mining, describing what they see and Continual to gain these Body while the other contributes to a class Google answering questions, for the other student to assessment of materials and doc. write in Google doc. VR use and the cost of responses. waste. Part way through the lesson, have students Reverse rolls and continue answering change rolls and continue. questions.
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student’s posts. Summative At the end of the lesson discuss VR tour and the Students discuss, ask questions and give assessment of Review/ impact and cost of mining on the environment, comment on findings. completed Conclusion while displaying Google doc posts to class. answers.