Task 3 Theme: Recycling lesson 3

1. Cross-Curriculum links

1.1. Literacy

1.2. Critical and Creative thinking

1.3. Ethical Understanding

2. Lesson Instructions

2.1. Introduction: 10 minutes

2.1.1. Students will discuss what was completed within the previous lesson where they read the ‘closing the loop’ resource sheet. Students will have a think-pair-share to give information to the class on what they learnt. The class will come back together for students to pose questions they would like to find out in the days research. Questions will be written on the IWB to be discussed at the end of the lesson.

2.2. Body: 60 minutes- 20 minutes per rotation 25 minutes end of rotations

2.2.1. As a class there will be a demonstration of each of the websites that students will be visiting while completing a rotation activity. The first group of students will be using computers to do their own personal research to answer the questions that were posed by themselves and their peers. Any information found will be written in point form in student’s technologies workbooks. The second group will be using books that have been collected from the library by the teacher. These books will be appropriate to the topic being researched. At the end of this rotation students will write down three or more new discoveries in their technologies workbooks. The third group will be working with the teacher on the IWB. The class will access a website called Eco Innovations where students will take turns reading information and exploring the website with the teacher. At the end of this rotation students will write three things they found out from this station in their technologies workbooks.

2.2.2. Students will find someone that wasn’t in the same rotation group as them to write one fact in their technologies workbook that they found out. Students will be selected at random to share with the class their research.

2.3. Conclusion: 10 minutes

2.3.1. As a class the questions on the IWB will be read out and ticked off if someone in the class has gained information which answers it. The next lessons review task will be discussed to prepare students.

3. Assessment

3.1. This lesson is a formative assessment. students will be gathering information in their workbooks for future use. The amount of work students produce can be seen within books when picked up. these can also be shown to parents to show what students have been doing in class on the topic.

4. Australian Technologies Curriculum

4.1. Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs (ACTDEK010).

5. Focus Questions

5.1. through the plan What did we do last lesson? Does anyone have anything they would like to find out in their research today? What is a lifecycle? Why do different materials go in different bins? How else found the same information? (Raise hands) Did we find out…? What is the answer to the question? What can we do to help with this?

6. Materials

6.1. IWB with website: http://www.ecoinnovators.com.au/#!good-design-guide/ctff

6.2. Recycling Books

6.3. Computers to access website of choice. some of these may include the website that students will be using for assessment in the following lesson. http://www.mobilemuster.com.au/learn-about-recycling/ http://www.techcollect.com.au/ http://schoolsrecycle.planetark.org/involved/

6.4. Technologies workbooks

6.5. Pop sticks with students names