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TERM/WEEKS: Term 1, YEAR LEVEL: 3 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: HASS – Geography

Week 6 ACHASSK066
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
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Notes about device access in the classroom: During these lessons students will need individual access to an iPad at all times. Teacher access to a projector

WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON other
Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Introduction
Week The location of 1) Brainstorm on - Diagnostic: The - Students will be motivated by an iMovie
6 Australian states, Poplet, As a class teacher will make presentation of the teacher’s road trip around iMovie
territories, capital at least 15 mental anecdotal Australia. The teacher will then explain to students presentation
Lesson cities and major different past notes or this is what we will be working towards in the next
1 regional centres Australian holiday observation of 4 few lessons by planning their own road trip around
of Western experiences different students Australia.
Australia and the students have who participate http://popplet.com/
location and had, and then in class - The teacher will then invite students to brainstorm app/#/demo or
identifying group them into discussion with them using Poplet (on projector), holidays they Poplet app on iPad
attributes of the corresponding have been on within Australia (include at least 15
Australia's major States. - Formative: locations and 1 from each State). Group into states Projector
natural features Assess using the once completed.
(e.g. rivers, 2) Individually, A3 blank map o How many States are there?
deserts, Identify where provided. o Let us put these locations in their correct
rainforests, the these locations Students should States.
Great Dividing are on a map of have labelled all
Range, the Great Australia using the 15 locations Body Student iPads
Barrier Reef) google Earth, by onto their map in - Explain to students they will now use Google Earth
(ACHASSK066) labelling them the correct on their iPad to locate all of these locations and Google Earth app
onto a blank A3 locations and label them on the A3 map of Australia that will be
map of Australia. States provided. A3 Australian map
Identify current 3) As a class, - Formative: The - Go through how to use google Earth by choosing Aboriginal social
understanding compare the teacher will make one of the locations and demonstrating how to use group map
of a topic (e.g. location of mental the features. Draw students attention to the location retrieved from
brainstorm, Fremantle on a anecdotal of Fremantle and compare that map to an Aboriginal www.aiatsis.gov.au/
(WAHASS26) standard Australian notes or social group map explaining the difference between explore/articles/aiat
map to the original observation of them. sis-map-indigenous-
Aboriginal social 4 students who o What is the difference between this map and
group map. participate in the Aboriginal map australia
class o You will learn more about this later in the
4) Individually, using discussion term.
Padlet list at least 1
different holiday - Summative: Conclusion
destination from Asses each - Now that students have completed labelling the https://padlet.com/
each State within students’ locations from the Poplet onto their A3 map using Prepared Padlet
Australia Padlet to a ICT tools. with a box for each
rubric. They - Students will now type into their already created box student
must include on Padlet using their iPads, their favourite holiday
one location destinations in Australia.
from each - They must include one from each state. This will
State serve as their ‘ticket out door’.