Lesson Plan 5 – ICT
Victoria University Pre service Teachers: Gemma Trimboli & Jennifer Albanese
School:Footscray City Secondary College
/ Year Group:
Year 7 / Day:
/ Date:
Topic:
Putting all their work together In a massive PowerPoint presentation called “the things I’ve learnt on Pobblebonk” / Aims:
Creating hyperlinks in PowerPoint– students will attach all their previous work on the PowerPoint: including work on Aquatic Animals, Land Dwelling Animals and Microscopic Animals as well as their pamphlet on the Living Museum / VELS:
Level 5 Strands
(Building Breadth and Depth)
Physical, personal and social learning / Domain:
Interpersonal development
Personal learning
Civics and citizenship / Focus:
Developing positive relationships through understanding and respecting others.
Mindful learners and thinkers within a learning community. Reflecting on how various strategies help their learning.
Study the origins of democracy and various other types of government in an historical context / Standards:
Building social relationships and working in teams
The individual learner and managing personal learning
Civic knowledge and understanding, community and engagement
Discipline based learning / The arts
English
Humanities
Science / Expressed through ICT
Exploring and understanding a range of texts
History – Developing knowledge and understanding
Classification system for living things / Creating, making, exploring and responding
Reading, writing, speaking and listening
Historical knowledge and understanding, Historical reasoning and interpretation
Science knowledge and understanding, science at work
Interdisciplinary learning / Communication
Design, Creativity and Technology
Information Communication Technology (ICT)
Thinking Processes / Developing strategies of listening and finding meaning from communications
Design, creativity and technology individually and in teams
Learning to use a variety ICT tools. Learning and problem solving. Organizing and managing files
Effective and skillful thinking for the future / Listening, viewing, responding and presenting
Investigating, designing, producing, analyzing and evaluating
Visual creating, thinking and communicating
What the students know and should be able to do
Location / Setting:
In an ICT room. Also the physical exhibition will be prepared in the Library/Future Centre or outside the ICT room to refer to during this lesson. Students will have the information on the animals through the website but they won’t have the animals’ location available at this time to refer to, hence the exhibition will be available for use. / Organisation / Student Groups:
Student will have a computer each. This work will be conducted individually as each student will have their own portfolio, as such on Pobblebonk
/ Classroom Management strategy:
Because the website isn’t quite ready yet, we will have approximately 20 burnt data CD’s, with the websites’ context which the students can preview the website via the internet browser. (This is temporary)
Key Vocabulary:
· ICT
· Pobblebonk
· Interactive
· Microscopic Animals
· Aquatic Animals
· Land Dwelling Animals
· Estuary
· Fresh water, marine
· Mammals
· Maribyrnong
· Western Region / Materials, Resources and Equipment
· Approximately 20 CDs with websites data
· Microsoft Publisher program on each computer
· Students will also need to save their work with a USB/folder created to hold all Pobblebonk work.
· The physical exhibition for referral
· Student questionnaire (30 copies)
· Teacher questionnaire (3 copies)
· Focus group questionnaire (15 copies) / References / Sources
· Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West – their exhibition on Pobblebonk
· A whole lot of books, which is recorded on the resources page of the website
INTRODUCTION
Connecting, Engaging and Modelling Inquiry / MAIN BODY
Guiding Inquiry and Practice / CONCLUSION
Sharing, Explaining and Reviewing Inquiry
· Briefly recap on previous lesson
· Begin the lesson: Today’s lesson we will be working on putting all your previous work together in a final PowerPoint presentation. You will learn how to attach your work using hyperlinks
· Uploading all recent work done in previous 4 classes onto a PowerPoint presentation call “The Things I’ve learnt on Pobblebonk”
· Hyperlink work on:
- Aquatic animals
- Land Dwelling Animals
- Microscopic Animals
- Pamphlet promoting Living Museum / Structure of PowerPoint Presentation:
· Title: “The things I learnt on Pobblebonk”
· Page 1: “In the first lesson we did…..something new I learn was …..” and then hyperlink the work on this lesson
· Page 2: “In the second lesson we did…..something new I learn was …..” and then hyperlink the work on this lesson
· Page 3: “In the third lesson we did…..something new I learn was …..” and then hyperlink the work on this lesson
· Page 4: “In the forth lesson we did…..something new I learn was …..” and then hyperlink the work on this lesson
· Page 5: “The work I most enjoyed was…In today’s lesson I learnt…..”
· The hyper-linking will be done as a class lesson they the students can do the others by themselves
Teaching Group:
Team teaching will be conducted by Gemma and Jenny / · Finish off work and save on our USB and in a folder they set up to collect their work
· Get students to fill out student questionnaire then select 8 students for the focus group.
Pre-service Teacher Personal Reflection / Mentor Feedback
University Colleague Feedback (where appropriate)