STEM FORWARD PLANNING DOCUMENT
TERM / WEEKS: UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE YEAR LEVEL: 5
Term 2, Week 3 DEVELOPMENT GOAL: 12
GENERAL CAPABILITIES
Literacy Numeracy ICT Capability Critical and Creative Intercultural Personal and Social Ethical Understanding
Thinking Understanding Capability
CROSS CURRICULUM PRIORITIES
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
SCSA LINKS
Design Design Digital Technologies Digital
Technologies Technologies Knowledge & Technologies
Knowledge & Process & Understandings Process &
Understandings Production Skills Production
Skills
Investigate how Investigating and Digital systems Collecting,
and why food and Defining have components with Managing and
fibre are produced Define a problem, basic functions that may Analysing Data INTRODUCTION
in managed and set of connect together to form Plan, create and National Geographic Kids Video: ‘Awesome 8 – Incredibly Clever Creatures’ National Geographic Kids
environments and sequenced steps, networks which communicate Students watch a 2-minute video presenting eight incredibly clever Video:
prepared to enable with users making transmit data ideas and
people to grow a decision to (ACTDIK014) information,
creatures ‘Awesome 8 – Incredibly
and be healthy create a solution including This video provides students with some inspiration for the animal they Clever Creatures’
(ACTDEK021) for a given task collaboratively would like to research and produce for their garden art
(WATPPS27) online, applying
Collaborating agreed ethical,
and managing social and BODY
Work technical Students research their chosen animals for their Sustainable Garden Art Animal
independently, or protocols Using the classroom iPads, students identify 3 fun facts about their
collaboratively, to (ACTDIP022)
plan, safely
chosen animals
develop and Students identify the physical features of their animals: including size, iPads
communicate texture, shape and colour PicCollage
ideas and Using PicCollage, students will create a poster to present:
information for
solutions o 3 fun facts about their animal
(WATPPS32) o Physical features of their animal
o An image of their chosen animal
CONCLUSION
Think-Pair-Share
With their desk partner, students will share 3 fun facts about their
chosen animals and breakdown the physical features of their animal
LEARNER DIVERSITY
Enabling Students: Students who require further support will be seated at the
front of the classroom, closer to the position of the teacher. Therefore, those that
require assistance with their research or PicCollage have easy access to
assistance. Students who are struggling with their research have the opportunity
to include only ‘1 fun fact’ about their chosen animal.
Extending Students: While researching materials, students who require further
extension can also include the ‘habitat’ and ‘countries’ where their chosen
animal can be found on their poster.
OTHER SCSA LINKS eg Maths, Science
SCIENCE UNDERSTANDING
Biological Sciences
Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to
survive in their environment (ACSSU043)
OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to identify 3 fun facts about their chosen
animal
Students will be able to identify the physical features of their
chosen animals: including size, texture, shape and colour
Students will be able to use PicCollage to create a poster
ASSESSMENT
Marking Rubric – identify that students have achieved each
lesson objective to an ‘excellent’, ‘satisfactory’ or ‘poor’
standard
