Pre service Teachers Name: Katharine Tsoucalas

Mentor Teachers Name: Daniel Addison

School: Toorak PS
VELS Level:
2
Lesson Title: How they Grow?
Lesson Time and Date: Class Science How They Grow? Lesson 2

Year level: 2

Lesson Aims
At this end of this lesson, students will further develop their understanding of lifecycle and How they
Grow.
Childrens Prior Learning (what do the children already know/what have they covered?)
Prior lesson on developing their understanding of lifecycle.
Students have a solid knowledge on how a butterfly and frogs lifecycle develops.
Teaching and Learning Preparation (resources etc)
Youtube show the lifecycle progression of a xxx animal.
Students are to model the lifecycle of a xxx on a worksheet- they are then asked to write a few sentences
about each stage of the lifecycle of this animal/plant/insect.

Session Structure
Lesson Phase
Orientation /Introduction
How best to motivate and
explain the importance of
this lesson? This should be
for about 5 minutes with
links to prior learning or
experiences.
Teaching strategy/Learning
Activities
What will support the
students to learn the
concepts you are trying to
teach and to reach the
learning outcomes?
How will you cater for a
diversity of learning needs?
Conclusion /Closure

How they Grow is a topic which we will follow with specific animal/s
this week. The activities last week served to students understanding of
young, old and the in-between of animal/plant/insect. lifecycles.

Students will be presented with a you-tube video/s containing footage of an

animal/plant/insect lifecycle,
Students are asked to return to their tables and draw the complete lifecycle
of their chosen animal/plant/insect.. They will need to draw the lifecycle
and write a short sentence about each stage.

Time permitting students will share their various animal/plant/insect.

lifecycle drawings/descriptions with their peers.

How will you capture the

main ideas of the lesson?
Recap/revision etc.
Assessment Strategies
What assessment strategies
are used throughout this
lesson? These should be
closely aligned to your

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Students predictions and knowledge on lifecycle will be assessed through

the use of their drawings and brief description of the start of the lifecycle
for their chosen animal/plant/insect.

lesson aims. How you will

you record student learning
outcomes?

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