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TERM/WEEKS: 2 YEAR LEVEL: 7 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Science

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

Notes about device access in the classroom: All students are in possession of school laptop with connection to school WiFi. Laptops are only to be used in the classroom under
teacher supervision for educational purposes.
Week/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
Lesson Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES other
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

3, Some of Earth’s - Students will be able to define Title: Energy

Lesson 1 resources are the following terms: Introduction:
renewable but
o Energy  New topic – Energy. Answer Garden
others are non- Answer Garden –  Using AnswerGarden, ask students a broad question
renewable o Renewable energy Formative about energy sources to determine the student’s prior
(ACSSU116) o Non renewable assessment knowledge.
energy
- Students will create a Body:
brainstorm of all different  Show youtube video to introduce new topic YouTube: Renewable
 Introduce a ‘think, pair, share’ activity where students Energy Explained
types of energy sources, both
brain storm as many sources of energies as possible
renewable and non- individually, and then share with partner. Blank A4 paper
renewable. Brainstorm –  Students to continue on adding to their brainstorms
- Students will be recognise Formative with the help of monitored Internet research.
solar, water, wind as assessment  Engage students in discussion about what energy
renewable energies. sources they learned about and what they use at home.

Conclusion:
 Ensure that solar, wind and water energies were
brought up in discussion prior to extending the topic.
 Give students a brief overview of where the topic is
heading.
 Set homework for the following lesson to read chapter
X.X of textbook and become familiar with solar energy Pearson Year 7 Science
before an experiment. Textbook
Week/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
Lesson Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES other
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Week 4, Water is an - Students will be able to define Title: The Water Cycle
Lesson 1 important and explain the different Introduction:
resource that
stages of the water cycle
Kahoot! – - Class begins with a Kahoot! Quiz reviewing the content
cycles through formative covered in the previous week to assess student’s progress. Kahoot!
the environment( o evaporation assessment
ACSSU222) o condensation - Introduce the next renewable energy – Water.
o precipitation
Body:
- Create a comic strip showing
- engage class in a discussion about water – lead them
understanding of concepts
towards a discussion about the water cycle YouTube: The Water
covered in the lesson.
- Show the ‘water cycle song’ YouTube clip Cycle Song
- Introduce the main activity of the day, to create a comic strip
Class set of iPads
of the life cycle of a water droplet on ComicLife using class ComicLife
iPads.

Conclusion:
- Students are to send their comic strip through to teacher, to
be printed out and displayed around the classroom.
- If students have not completed their comic strips, they can
be completed for homework.
- ‘Ticket out the door’ exercise as students leave the
classroom they must give a fact about any renewable
energies that have been covered.
Week/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
Lesson Curriculum OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES other
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)

Week 4, Some of Earth’s - Explain how water can be Title: Water as a Renewable Energy.
Lesson 3 resources are used as a renewable resource Introduction:
renewable but Random - Using popsticks marked with students names, start the
others are non- - Be able to recall the water questioning – lesson with revision quiz of what has been covered in the
renewable cycle and explain it makes formative
topic so far, with particular focus on water.
(ACSSU116) water a renewable energy assessment
- Introduce topic of the day, developing on the previous
- Create a communal Google
Water is an lessons topic, how water is used as a renewable energy.
Slides document use as a
important
resource that learning resource for other Body:
cycles through students in the class. - Students to watch short video explaining hydropower and Youtube: Hydropower
the environment( hydroelectric energy
ACSSU222)
- Provide further explanation to how hydropower works and
initiate discussion as to why students think water would be a
good renewable energy.
- Divide students into groups of 2-3, and give each group a Pre-prepared cards
card with a type of water energy to create an information
slide on. Give students the link to a GoogleSlides document Google Slides
and collate all slides.

Conclusion:
- Conclude lesson by giving a brief summary of what has been
covered in the lesson so far. Students to finish working on
their group slides at the start of following lesson, slides will
be used as a resource for other members of the class.