LESSON PLAN 1 - Science: The Following Is A Sample of The Lesson Plan Format Used by The University

LESSON PLAN 1 - Science
The following is a sample of the Lesson Plan format used by the University.
Lesson Topic/Focus: Animal Characteristics Date: 9 June 2015
AusVELS Domain(s): Science Year level(s): 2
AusVELS strand (s): Science Understanding Lesson 50 mins

duration:
AusVELS sub- Biological Sciences
strand(s):
Content Description: Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to
themselves (ACSSU030)
Science involves asking questions about, and describing
changes in, objects and events (ACSHE034)
Learning Standard(s)/Outcome(s): Students will identify how animals differ from each
other.
Assessment:
Students will explore different characteristics of animals.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of why animal characteristics can differ.
Students will represent their understanding in a variety of ways using labelled diagrams.
Teaching focus:
Chosen by Associate Teacher
Your personal choice of skill development

To engage students in the learning activities
To confidently present the science lesson within the allocated time frame
Background to the learning:

Teacher (Teacher resources to inform your content knowledge)
Research Australian Curriculum & AusVELS Science
Picture books with Australian animals
Student (Identify Students background and current knowledge of topic)

The students understand/know:
Recognise that animals look different at different stages of their life
Identify the physical needs of animals
Identify the names of animals and their young
Identify similarities and differences between parents and their offspring
Identify and describe life cycles
Lesson resources:
IWB - Emus are birds, so why don't they fly?
http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/155212/observing-an-emu
Picture books Emu Cant fly Helen Taylor
Lesson content:
A. Introduction 10 mins
Gather as a class. Teacher tunes students into the learning intention to discuss how
animals bodies differ from each other.
Show video of Emus are birds, so why cant they fly?
B. Development 10 mins
1. Identify an Emu is a type of bird.
Q. What does it look like?
Q. How can you tell it's a bird?
2. Discuss the Emus characteristics.

Q. What are some of the Emus characteristics?
Not many feathers on its head.

Big eyes
Sharp beak
Long neck and long legs
Run very fast
3. Recognise that animals have similarities and differences between species.

Q. What makes the emu different from other birds?
4. Discuss other types of birds such as a swan, penguin or eagle.

Q. How are they the same and different to an Emu?
5. Discuss other special characteristics of different animals.

Q. Why do polar bears have thick fur?
Q. Why do giraffes have such long necks?
6. Brainstorm some animals similar characteristics.

Q. What other animals have thick fur?
Q. What other animals have long necks?
C. Consolidation, practice, extension 20 mins

1. Students choose an animal they know and describe what makes it special
2. Students will record their information using labelled diagrams in their journal
3. Students can compare and discuss their animal characteristics during a gallery walk
Extension Activities
Compare and contrast the animals offspring, the food they eat, their environment and
their appearance.
D. Closure 10 mins
Students and the teacher gather together to reflect, articulate, explain and justify their
choice of animal and express the different characteristics
Post-lesson review and evaluation:
Student achievement:
Teaching effectiveness:
Opportunities to Provide Feedback:

The Emu
You can tell an emu egg by it's large size and greenish black color. It's about the
size of a small grapefruit and in shape, it makes you think of a football with
rounded ends. The emu egg, by the way, comes in several shades of greenish
black. It can be fairly light to almost black. I've seen one that was actually more
blue than green.
The emu is a smaller cousin of the ostrich and you can find them in Australia. It
stands about six feet tall and weighs around 150 pounds. It's being grown for
meat in this country. I have a friend who grows them and she says that some can
lay as many as 47 eggs, while others lay only one or two.
The emu has a really neat defense mechanism against its predators. An emu can
only run at about 35 miles per hour, while some of its predators -- they're cats--
can run at close to double that speed. Nevertheless, the emus still survive. A cat
may be chasing an emu and gaining on it. The emu can't escape by flying, since
no bird weighing over 35 pounds can fly. Instead, it races along with it's giant 9
foot long strides. As the cat is bounding full speed after it and just about to catch
it, the emu, still running along at top speed, will raise one of its little stubby
wings towards the sky and point the other towards the earth. This makes the
emu swivel around almost 180 degrees, still at top speed, and it takes off in a
different direction. The cat can't turn this quickly and its momentum will keep it
going for 30 or so yards, by which time the emu is far away. The emu can
exhaust its predator before the predator can catch up with it.
Emus are great natural insecticides. They eat insects and caterpillars, and one
adult emu, when killed, was found to have more than 3000 harmful caterpillars
in its stomach.
By the way, I told you about how emus escape their predators by putting one
wing up and the other down and swiveling around, but there's something else
really interesting about them. They're playful and they like people. We know a
lot about how they communicate with each other and one of their signals for, "I
want to play tag," is to thrust their breasts in a kind of scooping motion towards
the ground. When I was visiting with a local emu grower, she had me do this
when in one of their football-field size pens and then run away from the emus.
They chased after me, and then when I turned around, they ran away from me.
We continued this game of tag for about five minutes until I was exhausted. I
thought at the end of all this chasing that they'd be afraid of me, but instead,
they came up to me and one lay her head on my arm so that I'd scratch her neck
for her.

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Lesson Topic/Focus: Animal Characteristics Date: 9 June 2015

AusVELS Domain(s): Science Year level(s): 2

AusVELS strand (s): Science Understanding Lesson 50 mins

Your personal choice of skill development

Background to the learning:

Student (Identify Students background and current knowledge of topic)

2. Discuss the Emus characteristics.

Not many feathers on its head.

3. Recognise that animals have similarities and differences between species.

4. Discuss other types of birds such as a swan, penguin or eagle.

5. Discuss other special characteristics of different animals.

6. Brainstorm some animals similar characteristics.

C. Consolidation, practice, extension 20 mins

Opportunities to Provide Feedback:

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