Teaching+Resources

** Engage **
====This stage is designed to provide the teacher with an understanding of the children’s prior knowledge and assess the children’s readiness for learning about the topic. The children should also be provided with the opportunity to share their understanding of the topic and collaborate with the teacher to establish learning goals. ====

**Explore **
Throughout this stage the teacher will provide the students with specific tasks designed to challenge any misconceptions the students may have about the topic. The tasks should prompt students to develop questions, reflect on their understanding and then seek answers to those questions. The students should be provided with an appropriate rage of tools and strategies to assist them to effectively manage their time and the information they collect.

**Explain **
During this stage the students are provided with the chance to explain their understanding of the topic to date. The students can use any method they feel will communicate this knowledge effectively. The teachers role throughout this stage is to explicitly teach the language of the topic and assist the students to reflect on their learning and link their knowledge together effectively.

**Elaborate **
Throughout this stage the teachers continues to monitor the students learning and guides them towards areas of improvement and promote higher order thinking. The students are encouraged to maintain a dialog with their peers in order to deepen their understanding of the topic and continuously deepen and refine their understanding.

Evaluate
Throughout this stage the students will participate in an activity to encourage self reflection and develop future learning goals. The teachers role throughout this stage is to assist the students during this self reflection process with the learning goals set at the beginning of the unit along with their progress against the VELS curriculum.

**Interpersonal Development: **

 * ==== Students explore the similarities and differences in the values and beliefs of a range of individuals and compare their values and beliefs with others. ====

**Science:**

 * ==== Students frame investigating questions that interest them and are drawn from locally based issues about energy. ====

**Information Communication Technology:**

 * ==== Students use ICT tools and techniques that support the organisation and analysis of concepts and issues and draw relationships from them. ====
 * ==== Use websites to acquire and share information with peers. ====
 * ==== Students can successfully upload their work to a protected public online space. ====

**Communication:**

 * ==== Students use relevant questioning to improve their understandings. ====

**English:**

 * ==== Students produce, in print and electronic forms, a variety of texts for different purposes using structures and features of language appropriate to the purpose, audience and context of the writing. ====

**Thinking Processes:**

 * ==== With teach er support, formulation of appropriate key questions for their investigations or responses. ====

**Science: **

 * ====To improve and change science knowledge through the outcomes of new investigations and explorations ====
 * ====For students to use everyday examples to illustrate the transforming and transferring of energy ====
 * ====Create awareness of the connections between concepts related to energy and time ====
 * ====Construction of a simple model, following teacher directions, that illustrates a scientific concept (wind turbine) ====
 * ====Application of safe and ethical procedures in performing experiments, including responsible handling of standard equipment and materials ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develop knowledge of the social impact of science (impact of energy in the home or school) ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mathematics: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They measure as accurately as needed for the purpose of the activity and have an Awareness of the accuracy of measurement required and the appropriate tools and units (when creating a wind turbine) ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">English: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Selection of vocabulary, text structures and visual features to effectively communicate ideas and information ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Inclusion of appropriate visual images and information in print and electronic texts (during Glogster) ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Information Communication Technologies: **
====**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interpersonal Development: (During team investigations) **====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creation of files, saved in nominated locations, which demonstrate the use of ICT for learning ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use electronic tools and programs to organise and analyse data and information. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Electronically create designs for the layout and solutions of information products that demonstrate their knowledge and skills ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Understanding of their own role in a task, as well as the roles of other team members ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develop skills in shared understanding of tasks and team plans ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Provide feedback to others and evaluate their own and teams performance ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For students to explain and understand the transforming and transferring of energy ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have knowledge of the connections between concepts related to energy and time ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develop knowledge of the social impact of science (impact of energy in the home or school) ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Systematic collection of information to enable reasonable conclusions to be drawn about renewable energy ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">English: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Inclusion of familiar ideas and information for different purposes and audiences in print and electronic texts ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use of strategies for proofreading, editing and revising ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use of knowledge about spelling patterns, including morphemic knowledge, visual and phonic patterns ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read, interpret and respond to a wide range of literary, everyday and media texts in print and in multimodal formats ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Information Communication Technologies: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Organisation and analysis of data and information, using unfamiliar software ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use websites and facilities to or share information with peers ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thinking Processes: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identification of useful and irrelevant information and key words when collecting information for a report ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develop a growing awareness of the complexity of the world around them. ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Representation of understandings of concepts such as energy transformation ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Application of science knowledge to new contexts ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Arts (Creation of a video): **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Manipulation, using appropriate skills and techniques, of selected dramatic elements to communicate ideas for a specified purpose or audience ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Refinement of media products to communicate intended representation of ideas ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plan, develop, refine, make and present art and media work to communicate ideas and understandings ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They consider purpose and suitability when they plan and prepare arts works for presentation to a variety of audiences. ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Civics and Citizenship (In voting on polldaddy): **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Understanding of more than one perspective on an issue and different points of view on current issues. ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">English: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Consideration of purpose and audience in preparation of presentations ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use of multimedia to enhance meaning when communicating ideas and information to others ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Information and Communication Technology: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Apply conventions and techniques that improve the appearance of the finished product ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interpersonal Development (Working in teams): **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Understanding of their own role in a task, as well as the roles of other team members ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develop skills in shared understanding of tasks and team plans ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Provide feedback to others and evaluate their own and teams performance ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mathematics: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identification and analysis of data (result in polldaddy) ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Collection of mathematical data using technology; for example, using data logging ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Representation of understandings of concepts such as energy transformation ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Application of science knowledge to new contexts ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have knowledge of the social impact of science, ie: the impact of renewable and non-renewable energy sources. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have awareness of the concepts of energy use in the community ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Information Communication Technology: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students use ICT tools and techniques that support the organisation and analysis of concepts and issues and draw relationships from them. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use websites to acquire and share information with peers. ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">English: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students produce, in print and electronic forms, a variety of texts for different purposes using structures and features of language appropriate to the purpose, audience and context of the writing. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use of appropriate and relevant vocabulary to a topic ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Personal Learning: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use of evaluation strategies and criteria for measuring progress toward goals ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Understanding of their preferred learning style and environment. ====

**<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thinking Processes: **

 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Awareness and recording of how their ideas and understandings have changed and why ====
 * ====<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With teacher prompting and support, evaluation of their learning and the effectiveness of their thinking processes and tools ====

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