Explain

Explain
====During the Explain stage you will need to discuss your understanding of the topic to date and communicate this knowledge in an effective way. You will also be learning some specific language about renewable energy and collaborate with your peers and teacher to refine this knowledge. ====

** Learning Intention **
====During this stage you will be provided with the chance to explain the new understandings you have about energy. You will be using primary pad to share this knowledge with your peers and have the chance to refine your ideas by combining your understandings and adding to each other’s knowledge. Your teacher will be available to assist you throughout this process. ====

** Learning Objectives **
During the explain stage you will aim to refine your understanding of specific language and definitions related to renewable energy. You will collaborate with your peers to refine this understanding and work together to define specific terms related to renewable energy

Overview of lessons

 * 1) ==== As a class we will go over the investigations and experiments that we completed in the explore stage. ====
 * 2) ==== To assist with formal language and vocabulary development related to the topic of energy you will choose a non-fiction book on energy from the class book collection to read. This will reinforce your understandings from the explore stage and help with formal explanations of renewable energy. ====
 * 3) ==== Using the Web 2.0 program Primary Pad, you will need to write your own definition for the words related to the topic. You will be able to see your peers typing and changing the word document at the same time you are typing on the same document. These definitions need to be detailed and can include examples to support your definition. ====
 * 4) ==== You will then need to edit or add to at least two of your peer’s definitions. ====

**Primary pad **
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**Science: **

 * ====For students to explain and understand the transforming and transferring of energy ====
 * ====Have knowledge of the connections between concepts related to energy and time ====
 * ====Develop knowledge of the social impact of science (impact of energy in the home or school) ====
 * ====Systematic collection of information to enable reasonable conclusions to be drawn about renewable energy ====

**English: **

 * ====Inclusion of familiar ideas and information for different purposes and audiences in print and electronic texts ====
 * ====Use of strategies for proofreading, editing and revising ====
 * ====Use of knowledge about spelling patterns, including morphemic knowledge, visual and phonic patterns ====
 * ====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. ====