Lesson

Plan
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Day: M T W T F Date: 1 September 2017 Time: 9:40- 10:45 Year: 3 (6 groups of 3/4)
Learning Area: English/ Science Topic: Procedure writing and science experiment (Oobleck).
Curriculum content description: (from ACARA)
Content description:
- Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control
over text structures and language features and selecting print, and multimodal elements appropriate to
the audience and purpose. (ACELY1682)

Elaboration:
- Using vocabulary, including technical vocabulary, relevant to the text type and purpose, and appropriate
sentence structures to express and combine ideas.
- Selecting appropriate text structure for a writing purpose and sequencing content for clarity and
audience impact.
Students prior knowledge and experience: (Outline what the students already know about this topic)
Students have started learning about the parts of procedures and how to write them. In this lesson students will
extend this previous knowledge and use this to write their own procedure and complete the science experiment
as a fun activity at the end.
Learning purpose: (May refer to the Elaborations of the curriculum content description here)
The learning purpose of this lesson is to revise the parts of a procedure (goal, materials, steps and the test), and to
write their own procedure using these steps.
Learning objectives: Evaluation:
- On completion of this lesson, students will be - These objectives will be evaluated through an
able to write procedures using the 4 distinct online quiz at the end of the lesson, that the
parts (goal, materials, steps and the test). teacher will assess the results of the students
- On completion of this lesson, students will be knowledge during this task.
able to follow their own procedures and test at - The teacher will also evaluate the students
the end if their procedure worked or not, and learning by marking their procedures and
why. correcting them before they make their
oobleck.
Preparation and Resources:
(Detail what resources will be used and what other preparation of the learning environment will be required)
Resources:
Cornflour Newspaper
Plastic cups Water (Jug)
Plastic spoons Food colouring
Zip lock bags
Set up this activity and all the materials in the wet area. Place the students into groups of 3-4 and place the
students around the 3 tables. Make sure all students roll their sleeves up and have newspaper down.

Catering for diversity (detail any adjustments considerations for educational/resource adjustments)
- Two main students may find this activity hard, but there will be an educational assistant in the room that
can assist them with the activity and procedure writing.
- All other students will be able to participate in this activity, and be more than capable of procedure
writing and the oobleck activity.
- One teacher per table for this activity, to monitor students making the oobleck.
Timing: Learning Experiences:

9:40 Introduction: (How will I engage the learners?)
Class discussion: (draw the parts on the board)
What are the important parts of a procedure?
Questions:
Does anyone know what oobleck is or has made oobleck before?
What types of materials would we need to make oobleck do you think?
Sequence of learning experiences: (What will you do to help the students achieve the learning objectives?
What tasks and activities will the students be involved in to help achieve the learning objectives?)
Example of oobleck procedure (IMovie on YouTube).
9:45 Link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMoQ7fQl-qM

9:50 1. Students fill out their procedure worksheets with the help from the teacher and the video.
10:05 2. Students start getting ready for experiment. (collecting their ingredients, putting newspaper
on the table, all eyes and ears to the teacher).
10:10 3. Students start making their oobleck. The teacher goes through the steps to make sure
everyone is going on the same track, asking the students what the next step is on their
procedure.
10:15 4. Students are given the chance to play with their oobleck.

Questions: As the students play with the oobleck.
What does it feel like in your hands?
If you squeeze it into a ball what happens? What happens if it runs off your hand?
Poke it sharply, does it feel solid or like a liquid?

10:30 Oobleck conclusion: Ask students to wash their hands, and leave the oobleck in their containers.
(The teachers and EAs will pour the oobleck into zip lock bags for students to take home).

10:40 Student Quiz: Students will log on to the link on seesaw and will participate in a quiz about todays
lesson, this will be evaluated by the teacher as to how far the students got in this task.
https://www.onlinequizcreator.com/procedures/quiz-304299


10:45 All students pack up and get ready for recess time.
RECESS- EATING TIME.
Lesson Evaluation:
(Reflect on the lesson. What worked? What did not work? What would you change? Why?)
- Students were well behaved and everything mostly went to plan. All students were involved in the
Oobleck and all listened carefully to instructions which made the lesson run smoothly.
- However, I had to complete the quiz after recess as time run out, and we had to pack up before they
began eating on their break. This wasnt a big problem, and was easily solved and they completed it after
they can back from their break.
- Students were a little too excited when they found out they were going to be completing the experiment,
but used all eyes and ears and hands on heads, hands on nose etc. This worked well to focus them.
- Students began fighting over colour of Oobleck, but was easily fixed by swapping those around who
wanted the same colour.
- I decided to work with them as a class on the worksheets, which ended up working better.