Out+in+Space

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 * FOCUS OUTCOME:

__Science & Technology__**
 * ES S2.6: Identifies some of the features of the solar system and describes interactions that affect conditions on Earth.

**OVERVIEW OF UNIT OF WORK** __**Summary**__: Out In Space, allows students to explore and investigate the features of our Solar System and its effect towards Earth as well as its impact towards us as humans.

**LESSON PLAN SEQUENCE**

Focus: Introducing the Solar System through a video Outcomes to be developed from English / other KLA - TS2.1: Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum. - WS2.9: Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well-structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features. - WS2.10: Produces texts clearly, effectively and accurately, using the sentence structure, grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text type. - WS2.14: Discusses how own texts have been structured to achieve their purpose and the grammatical features characteristic of the various text types used. - ES S2.6: Identifies some of the features of the solar system and describes interactions that affect conditions on Earth. Description of lesson: - Students will be viewing short videos about the Solar System. They will be reflecting at the end of the video for e.g. “What did you find interesting?”. - Students will then complete an information report in pairs. - Students will then jointly construct a KWL chart with the class. ||
 * Lesson 1 ||  || Topic: Introduction to the Solar System (Click for lesson)

Focus: How to create a visual representation of the Solar System. This includes labels, short descriptions & visual grammar. Outcomes: - TS2.1: Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum. - RS2.8: Discusses the text structure of a range of text types and those grammatical features that are characteristic of those text types. - ES S2.6: Identifies some of the features of the solar system and describes interactions that affect conditions on Earth. Description of lesson: - Students will be examining the visual grammar of a poster on the Solar System for e.g. “What part of the poster do you see first?” - Students will then go and research a particular topic on planets. - Then they are to create a joint class display of the solar system. (Each group will make their part of the display) and justify the reasons they have chosen to use for a particular feature e.g. colours of the planet. ||
 * Lesson 2 ||  || Topic: Planets (Click for lesson)

Focus: Comparing and contrasting the features of space rocks. Outcomes: - TS2.1: Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum. - RS2.5 Reads independently a wide range of texts on increasingly challenging topics and justifies own interpretation of ideas, information and events. - RS2.6: Uses efficiently an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts. - RS2.8: Discusses the text structure of a range of text types and those grammatical features that are characteristic of those text types. - ES S2.6: Identifies some of the features of the solar system and describes interactions that affect conditions on Earth. Description of lesson: - Students will compare and contrast meteorites and asteroids as a class. - They can then do some independent research on interesting facts. ||
 * Lesson 3 ||  || Topic: Space Rocks

Focus: The elements of an interactive website and how it represents the content. Outcomes: - TS2.1: Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum. - TS2.2 Interacts effectively in groups and pairs, adopting a range of roles, uses a variety of media and uses various listening strategies for different situations. - RS2.5 Reads independently a wide range of texts on increasingly challenging topics and justifies own interpretation of ideas, information and events - RS2.6 Uses efficiently an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts. - RS2.7: Discusses how writers relate to their readers in different ways, how they create a variety of worlds through language and how they use language to achieve a wide range of purposes. - WS2.9 Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well-structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features - WS2.10 Produces texts clearly, effectively and accurately, using the sentence structure, grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text type - WS2.12 uses joined letters when writing in NSW Foundation Style and demonstrates basic desktop publishing skills on the computer. - ES S2.6: Identifies some of the features of the solar system and describes interactions that affect conditions on Earth Description of lesson: - Students will be exploring an interactive website and list its features e.g. text, visual etc. - Evaluate the website in accordance to its purpose, features and content. - Students will create their own multimodal powerpoint presentation considering the features from the interactive website as well as the criteria set for the task. ||
 * Lesson 4 ||  || Topic: Day and Night and the Seasons (Click for lesson)

Focus: Cycle of the phases Outcomes: - RS2.8: Discusses the text structure of a range of text types and those grammatical features that are characteristic of those text types. - WS2.9: Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features. - ES S2.6: Identifies some of the features of the solar system and describes interactions that affect conditions on Earth. Description of lesson: - Students will be comparing two representations of the phases of the Moon in a cycle (visual grammar). - They are then to complete their own cycle of the phases. ||
 * Lesson 5 ||  || Topic: Moon and its Phases

Focus: How to write a factual recount on one exploration on the Moon. Outcomes: - RS2.5 Reads independently a wide range of texts on increasingly challenging topics and justifies own interpretation of ideas, information and events. - RS2.6 Uses efficiently an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts. - RS2.8 Discusses the text structure of a range of text types and those grammatical features that are characteristic of those text types. - WS2.9 Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features. - ESS2.6 Identifies some of the features of the solar system and describes interactions that affect conditions on Earth. - TS2.1 Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum. Description of lesson: - Students will be looking at two factual recounts (newspaper article) on the exploration of Mars as an example. - Discuss the elements of a factual recount (e.g. Visual and/or written grammar). - Individually, students are to write their own factual recount on the exploration of the Moon. ||
 * Lesson 6 ||  || Topic: Exploration on the Moon (Click for lesson)

Focus: Researching on their allocated topics for the rich multimodal task. Outcomes: - RS2.5 Reads independently a wide range of texts on increasingly challenging topics and justifies own interpretation of ideas, information and events. - RS2.6 Uses efficiently an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts. - WS2.9 Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features. - ESS2.6 Identifies some of the features of the solar system and describes interactions that affect conditions on Earth. - TS2.1 Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum. Description of lesson: - Students will be researching on their given topic for the multimodal rich task using the Internet, books, posters etc. - The topic given to each group will be their focus for the rest of the unit as they move onto the planning and scaffolding of the rich multimodal task. ||
 * Lesson 7 ||  || Topic: Research

Focus: Exploring film techniques Outcomes: - RS2.5 Reads independently a wide range of texts on increasingly challenging topics and justifies own interpretation of ideas, information and events. - RS2.6 Uses efficiently an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts. - TS2.1 Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum. Description of lesson: - Students will be reviewing videos from lesson 1. - They are to concentrate on the film techniques used and investigate how it contributes to the message/meaning the video is conveying. ||
 * Lesson 8 ||  || Topic: Film Techniques

Focus: Planning and scaffolding for rich task Outcomes: - TS2.1 Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum - TS2.3 Identifies the effect of purpose and audience on spoken texts and distinguishes between different varieties of English. - TS2.4 Identifies common organisational patterns and some characteristic language features of a few types of predictable spoken texts. - WS2.9 Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features. - ESS2.6 Identifies some of the features of the solar system and describes interactions that affect conditions on Earth. Description of lesson: - Students will be planning and storyboarding steps to make a video - Teacher will be scaffolding their planning, i.e. modelling how to use storyboards. ||
 * Lesson 9 ||  || Topic: Planning and scaffolding (Click for lesson)

Focus: Creating a segment for a class educational video about Earth and the Solar System Outcomes: - TS2.1 Communicates in informal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum. - TS2.3 Identifies the effect of purpose and audience on spoken texts and distinguishes between different varieties of English. - TS2.4 Identifies common organisational patterns and some characteristic language features of a few types of predictable spoken texts. - WS2.9 Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features. - ESS2.6 Identifies some of the features of the solar system and describes interactions that affect conditions on Earth. Description of lesson: - Students will be using the knowledge and skills learned from the unit to create a video about the Solar System and its features, or how the Solar System affects conditions on the Earth (day & night/seasons) - Students will use what they have developed from their storyboards to create their 3-5min segment. - Students will have the opportunity to edit their segment for the class video before the final copy is compiled. ||
 * Lesson 10 ||  || Topic: Conclusion