West Wyalong HS Lesson Plan

Unit/Lesson Title: Waste Management - Food

National Professional Standards for Teachers:
Domain: Know the content and how to teach it

Lesson duration: 50
Stage: 5 Year: 10
Class/Group:
minutes
Standard: 2.2 Organise content into an effective learning and teaching
sequence.

Specific Teaching Target: Focus area/s:

Students will investigate how food waste is generated and what the
solutions are to reduce it.
Rationale:
Create awareness of Food Wastage, Steps to minimise

Syllabus Outcome/s:
4.3: uses a range of written, oral and graphic forms to communicate
geographical information
4.5: demonstrates a sense of place about global environments
4.7: identifies and discusses geographical issues from a range of
perspectives
Prior Knowledge: Waste Management, especially Food
Resources:
SMART NoteBook, created handout, video clips, food waste pdf
http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3334662.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3329162.htm
Newspaper article Food Ban Plan
Syllabus Indicator/s
Time
Content/Learning Experiences
Teaching
Class
Assessment
Strategies
Organisation
Techniques
Introduction (Engagement)
knowledge and
understanding about
how cultural,
technological factors
shape communities in
the global community

10-15

Welcome students,
Provide students with outline of lesson what our
structure and goal will be targeting Food Waste and
Management Strategies.
Mark Roll
Body:
Focus Question for Students to write in books
Why do we create so much Food Waste?
Provide students with a few minutes to write a
response.
Provide student with handout to be completed whilst
watching
Food Waste (3:40)
http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3334662.htm

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Direct
Instruction

Sitting at Desk

Questioning and
depth of responses
will assess their
knowledge as will
questions posed by
students.

Questioning
Direct
Instruction

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5-10

Put the question to students

Evaluate what Food Management Strategies you
currently.
What do you do at home to minimise waste?
What do you do at school to minimise waste?
Students to write the question and a response in
book.
Students to watch 2nd clip
Food Wastage (1:40)
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3329162
.htm

15

Direct
Instruction

Provide students with Food Waste.pdf and read

through document and summarise the document.
Students to also compare their own average weekly
household food waste in NSW to the table.
Questioning

Conclusion(Presentation/Reflection)
Food waste can be the simplest type of waste that
everyone can manage in comparison to other types.
Question students again
Why do we create so much Food Waste?
Can we apply this to other types of waste?
Quality Teaching/Quality Learning Framework
Intellectual Quality
Significance
Deep knowledge
Background knowledge
Deep understanding
knowledge
Problematic knowledge
Knowledge integration

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Individual Work

Students to compare and contrast their response

after watching 2nd clip.
Would they change their approaches?

If students have completed tasks provide students

with newspaper article Ban Plan on Bin Food
Scraps

8 Aboriginal Ways Of
Learning

Questioning

Quality Learning Environment

Explicit quality criteria
Engagement

Cultural

High expectations

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Reference:

Higher-order thinking
Inclusivity
Metalanguage
Connectedness
Substantiative communication

Social support
Students self-regulation
Student direction

Narrative

http://8ways.wikispaces.com

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