Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
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LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 8 Time: 9-950 Date: Students Prior Knowledge:
16/3/2017 - The structure of a cell and the
corresponding function each organelle
Learning Area: performs within the cell.
biology - The phases of Mitosis and the
characteristics of the resulting cells.
Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum - The basic structure of a chromosome
- A basic understanding of the phases of
Cells are the basic units of living things; they have Meiosis and basic structures involved.
specialised structures and functions (ACSSU149)

General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative behaviour Social understanding
yes
yes thinking yes competence
yes yes

Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australias engagement with Sustainability
histories and cultures Asia

Proficiencies:(Mathematics only)

Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of this lesson, in point form beginning with an action
verb)

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:

State the definition of Meiosis.

List and briefly describe the phases of Meiosis.
List the key characteristics of the cells formed by Meiosis
Have a brief understanding of the role cell division via Meiosis plays within the body (i.e transfer
of DNA)
Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational risk:
- Ensure class set of Ipads is available with - Academically and technologically
Explain Everything downloaded on it competent students are paired with a
- All students have login for app student who struggles to encourage
- Relevant links are provided for students to greater input
access - Vision impaired students paired with non
- Students are allocated partners prior to the vision impaired- delegated speaking role
lesson.

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

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Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:
Could the students explain meiosis in enough detail? (did they understand meiosis? Or just
regurgitated information the researched?
Did I give enough time for them to finish the explain everything project with enough detail?
(could they use the app competently? Or was it too difficult?)
Was the lesson enjoyable and engaging?
Could the students effectively work in pairs?

Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:

Did I give every student a chance for input and to do their best? (eg. Not picking the same
students to answer questions)
Did I help the students that needed it and extend the ones who found it easy? (eg. More/
different examples of the same topic, having more work to do once finished)
Was I clear in my instructions and clarified properly if there were any problems (eg. Were there
many students asking what to do/ how to do it)
Did I cater for all the students different learning styles in someway? (eg. Use of audio, visual,
written, social, ICT examples)
Did it seem like children enjoyed the topic/ lesson? (was there positive energy in the
classroom? Were students engaged and happy?)

[OFFICIAL USE ONLY] Comments by classroom teacher, HOPP, supervisor:

LESSON DELIVERY (attach worksheets, examples, marking key, etc, as relevant)

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Time Motivation and Introduction: Resources/References:
9-910 Revision of the stages of Meiosis and the basic characteristics Video (1)
of each phase.
https://www.youtube.com/
Video (1) is shown to the students to give students a more in- watch?v=A2Xcm0t-kEM
depth and visual understanding of Meiosis.

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Web links:
Questions):
In their pairs, students are instructed to use the links provided to
create a detailed Explain Everything video about Meiosis. The https://
students are given a scenario that they have a cousin in www.thoughtco.com/
9:10-
9:50 England who is struggling to understand the concept, and they stages-of-meiosis-373512
must make an Explain Everything video to send to them to help https://quizlet.com/
them understand the concept. Students are informed that they 3829376/8-stages-of-
will be presenting their finished video to the class. meiosis-flash-cards/
Using their prior knowledge and web links provided, students
must gather information regarding the phases of Meiosis and http://
their key characteristics. Students are instructed to create an www.biology.arizona.edu/
Explain Everything video with diagrams, labels of structures, cell_bio/tutorials/meiosis/
and audio explaining the phases and their corresponding
diagrams once an adequate level of information has been page3.html
gathered.
Students are encouraged to work collaboratively and to have https://
one partner draw the diagrams whilst the other narrates. www.khanacademy.org/
science/biology/cellular-
During the lesson the teacher will circulate around the room, molecular-biology/meiosis/
ensuring that students have gathered correct and relevant a/phases-of-meiosis
information and are correctly and accurately representing it
using the ICT tool. https://
www.khanacademy.org
Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)
Prior to the lesson conclusion, students will be called upon at https://www.youtube.com/
random to provide answers to various questions regarding the watch?v=qCLmR9-
objectives. YY7o&list=PLQp_169bkqK
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Students had prior knowledge of the phases of Meiosis, therefor
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time in this lesson was only allocated to build a more in-depth aOWlFt_a1Tg&index=2
understanding about the key characteristics of each phase. The
lesson objectives will be the same for the next lesson, as the
next lesson will comprise of only presentations and no knew
learning. A review of the lesson objectives will be undergone in
the next lesson when the teacher has evaluated each partner/s
video and assessed their understanding of Meiosis. The
students have been allocated adequate time to complete their
video and should therefor be ready to present in front of the
class in the next lesson. Students will be allocated an order in
which they will present.

9:53-
9:55 Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)
If students have not completed the task, extra time will be
allocated during the before-school period from 8am-9am for
them to complete it.

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Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will these
be judged?)
The teacher will review each of the videos and mark each
student and their partner accordingly as to how well their
understanding has been displayed in the video. Students will
retain information at a greater rate by explaining what they know
(as opposed to writing it down) which is one of the great benefits
of this ICT tool. If the teacher feels as though there is an
inadequacy in the class, more revision and activities on this
particular topic will be undergone in subsequent lessons.

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