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TERM/WEEKS: Term 2 YEAR LEVEL: 4 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: English AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM

Week 2 General Capabilities:
Literacy Personal and Social ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour
competence thinking
Cross-curriculum priorities:
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LESSON
Curriculum
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Week 3 Content Area: Digital  Explore and
Technologies
Lesson 3
Strand: Processes and
production skills
Sub-strand: Digital
Implementation
Content description
code: (ACTDIP011)
Use visually represented
sequenced steps
(algorithms), including  Create a character
steps with decisions made
by the user (branching)
Content Area: English
Strand: Language
Sub-strand: Text structure
and organisation
Content description  Create a fictional
code: (ACELA1496)
Explore the effect of
choices when framing an
image, placement of
elements in the image, and
salience on composition of
still and moving images in
a range of types of texts
Content Area: English
Strand: Literature
Sub-strand: Creating
Literature
Content description
code: (ACELT1607)
Create literary texts that
explore students’ own
experiences and imagining
Content Area: English
Strand: Literature
Sub-strand: Creating
literature
Content description
code: (ACELT1794)
Create literary texts by
developing storylines,
characters and settings
Content Area: English
Strand: Literacy
Sub-strand: Interpreting,
analysing and evaluating
SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT
OBJECTIVE (what & how)
 Students are required to
develop participate in discussions
understanding of with the class and with
where to access their peers.
non-copyright  This lesson is an
images and introductory lesson
scholarly whereby students are
information. learning how to search for
appropriate material and
profile by commence the
developing a development of their
character using characters. Students are
character traits not expected to complete
and background. their character creation in
this lesson.
story character.  When character profiles
are completed in Padlet
students will be submitting
these to the teacher for
summative assessment.
TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES =
ICT and other
EXPERIENCES
(Introduction, Body and Conclusion)
Previous lesson:
 Students have had two previous lessons exploring
the components that make up a character.
 They discussed the story Possum Magic by Mem
Fox as an example together as a class focusing on
what makes it a good story and characters they like
or dislike.
 They also discussed their own favourite characters
and why they like them.
 In the previous lesson students explored the
components that go into developing a story, that it
needs to make sense and flow throughout etc.
 Answer Garden was used in the two previous
lessons to discuss character and story development
as a group with students inputting answers into
AnswerGarden for display on the front screen and
discussion as a class.
Introduction:
 Teacher bring up AnswerGarden answers and
display on the front screen, briefly reviewing the AnswerGarden
necessary components that goes into character and
story development.
Lesson Body:
 Teacher (with a few student volunteers) distribute iPads
iPads to the students whilst they are at their desks
 Teacher asks students some questions about
copyright and intellectual property.
- Students answer in a class discussion
- The teacher is just trying to gauge students
understanding and prior knowledge of copyright
and intellectual property
Britannica
 Teacher directs students to the Image Quest link on Image Quest
the lesson page on their iPads.
 The teacher simultaneously accesses Image Quest
on the screen at the front of the room and students
are expected to follow.
 The teacher shows students how create an account
and to search for images using Image Quest and
explains that these images are available for their