Lesson Plan
Assessment: Acclimatised Civilisations – Inquiry Project
60 minutes | Suitable for Grade: 5An inquiry project designed to assess students’ knowledge and understanding of cultures and the environments they have adapted to.
This lesson plan includes the following resources:
Preparation
Provide each student with a copy of the Acclimatised Civilisations – Inquiry Booklet. Read through the instructions with the class and ensure they understand the task. Establish if each student will choose their presentation preference, or if choices will be allocated, e.g. posters, informative displays, PowerPoint presentations.Equipment
- atlases
- digital technologies
- presentation resources
Assessment Plan
The Task
- Students need to research a culture that is at least 500 years old.
- Teachers can either allow students to choose their own culture to research or allocate cultures from the Acclimatised Civilisations – Inquiry Booklet.
- Students need to follow the inquiry project instructions and templates. They will need to conference with the teacher at various stages of their inquiry process before progressing.
- Students need to present their investigation through a chosen presentation style, or one allocated by the teacher.
Differentiation
Extending Students
- Issue parts of the inquiry project as a homework task to increase independent learning.
- Allow more confident students control of their project by reducing the number of teacher conferences.
Supporting Students
- Provide students with culture suggestion cards. Allow students to select or draw randomly out of a hat.
- Allow less confident students to complete the Acclimatised Civilisations – Inquiry Booklet in pairs or small groups.
- Allow students to select a culture from the Acclimatised Civilisations – Teaching Presentation, and to use and extend the information presented in the lesson.
- Assess each step of the Acclimatised Civilisations – Inquiry Booklet and ensure students understand when they need to conference with the teacher, before moving on to the next task.
- Allow less confident students to make their presentations to smaller groups.
Assessment Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
- used strategic whole class or individual questioning
- observed student participation during learning activities
- recorded student progress on a checklist
- annotated student work samples
- collected and reviewed student work samples
- facilitated whole class or peer feedback sessions
- encouraged student self-reflection
- administered formal assessment tasks.
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACHASSI094
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- ACHASSI095
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- ACHASSI096
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- ACHASSI098
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- ACHASSI101
Evaluate evidence to draw conclusions
- ACHASSI105
Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions
- ACHASSK111
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- ACHASSK113
The environmental and human influences on the location and characteristics of a place and the management of spaces within them
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