Example Learning Sequence (Culminating Activity)
Science
Survival on North Keppel Island / Year 5 / Unit 1
Lesson 18 / Human Survival — Linking to Human Survival Stories
Lesson concepts /
Example learning sequence (Culminating Activity)
Review purpose of adaptations
•Describe how adaptations can assist survival in extreme environments.•Identify why adaptations of animals such as the thorny devil and southern right whale can survive in extreme environments.
Identify possible adaptations to ensure human survival
•Analyse a situation where a human has been affected by extreme environments and survived.•Predict possible behaviours a human could have adopted in order to make survival in this extreme environment easier.
•Understand that science uses evidence from nature to develop products to solve human problems.
Minimal Impact Campout
Example resources
Sheet — This is my home (extreme environments)Australian Curriculum references for this lesson
Year 5 Science — Content descriptions
Science Understanding
Biological Sciences
Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment.
Science as a Human Endeavour
Nature and Development of Science
Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena.
Use and Influence of Science
Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to solve problems that directly affect peoples’ lives.
Science Inquiry Skills
Processing and Analysing Data and information
Compare data with predictions and use as evidence in developing explanations.
Communicating
Communicate ideas, explanations and processes in a variety of ways, including multi-model texts.
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Australian Curriculum: Science for Prep(F)-10 Version 3.0
[accessed on 23 January 2012]
General capabilities
Literacy
•Comprehending texts through listening, viewing and reading
•Composing texts through speaking, writing and creating
•Text knowledge
•Grammar knowledge
•Word knowledge
Creative and critical thinking
•Inquiring – identifying, exploring and clarifying information
Personal and social capability
•Self-awareness
•Self-management
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/ Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment.
/ Science involves gathering evidence to develop explanations of phenomena.
/ Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to solve problems that directly affect peoples’ lives.
/ Evidence used in developing explanations.
/ Ideas and explanations can be communicated.
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Learning area specific language:
exposure
Lesson objectives
Students will:
recognise adaptations required for extreme environments.
Evidence of learning
Can the student:
explain the adaptations that help animals survive in extreme environments?
Ideas for monitoring
Monitor students’ ability to:
Identify adaptations relevant to survival in extreme environments.
Learning alerts
Be aware of:
students thinking wearing warm clothes and other protective equipment is a structural adaptation.
Suggested next steps for learning
emphasise that adding clothing and other protective equipment is a behavioural adaptation and not a structural adaptation.
Ideas for differentiation
Support
Provide video explainations for the animals in the lesson or similar animals that live in extreme environments.
Extension
Research the details of the extreme environment to find out what makes it so extreme.
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Andrew Gill (NKIEEC)
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