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oops! I mean first draft. lol. Nicole could you please put this lesson plan onto the lesson plan 1 page.

Sharon has put on the discussion board that we do not have to write lesson plans just sequence of lessons. That the task does not state lesson plans. Do you think it is easier to do as lesson plans or sequence of lesson??

Time lesson plan incorporating other ideas (something like this perhaps?? It is not polished at all but gives you some idea of what I meant by expanding each point...I have just inserted ideas from another page. Cass

I think a sequence is Sharon's preferred way. Unfortunately we have wasted our time doing all of these lesson plans. Please look at the new page 'whole new outlook on assignment'. *Yeah I posted this before I read that :( I have included comments on New page. Cass This is how it should be set up, we just need a good question. Is there any way we could all meet up in Launceston on the weekend? * I cant do this weekend, can do Friday? Cass

Can everybody write yes or no and a reason beside their name in regards to the following statement. We will go with Nicole's lesson plan, maybe adapt as suggested by Cassandra and will explore the importance of time and different time zones in lesson 3 & 4.

Cassandra - Decision time hey? Nicole's lesson plan is a great start. I think we should follow through with those ideas. I think we need to limit our lesson to one simple objective as she suggested eg. Why it time important, or How is time important. The other lessons suggested below (time zones, and zones in a specific country) are a good idea too. I think these should be our next lessons.

Rae - (Rae may be away she originally stated on the discussion board she was busy for two weeks.)

Nicole - Look at Sharon's presentation on mylo and then at the new page I created 'whole new outlook on assignment'. I'm not sure if any of this will work now.

Catherine -

Tracey - yes If everybody agrees with this idea. Have a look at the ideas in this lesson and maybe Nicole's could be expanded to include some of this to make the first lesson more on establishing the students prior knowledge. Lesson 1 ideas

Could everybody write their thoughts below, in regards to the Time lesson plan? We need to decide as there is only 2 weeks to go.

Cassandra Walsh Well done on the Time lesson plan. This is a brilliant start. And good format for assignment too I feel with the inclusion of the strand descriptions and learning goals. I think focusing on "Time and the importance of it" as the unit is a good idea. Anything extra may need more than the 4 lessons of 50 minutes we are allowed. As Sharon used to say when we were doing this in tutes..."Focus on on thing and only have one learning objective for each lesson", and we all know how quickly 50 minutes disappears!! Maybe we started out trying to be too broad or advanced with the original ideas. (eg Telling time should be one unit in itself, the timetables another unit, and planning event another unit etc, not just one lesson on each).

I think even this one lesson could be divided into two lessons... the Intro (the first 2 about prior knowledge, this would fill 50 minutes) and then the expansion lessons (the bottom two with the worksheet and ICT resource, again would fill 50 minutes). And expand of each of the points mentioned in more detail eg. we need to describe content of Youtube video, not just state we will use it. We need to describe ICT resource, not just list it for use.

Then as mentioned below we could explore time zones in lesson 3 and then in lesson 4 chn could choose a country and explore their time compared to Australia's? I think they would have enough time to do this in the 2 remaining 50 minutes lessons?

Rae Hodgson

Nicole Airey I think the plan a trip idea is perfect as it incorporates all of the curriculum areas already mentioned and integrates other disciplines. Lesson two and three: students are assigned a country and are to work in teacher selected mixed ability groups of 3 or 4. lesson to take place in computer lab. Begin by selecting a date to visit the appropriate country......look at events and holidays and choose one..resource [|calendar of events] Organise flight times and dates....[|flight centre], [|travel] or [|sky scanner] Students to publish this information using publisher and word. Also include flight length, time of arrival etc as listed below. Lesson four: present information to class/reflection

Hi all I have had a go at a lesson plan on timetables and calendars feel free to add comments. I hope this adds to our assignment.
 * Catherine Steven **



I now realised my thought below is just a thought and should no be included in this assignment!

Hi all, just a thought.. My daughter is in grade 5. Her project is to plan a trip to three countries using the internet to provide fights and accomodation. She must describe tourist attractions to visit and use public transport.. They have a budget of twenty thousand dollars and must present their trip to the class at the end.. My daughter loves this idea and she is rally getting into it. Her countries are all in Europe. She too has had to think about time zones and caldender dates. The only thing I'm concerned about is which resource are we basing our ideas and assignment around. Catherine does this mean you do not like my lesson plan proforma or the idea of travelling to a country? We really need to choose an idea and get on with it as the assigment is due in a few weeks. Your lesson plan is completely different to mine and they need to be the same, also as I have already mentioned the lesson needs to be enquiry based, this means that students will need to use ICT resources to seek information, that is why I thought the lesson planned around finding flights etc was ideal. If you would prefer to go your way I am happy to do so but we will need ideas for the other 3 lessons and more resources.

Sorry, I didn't mean I didn't like your lesson plan.. I just had to start to do something to get my head around the assignment. I felt like I wasn't participating.. I would like to meet this weekend as I feel I'm not understand where everyone is coming from. I need to talk to people to understand what is required, and make sure we are all on the same page without wasting anymore time.

I discussed this with the 5/6 teacher I work with and he said that planning a timetable would probably be 5/6 level more so than 3/4.

I agree that we need to decide and I also think we need to consider how much our students would already need to know before these 4 lessons to enable them to be able to plan a trip to another country considering that 3/4 students are being introduced to timetables. If we went ahead with the planning a fete or trip idea we would need to include somewhere that this unit is following another unit where they have already covered this required prior knowledge. There is too much for just 4 lessons. There is enough information in Nicole's idea for 4 lessons without planning a trip. Also I think that the lesson plan that Nicole has produced is very good.

Tracey Crowther I think the lesson plan is great I would probably just add to it that the students write on the whiteboard. This seems to get them really engaged. If we write in our cohort that we have available a computer lab for the class to use then we could have the students working in pairs at the computers all at once instead of taking turns to explore the learning resorce. I think that it is only 4 lessons to plan an event or trip may need a lot more?? I have bolded Nicole's idea below. I think this sounds good, I don't think I would go further and plan a trip I think that the bit bolded would fit into the other 3 lessons nicely and the students could present their information to the class in poster form (using publisher or Word) or as a slideshow in powerpoint.

Hi everyone, I have gathered some of our ideas and attempted to put them into some order. Unfortunately, I did it in word so you will have to click here to have a look. I have only gone as far as lesson one because I just re-read the assessment task and I think we are moving a little bit away from the task with the "fete" idea. The assessment task description says to 'craft a question that students can explore" and It is to be an enquiry based project where each lesson will build on the one before and provide multiple ways for students to publish their findings. **Maybe we can leave lesson one as 'confirming student ability to tell time' but make the next two a little more enquiry based. Maybe small groups could choose a country (or have one assigned to ensure they all are in different time zones) and the groups can create a brochure or slide show of their country. Including things like....the time difference (in comparison to Australia), seasons, celebrations and events they hold on certain dates etc. Each lesson could begin with a 10 minute discussion and brainstorm, then students can go and "explore". The student cohort says that students use the computer lab twice a week so we can plan around that...or change it. This could require using google earth, weather and time websites, search engines etc and students can present their "computer published" findings to the class in lesson 4 followed by a reflection of what we have learnt about time. The question could be "is it the same time everywhere?" or "what time is it where?".**

When it is time to present their work, students can create a timetable to say who goes when, according to the time in their group's country. I think that maybe this will be an easier way for us to answer the questions about enhancing student learning, why these resources are the best and the teaching implication. Anyway, some or all of you may disagree with me, this is just a thought I have had. Sorry to throw a spanner in the works, please reply with your opinions. Also, if you like the way I have set up lesson plan one, I will put it on here so we can add and change and re-arrange until we are all happy. Nicki hi, me again, with another idea.....students can plan a trip to their country. They will need to plan it around an event or holiday e.g halloween in USA so this will be research and calendar reading. It can include flight times, connecting flights,(timetables) length of flight, time of arrival, how to adjust your watch, When they arrive is it day/night, what time is it, the weather, the season etc. If there is time they can even have a holiday itinery (timetables). I will get back to you with some resources cheers Nicki