Appendix 1

LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LESSON ORGANISATION
Year Level: 6 Time: 9:00-10:00am Date: 25/10/19 Students’ Prior Knowledge:

Learning Area: Technologies - Students do not have any prior knowledge on

trash racks.
- Students have learnt about the effect waste is
having on our oceans, in various different
lessons.

Strand/Topic from the Australian Curriculum

Work independently, or collaboratively when

required, considering resources and safety, to
plan, develop and communicate ideas
and information for solutions (WATPPS38)
General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative thinking behaviour Social understanding
competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
histories and cultures
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:

• List the most important features of a functioning trash rack, in small groups.
• Identify what the main function of a trash rack is, in small groups.
• Work together effectively within a small group of people.

Teacher’s Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational risk:

- YouTube video uploaded - Students who may not be able to use the iPad
- 30 worksheets printed out properly, will share an iPad with one of their
- Anecdotal note grid set out and ready to go group members.
- iPads, charged and ready to be used - Students will be put in groups, so those
students who struggle to find a group will be
put in group like everyone else.

LESSON EVALUATION (to be completed AFTER the lesson)

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Assessment of Lesson Objective and Suggestions for Improvement:

Teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation:

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

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

Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the
- The teacher is going to introduce that for the next 8 lessons, segment where they will
we are going to be designing and building our own trash be introduced.
9:00am-
rack.
9:20am
- The teacher is going to show a YouTube clip on waste in
our oceans and what the effect it is having on our earth and
why we need to act now, to prevent further damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNFUwVcpZAI

- The teacher will then proceed to show some pictures of

different trash racks, to enable students to get an idea of
what they are going to be building.

- The teacher will then start at discussion about trash racks

and take any questions regarding their upcoming project.

Questions to be posed:
- What does a trash rack do?
- Why do you think we will be learning about trash racks and
proceeding to create a model of one?
- What are some of the features that you saw in those
pictures that are important to a functioning trash rack?

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key

Questions):

9:20am- - Students are going to be put in small groups of 3 and these

9:50am are going to be there small group for the rest of the term.
Personal and social competence

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 - In their small groups, students are going to be using the
class iPads to research trash racks.

- The research needs to be connected to the trash rack

worksheet, because once students have completed some
research, they will need to start filling in this template. ICT
Competence

- When filling out this template, students will be required to

answer the following questions. Literacy

• Identify what parts of a trash rack are important for it

to effectively pick up and store rubbish?
• What is the main function of a trash rack?
• For what environmental reason is a trash rack
designed for and why do you think we are designing
our own trash rack?
• Draw some of the important features that you
believe should be included in your design?

- By researching these questions and filling out the questions,

it will provide students with a solid understanding of what
trash racks are, what they do and why they are being used.
It will also provide them with a bit of knowledge for when
they get started on designing their own trash rack.

- Students will be using critical and creative thinking when

answering these questions.

9:50am- Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

10:00am
- The teacher will gain students attention and ask them to
come down to the mat.
- The teacher will now ask each group to find another group
and discuss what they had write for each question and
discuss some of the similarities and differences that they
found.
- The teacher will now ask some of the students to read out a
particular question, followed by the teacher repeating their
answer back to them for the whole class to hear.

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

- Students are to pack everything away, clean up the

classroom and return to the mat, ready to begin the next
lesson.

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Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will these be
judged?)

- A checklist will be used to assess the first 2 objectives, but

they will be assessed as a group. See attached.

- An anecdotal notes grid will be filled out to assess objective

3. The teacher will note down any bad behaviour or people
not working well in groups. See attached.

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 Design Your Own Trash Rack (Worksheet)
List what parts of a trash rack are important for it to effectively pick up and store rubbish?

What is the main function of a trash rack?

For what environmental reason is a trash rack designed for and why do you think we are designing our
own trash rack?

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Draw some of the important features that you believe should be included in your design

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 List the Identify Notes / comments
most what the
important main
features of a function of
functioning a trash
trash rack. rack is.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9

Group 10

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 Sustainability
“Sustainability can be defined as the ability to maintain healthy environmental, social and
economic systems in balance, indefinitely, on a global and local scale” (James Cook University,
n.d.). In this project students are going to be designing their own model trash rack and this
project directly links in with sustainability as trash racks only use is to collect and store rubbish
in water systems. It provides students with an understanding of how environmental systems
interact and help support human life, it provides students with the knowledge to go out and live
sustainable lives and appreciate how the development goals of suitability are working to create
a better world.
This project links in well with the sustainable development goal 14 “Life on Land” as the rubbish
that is floating around in oceans and waterways is affecting all life underwater and these trash
racks are working towards decreasing the amount of waste in our oceans. It also closely links in
goal 12 “Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns,” as the students will be bringing
in reusable items from home, so this project is making sure there is a sustainable consumption
of product.
This project is not only building towards a sustainable living as the sole purpose is to reduce the
amount of waste in our waterways, but it is also working towards the reduction of consumption
of material, as we are using second hand reusable material to design our models.

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 Reference list

Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. (n.d.). Sustainability. Retrieved from

https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/cross-curriculum-

priorities/sustainability/

James Cook University. (n.d.). What is Sustainability. Retrieved from https://www.jcu.edu.au/tropeco-

sustainability-in-action/about/what-is-sustainability

School Curriculum and Standards Authority. (2014). Western Australian curriculum: Technologies

Retrieved from https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/curriculum-

browser/technologies/design-and-technologies2#year-6-syllabus

United Nations. (2015). Sustainable Development Goals. Retrieved from

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300

Water Control Solutions. (n.d.). Trash Screens & Trash Racks. Retrieved from

https://www.awmawatercontrol.com.au/products/trash-screen-trash-rack/