TERM/WEEKS: 2- Week 6 YEAR LEVEL: 2 LEARNING AREA/TOPIC: Health, Emotional Wellbeing

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AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
General Capabilities:
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and creative Ethical Behaviour Personal and social Intercultural
thinking Competence Understanding

Cross-curriculum priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

Notes about device access in the classroom: Students will have access to approximately 4 microscopes, so when in small groups each student will have access to one. For this
lesson an EA or parent helper can be present to assist students in using the microscopes.
WEEK/ West Australian SPECIFIC LESSON ASSESSMENT TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES = ICT and
LESSON Curriculum other
OBJECTIVE (what & how) EXPERIENCES
LINKS (Introduction, Body and Conclusion)
Term 2 Health Observe differences in strands of Formative: Students Introduction “I don’t want curly hair”
Week 6 hair from themselves and others should be able to • The teacher will start off the lesson with a mat session and read Picture Book
Lesson 1 Personal strengths within their group by using identify at least 1 the book ‘I don’t want curly hair!’ by Laura Ellen Anderson
and achievements microscopes. similarity and 1 • Teacher will explain today’s lesson of investigating our own hair
and how they difference in and how it is unique from everyone else's.
contribute to Use a combination of analysis, examining the hairs
personal identities observing and identifying to using microscopes. Body
(ACPPS015) understand that everyones hair is • Activity 1 will involve students taking a strand of their own hair
unique and different. Summative: Teacher and analysing it under a microscope. They will then compare it to Microscopes
will collect students other people’s within their group, identifying similarities and (approximately 3/4)
work from the differences.
rotational activities. • Children should identify at least 2 similarities and 2 differences.
The work is to be • Questions to ask students:
kept and used for the • “Does hair look different under a microscope?”
production of • “What is something interesting you notice about your own hair?”
students individual • “Does anyone else hair look like your own?”
book to be produced Note: For more advanced students or if students finish quickly they
in the 3rd lesson, can have a go at drawing their hair under a microscope in
which will show the comparison to another persons hair as seen under the microscope.
progress of
children’s • Activity 2 will involve students sourcing a variety of materials
understanding of within the classroom that they feel best resembles their own hair.
‘What makes our They will then have time to create a small self portrait using these
identities’. items that they sourced for their hair. Accessible art materials
(Teacher can also such as string, rope,
upload photos of • Activity 3 will involve students identifying and recording ( by cotton, felt, netting etc.
work to programs either writing names, drawing students or taking photographs) of
such as Seasaw for other students within the class who have similar hair to
parental observation themselves, (either style or colour).
of students learning)
• Activity 4 will involve students coming up with at least 4 IPad’s or cameras
descriptive words that describes their hair. Students will write available as a recording
these all onto one large piece of paper or up on the white board. option.
• For example, curly, wavy, straight, orange, long, short Pens, paper, notebooks.

Paper and pens or

Whiteboard and Markers.
Conclusion
• The teacher will call all students back to the matt for a summary
of todays lesson.
• The teacher will ask a student from each group to present their
findings of each activity.
• The teacher will then ask questions to the whole of the class to
observe their understanding of the lesson objectives.
“ Has anyone found any other types of hair other than curly
today?”
“Who else has found that they also like their hair a lot more after
learning about it?”
• Teacher will then briefly introduce next lesson, “Next week we
are going to be learning about what else makes us unique because
its not just our hair that makes us who we are”