Term 2 2013
Lost
Lost is a unit of work designed to complement the Cogs Unit - Movement and Energy. In this series of web based lessons students read and evaluate four simple machine websites.
It encourages students to explore and experiment with eight scientific concepts:
Ramps and Screws (inclined plane)
Knock Knock (Wheels and Axles)
Start Your Engine (kinetic and potential energy)
Who is Stronger (friction)
Measuring a Force (forces)
Can't Move Me! (Simple Pulleys)
Leave it to Levers (levers)
Gearing Up (gears and cogs)
Using their knowledge of simple machines, students will design a way of obtaining food and water to be delivered to their hut. The final project will be presented to their class as a slideshow and orally explained. Students will evaluate their own work with online assessments that are submitted to the teacher via email. The teacher can view the assessments online and export the data to a spreadsheet for comparison or collation.
The unit of work address the following NSW outcomes:
English - WS 2.12, RS2.6, RS 2.7
Science Knowledge and Understanding:
It encourages students to explore and experiment with eight scientific concepts:
Ramps and Screws (inclined plane)
Knock Knock (Wheels and Axles)
Start Your Engine (kinetic and potential energy)
Who is Stronger (friction)
Measuring a Force (forces)
Can't Move Me! (Simple Pulleys)
Leave it to Levers (levers)
Gearing Up (gears and cogs)
Using their knowledge of simple machines, students will design a way of obtaining food and water to be delivered to their hut. The final project will be presented to their class as a slideshow and orally explained. Students will evaluate their own work with online assessments that are submitted to the teacher via email. The teacher can view the assessments online and export the data to a spreadsheet for comparison or collation.
The unit of work address the following NSW outcomes:
English - WS 2.12, RS2.6, RS 2.7
Science Knowledge and Understanding:
- simple machines can make moving loads easier
- make accurate observations and describe these observations
- use graphics, models and written data to record the exploration of different ideas for design proposals and to assist making
- gain satisfaction in their efforts to investigate, to design and make in using technology
- 8 Researching to explore and discover
- 9 Manipulating to explore and discover
- 18 Clarifying a design task
- 19 Exploring ideas
- 31 Evaluating chosen technology
- understands the purpose of a browser
- uses and understands the freatures of a browser (back, forward, stop, search, refresh, history, home buttons, address bar, loading status ... )
- uses and understands hyperlinks and navigation buttons
- chooses appropriate sites from a search
- interprets information from a website
- determines whether information is current, accurate and reliable
- uses freehand drawing tools - pencils, straight and curved lines
- uses shape tools / objects
- uses paint / fill with colour, spray can, airbrush, eraser
- deletes, crops, copies and duplicates selected objects
- uses line properties
- creates a simple slideshow with text and images
- inserts slides
- chooses appropriate slide design and layout
- adds sound
- understands that a presentation is clear, concise and logica
Quality Teaching
Deep Knowledgesimple machines, Kidpix,
Deep Understanding
design simple machine(s) to perform simple task(s) and the pregramme, Kidpix
Problematic Knowledge
The task requires students to design and present solutions to the gathering of food and water, and the transportation back to the hut.
Higher Order Thinking
This task requires that students organise, reorganise, apply analyse synthesise and evaluate their knowledge of simple machine.
Metalanguage
Use of but not limited to: website, drop down menu, submit, analyse, experiment, demonstration, hyperlink, download file, observation, record, avatar, lever, pulley, axel, wheel, kinetic and potential energy....
Substantive Communication
Student must regularly engage in conversations with their team, peer, perhaps parents and teacher as they refine their designs.
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Explicit Quality Criteria
Students are provided with a rubric which they will mark that explains exactly what is expected at the conclusion of the project. They have the first page of Lost that explains their task always available on the website.
Engagement
Most students most of the time will be engaged in reading, experimenting, recording, observing and designing.
High Expectations
Teacher lets students know that much is expected and attainable with small steps. Take a risk and try be amazed where it will lead.
Social Support
By using peer chosen groups, social support is given to students. It is expected that the teacher is continually circulating and supporting. Differentiation is provided on the website with avatars that can read for students when chosen.
Student Self Regulation
Students demonstrate autonomy and initiative as they work together and through the eight experiments, online assessment tasks, and design task.
Student Direction
The experiments are designed so students can exercise direction of the selection of activities, the means and manner that they will be done.
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Background Knowledge
Students are familiar with the tools of Kidpix but now they will be applying them to a design task.
Cultural Knowledge
Many students help their parents at home with simple tasks that use machines e.g. a child may help their mechanical parent with the repair of a lawn mower. This knowledge can be applied in the design phase of the project.
Knowledge Integration
In class they are studying Movement and Energy - their investigations with the lego sets of levers and pulleys, gears etc. will used at they both engage in the experiments from the website and design their own machines in Kidpix
Inclusivity
The task requires the participation of all students usually in a group of three.
Connectedness
The task relys on the application of school knowledge (the working of simple machines) to a fictional (real life) problem of getting food and water from the source to the hut.
Narrative
To enrich their understanding, students will write and present orally with a presentation aid (Kidpix) to their class.
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