Timeline Week 1 Entry event Tuesday 12pm whole stage in hall, STEM teachers explain and introduce. – – Staff may like to display STEM timetable/unit overview in their classrooms. KWLHQ students complete individually and then combine to make class version. – KWLHQ sheet. AHS staff and students visit to APS to present information on the care of chickens. Students to use attached note taking sheet. Assessment feedback and reflection – To be completed after AHS visit. All feedback and reflection sheets to be kept for final assessment. Week 2 English text deconstruction – Read and analyse L9 text Earthworms with class. The purpose of this activity is to highlight and discuss the features of a big book which students will need to focus on when creating their care book. analysis sheet earthworms Chicken Care Book – allocate students into groups. No more than 3 per group discuss criteria for chicken care book using rubric ‘sound’ STEM groups begin using scanned texts, high school and self located resources read, highlight and re-write PowerPoint’s – information they will need for their care book using the attached RUBRIC. Teachers may print sections of texts or allow students to refer to them on collaboration. Copies of resources are already in collaboration.
Timeline Week 1 Entry event – Tuesday 12pm – whole stage in hall, STEM teachers explain and introduce. Staff may like to display STEM timetable/unit overview in their classrooms. KWLHQ – students complete individually and then combine to make class version. KWLHQ sheet. AHS staff and students visit to APS to present information on the care of chickens. Students to use attached note taking sheet. Assessment – feedback and reflection To be completed after AHS visit. All feedback and reflection sheets to be kept for final assessment. Week 2 English – text deconstruction Read and analyse L9 text Earthworms with class. The purpose of this activity is to highlight and discuss the features of a big book which students will need to focus on when creating their care book. analysis sheet earthworms Chicken Care Book – allocate students into groups. No more than 3 per group discuss ‘sound’ criteria for chicken care book using rubric STEM groups begin using scanned texts, high school PowerPoint’s and self – located resources read, highlight and re-write information they will need for their care book using the attached RUBRIC. Teachers may print sections of texts or allow students to refer to them on collaboration. Copies of resources are already in collaboration.
a-AlstonvillePS-Chook_Farmers.docx