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Mindmap: Growing our own wheat lessons

Overview
Year two students are currently studying a unit of work in the Technologies- Design and Technologies knowledge and understanding curriculum in Food and fibre productions. This lesson will be the third lesson out of the five lesson program. Students will be growing their own wheat to put themselves in the shoes of a farmer after they have been introduced, in previous lessons, to farms and animals and plants that are on farms that provide us with food. They will have covered a lesson on wheat and the process of growing and producing wheat into flour for our food.

F-2 Content Description
Food and fibre production: Explore how plants and animals are grown for food, clothing and shelter and how food is selected and prepared for healthy eating.

Elaboration:
Exploring which plants and animals can provide food or materials for clothing and shelter and what basic needs those plants and animals have.

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Perth Zoo

Subject – Digital Technologies

Year Level – 4

Strand – Digital Technologies Knowledge and Understanding

4.1 Recognise factors that impact on the design of products, services and environments including the role of designers and technologists to meet local community needs

4.2 Investigate the effectiveness and sustainability of a range of technologies, materials, systems, tools and equipment that support local community needs

Links to other learning areas:

English – students are required to report on the habitat, technologies and environments that surround their chosen animal in the Perth Zoo.

Science – Students must research into specific habitats, native animals, diets and appearance which links to biological science.

Social Science – students must report on the nature of life in the Zoo and post arguments for or against keeping animals in captivity, this integrates food webs and natural systems of wild animals.

Resources
http://perthzoo.wa.gov.au/animals-plants/
Dreamweaver: http://www.adobe.com/au/products/dreamweaver.html

Activity:
Using their Ipads students use the Perth Zoo link to choose their animal, they report on the animals habitat, diet and appearance. Once this information is gathered and written in report form on their Ipads, students research what technologies, structures, equipment, designed products, environments and enclosures are used to house these animals in the Perth Zoo. Students create a web blog (linking the information they found) and report on how to safely move an animal from its natural habitat into the Zoo and what equipment, technologies etc., are required to keep the animal safe and secure.

This activity can be stretched out over three lessons. Planning, Investigating and Evaluating.

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Science kids!

Enjoy a wide range of fun science lesson plans featuring educational activities for kids, ideas for teachers, free online resources and more to  help bring interactive, hands on science to your home or classroom.

Subject: Science and technology

Level: K – 7

Strand: Knowledge and Understanding
Process and Production Skills
Key concepts and ideas

Sub-strand: Process and Production Skills

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Link to the Resource: http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/

Cross curriculum priorities and general capabilities:
Sustainability
Animals

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Links to other learning areas:
English
Science
Society and Environment
The Arts
Technology and Enterprise

A classroom activity using this resource:

Making a paper air plane and glider
Making a helicopter
Spiders
Worms

How to use the resource:

This is a New Zealand based website, which is colourful, bright, fun and extremely easy to navigate around. I love this website! It offers a wide range of ideas and lessons, for K-7.

Science kids covers  topics such as earth, animals, technology, water, biology, chemistry and  space. The science lesson plans and activities are perfect for teaching students the basics of science in a fun and interactive way.

The website is set out with the links for each different topic, you click on the topic you wish to do and it then comes up with lots of different lesson plans and activities.

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Maths: Measurement, Estimating, Graphing, Weight, Time

English: Procedure writing, planning, investigation report, research

The Arts: Shape and design, Graphs