Week Six Lesson TwoRESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

“How will you present this to council?”

Queensland Curriculum (Senior Science)

Aquatic Practices (2014) E1.2 Oceanography and riparian processes shape aquatic environments and river processesE2: Ecosystems Concepts and ideas E2.1 Aquatic ecosystems include biotic and abiotic components.E3.1 Marine and freshwater pests and threats, including pollution, impact on aquatic environments, ways aquatic industries impact on their environment, e.g. overfishing, agricultural runoff and human erosion activities

Student ActivitiesStudents will develop their proposal and related materials depending on their direction of project. The teacher will observe and provide direction or the students to consider in their proposal documents.The development may require fencing or other designs, if students have developed a plan in line with this proposal the document will need to consider, designs and community involvement

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Student ActivitiesDepending on the direction of the proposal the document may require the development of a planting schedule, this planting schedule document will cover;the plant species, key locations for suggested planting sites, identification of local stakeholders and aboriginal land holder groups, a maintenance plan to the management of the planting sites (weeding and watering),identified issues and suggestions for the mitigation of identified issues

Processes involved in the development of proposal

Report

Key locationsPlanting

designs and identification

Ongoing management

and mitigation of issues

Assessments

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Student Activities Cont..Identifying resources and issues.Develop way to mitigate issues such as managing ongoing maintenance such as costs and other issues that have been identified.If students have chosen another direction guidance and additional resources will be suggested by the teacher to be considered by the group. Guidance will by scaffolded to help the students use their own critical thinking skills, open questions will be listed on the board to aid all groups of learners to identify what information needs to be considered.

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Student Activities Cont..These open questions will include general rules of considering a proposal such as, ‘What information and data do you think is important to your proposal?’‘How are you going to justify your proposal? What arguments/persuasive skills will you use?’ ‘How can you present the information that gives impact and engages the audience? Who will do what? Identify group roles and responsibilities for the presentation that meet your timeline commitments’.

Student Activities Cont..The minimum requirements will include a proposed idea, an implementation plan and minimising issues and ongoing maintenance.The teacher will provide a short demonstration of a talk aloud timeline to show students the thinking processes needed to correctly manage their time for this project. The students will be given time to develop their own timeline which will need to be submitted at the end of the lesson for evidence of learning and DoL 5 critical thinking skills regarding considering planning requirements.

Processes involved with project development

Week 5

Resource development and peer review

Week 6

Field Expert to provide advice and suggest directions

Week 8

Review and further development of the proposal for council submission

ICT Resources

Video – Camera and computer editing, programs to continually develop proposal,Movies,Prezi,Weebly, websites or wiki space, Timeline programs

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AssessmentsWeek 5 - The level of involvement of the students and teacher observations will be noted and used toward grading on participation and critical review of their peersStudents will create their proposal for a field expert review (week 8) in preparation for presentation to council (week 10).Students will be required to develop and submit a timeline of expected completion dates for the next 4 weeks to the teacher.

DoL – Dimensions of LearningDoL 4 Using knowledge meaningfully Invention Decisions making Problem solving

DoL 5 Creative and critical thinking Be accurate and seek accuracy Take a position Self-regulated thinking and planning

Teacher notesStudents will be required to develop and submit a timeline of expected completion dates for the next 4 weeks to the teacher. This timeline will allow the teacher to identify groups who may not meet the week 10 submission and may need additional planning guidance.This will ensure that overall project timelines are meet and students develop self-regulated thinking skills by asking themselves questions such as, what do you need to do and by when? The student produced timeline will be used as evidence of planning and the overall assessment of this unit.