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 * * This page provides additional information to assist teachers (ourselves) in this lesson. **

** The target audience is ** : Year 5 class of 24 students.


 * Year level- ** Year 5, stage 3.


 * Subject area- ** Environments. Learning about Rainforest's and specializing in The Amazon.


 * Timing considerations- **

Lesson Plan 1 - 45 minutes Lesson plan 2 - 45 minutes Lesson plan 3 - 45 minutes Lesson assignment - home assignment, should take a few hours. (Assignment may be completed in class - additional hours during the week & in class spare time)


 * Useful websites: **
 * Teachers can make useful rubrics on this website:
 * (http://rubistar.4teachers.org)


 * This website opens the board of studies outcomes on what to teach year 5 stage 3 students. Flick to page 31 to view the content this lesson consists:
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 * Videos that help teachers find useful information. (For example on rainforests).
 * [|www.teachertube.com]


 * Learning about rainforests:
 * [|www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/]

OUTCOMES AND INDICATORS


 * Relationship to syllabus documents: **

Patterns, Places and Locations:
 * ENS3.5 **
 * Demonstrates an understanding of the interconnectedness between Australia and global environments and how individuals and groups can act in an ecologically responsible manner. **

Indictators: // uses maps and globes to locate global and Australian reference points, eg hemispheres, political states, lines of latitude and longitude, mountains and oceans, physical and cultural regions // // • locates and describes patterns of human involvement in environmental areas of Australia, eg human use of rainforest areas or river systems such as the Murray- Darling Basin // // • explains the effects of human changes on an environment, evaluating the positive and negative aspects of these changes // // • locates places on a globe that they hear about or view in written, media and electronic texts // // • draws accurate sketch maps of a known area and includes title, key, scale and direction // // • evaluates a variety of ways of addressing environmental problems in Australia and other countries // // • uses geographical terminology and tools to locate and investigate environments // // • investigates an environmental issue of local, State, national, regional or global significance. //

OTHER INFORMATION The lesson plan 4 will be completed as homework in the form of an building assignment. When building this rainforest you must research other information on rainforests to get a further developed knowledge on what is in a rainforest.