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**__Topic:__ Australian Animals **

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** __Subject area:__ **

** (All descriptions of each strand, of which students will gain from completing this educational program, are below next to Scope and Sequence links) **

English (reading, writing, speaking and listening),  Society and Environment (habitats),  Science (life and Living),  Technology and Enterprise (Skills for IT)

** __Year level:__ ** 4

__** Curriculum alignment **__ __:__ (Download Scope & Sequence PDFs for above subject areas)

**Reading:** Students will understand - that texts are to entertain and evoke emotion through myths and structured poems; main ideas are developed through the interconnection of plot, character and setting; strategies for sharing information including deciding which text features to use in a presentation.


 * Writing: ** Students will understand - that writers create texts for different purposes including: to entertain through fables or cinquain; sound, visual and meaning patterns to spell multi-syllabic words; the text structures and language features of imaginative texts including narratives and cinquain; how to structure information texts including instructions and reports, and argument texts including advertisements and book reviews.


 * Biological Science:** Students will understand - that all living things, including plants and animals, depend on each other and the [|environment] to survive, an animals Habitual status, what they eat, how they behave etc.


 * IT:** Students will understand how technology ideas and practices are developed (through powerpoint) to display information gathered through research; how to research from various sources; use internet safely.

__ Teachers: __ Scott Blachford, Angela Miceli, Kelly Oliver, Josh Wilkes, Rachel Calvaresi (All first year students at Murdoch University WA)

Introduction Animals are existent in every child's life. Learning and understanding various types of animals within a certain country or continent, immerses children into their own culture enabling for a better understanding of what is around them. Teaching australian animals to students could be a difficult task, however, with the cross-curricular format of which we have selected, it enables teachers to develop students understanding of australian animals from various types of angles, whether being through story, research or life experience (zoo) they are being educated to understand at a greater depth. The project has been set for students to work on over an extended period of time and will therefore engage their knowledge and skills in technology processes as well as what they have learned about the over-arching topic, australian animals. This program has been created by pre-service teachers in a Teaching and Learning with Technology unit, for qualified teachers to use in their classrooms for learning purposes.

Task Overview The activity we have provided is a research task on australian animals and is to be completed over approximately twelve days, however, can go over or under this suggested time. Throughout the program, students will research their favourite Australian animal from an Australian story book, gaining information from internet research and a zoo excursion whilst logging their findings in the provided journal pages provided. By lesson 10, students will begin creating presentations via Microsoft PowerPoint and then present their findings and research in lesson twelve. This presentation is what will be marked and used for reporting and assessing purposes.

Docker, L (2012)

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Docker, L. (2012). Kookaburra [image] www.flickr.com