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= Activity Day-by-Day Plan =

Day One – Classroom conversation, (0.5-1 hour)
‘What is the ocean?’ ‘What lives in the ocean?’

Day Two – Research Report, (1 hour – 1.5)
Children choose an animal, they are given the opportunity to use the internet to research their chosen animal and complete the research report worksheet or power point. What they eat, where they live, what they do, a small detailed picture.

Day Three – Trip to Aqua
Assign groups of about 5-6 students, Give fish names eg. Dorys, Nemos, Crushes, Gills, Bruces. Have a teacher or helper for each group and give the group of children a camera each. They are to take photos of as many different animals that they can find. When the excursion is over the class will print out all of the photos they have taken and make a large collage.



Day Four – Eight - In the same groups that the children were in for their trip to aqua complete the following group work and different station. (2hours)
Each day give each group a different activity to do.


 * 1) Origami – making a fish
 * 2) Planning their diorama, drawing example, label, write down what they will need.
 * 3) Painting their boxes
 * 4) Drawing their sea animals
 * EVERY DAY EACH STUDENT IS TO FILL OUT A JOURNAL, SAYING WHAT THEY COMPLETED THAT DAY AND WHAT THEY PLAN TO DO TOMORROW.**

Day Nine – Start constructing dioramas (1.5 – 2 hours)
Students start to hang their animals that they have cut out, laminated and threaded wool through. Also start using craft supplies to decorate and create their sea environment.

Day Ten – Educational rewards. (3 - 3 .5 hours)
Students that have finished their dioramas will do allowed to watch the film, Finding Nemo. Once the film is completed students are to write and draw a report of the main events throughout the movie. Give students an A3 page separated into 10 squares. The students can draw a picture of the event and write at least 2-3 sentences of what occurred.

= Curriculum Frameworks =

**__English Curriculum Framework - Focus on Outcomes:__**

 * 1 - Understanding Language
 * 3 - Conventions
 * 4 - Processes and Strategies
 * 7 - Viewing
 * 8 - Reading
 * 9 - Writing

**Science Curriculum Framework - Focus on Outcomes:**

 * 1 - (Working Scientifically) Investigating
 * 8 - (Understanding Concepts) Life and Living

**The Arts Curriculum Framework - Focus on Outcomes:**

 * 1 - Arts Ideas
 * 2 - Arts Skills and Processes
 * 3 - Art Responses

= Policies = ====**__Excursion Policy-__** Covers what should be done before and during an out of school excursion, as well as containing permission slips, concent forms to be filled out and given to the principal, helper forms and medical forms. Everything you need to prepare a successful excursion is in this document.====

[[file:Policy_Excursions.pdf]]
====**__Duty of Care -__** This policy covers your resbonsibilites as a teacher to care for the students, and what precautions that you should be taking when planing and taking the children on out of school excursions.====

[[file:Policy_Duty_of_CareStudents.pdf]]
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__**Excel**__
This excel spreadsheet is for the teacher when they come to taking money from the student for the excursion

__Powerpoints__
This Powerpoint is the template power point that can be given to students, after they have opened and saved this template in their own files under their name eg. AshleighAPowerpoint, they can then research information and pictures to answer the questions that are required.

This Powerpoint is what the students finished product should look like, they will be shown this before they start their own to get an idea of what is being asked of them.

[[file:Clown Fish example powerpoint.ppt]]
= Websites = Aqwa information

Ocean Lesson Plans

[|Facebook Group]

= Videos = The //National Geographic Documentary// is on Sea life and the Great Barrier Reef, This will help with the studies on the on //Finding Nemo// activities. National Geographic Documentary

The Movie //Finding Nemo// is apart of the one of the activities, this online site gives a brief description of what the movies is about. Finding Nemo Information

The Youtube video //Making Your Own Ocean Scene// is a geat introduction into how to make a diorama and gve the children some ideas of what they can include and how. []

How to make an origami fish youtube video //Learn Origami, Make a Paper Fish.// []

= Social Networking Sites = Facebook group Room 21 - Sealife, This site is used at home by the students and their parents to look over what work they have been doing in the classroom. It is an oportunity for the students at school to upload pictures of their work and write about how they are feeling/coping etc. and for them to go home and show their parents their progress. This is also a tool that the teacher can use to communicate with parents letting parents know about what they could be doing outside of home to help their children, what needs to be brought into class etc. []

= References = Linda, (2011). Origami Fish. Paper Fish Unknown, (2009). Primary School. Perth Education Unknown, (2006). Finding Nemo. Finding Nemo Unknown, (2012). Ocean Life. Fish, Ocean, Wallpapers