Meaningful Moments: Name, Place, Plant, Animal, Food Game

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creativity
• collaboration
• communication
• social skills

Year 4 English:

• Listen for key points and information to carry out tasks and contribute to discussions, acknowledging another opinion, linking a response to the topic, and sharing and extending ideas and information (AC9E4LY02)

Year 5 English:

• use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea (AC9E5LY02)

Year 6 English:

• use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (AC9E6LY02)

Relevant parts of Year 4 English achievement standards: Students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including stories. 

Relevant parts of Year 5 English achievement standards: Students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.

Relevant parts of Year 6 English achievement standards: Students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.

NSW Syllabus outcomes: EN2-10C

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability. 

• One copy of the Student Worksheet for each group
• Pens
• Stopwatch/timer.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - teachers will need to oversee the game and assist students with calculating scores.

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.