Lesson summary
Students collect data completing a spot audit on all the lights that are on in their classroom and the school.
Learning Goals:
- data collection can help find out if electricity is being wasted in the school.
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Lesson details
Curriculum Mapping
Australian Curriculum content descriptions:
Year 1 Mathematics:
- Represent data with objects and drawings where one object or drawing represents one data value. Describe the displays (ACMSP263)
Year 1 Science:
- People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things (ACSHE022)
Year 1 English:
- Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions (ACELY1656)
Year 2 Mathematics:
- Collect, check and classify data (ACMSP049)
Year 2 Science:
- Earth’s resources, including water, are used in a variety of ways (ACSSU032)
Year 2 English:
- Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others’ ideas in discussions (ACELY1666)
Syllabus Outcomes: ST1-11LW, ST1-9ES, EN1-1A, MA1‑1WM, MA1‑2WM, MA1‑3WM, MA1-17SP.
Indoor or outdoor activity:Â Indoor/Outdoor
Time required:Â 45 mins
Level of teacher scaffolding:Â Lead the students in a preliminary discussion around energy use. Take the students on a walk around the school looking for lights, including in staff only rooms.
Resources required
- Digital projector if available
- Print out of Student Worksheet
- Clipboards and pencils or portable tablet
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