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Students are introduced to the topic of energy by analysing research articles and creating a Wordle cloud. Wordle is a free word art tool that crunches any chunk of text and produces a visual representation of the content. The resulting word could emphasise the most common words by amplifying their size based on frequency. Students will increase their knowledge of subject-specific vocabulary and use this knowledge to create an energy limerick.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

understand that our high energy use is impacting our environment
understand how to analyse a news article to increase their knowledge of vocabulary and language features to build an understanding of the content.

Success criteria:

Students can...

know how energy consumption affects our environment
analyse articles using a digital tool
create a limerick.

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Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 7 English:

Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors (ACELA1531)
Create literary texts that adapt stylistic features encountered in other texts, for example, narrative viewpoint, structure of stanzas, contrast and juxtaposition (ACELT1625)

Year 7 Science:

Some of Earth’s resources are renewable, but others are non-renewable (ACSSU116)

Year 8 English:

Analyse how the text structures and language features of persuasive texts, including media texts, vary according to the medium and mode of communication (ACELA1543)
Create literary texts that draw upon text structures and language features of other texts for particular purposes and effects (ACELT1632)

Year 8 Science:

Scientific knowledge changes as new evidence becomes available, and some scientific discoveries have significantly changed people’s understanding of the world (ACSHE134)

Syllabus Outcomes: SC4-15LW, SC4-12ES, EN3-1A, EN4-1A, EN4-4B, EN4-6C.

Time needed: 45 minutes

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium

Tablets/computers
Internet
Wordle (https://www.wordle.net/)

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