Backyard Bush Blitz - Collection Methods

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 5 English:

• Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include relevant, elaborated ideas, sequencing ideas and using complex sentences, specialist and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features (AC9E5LY07)
• 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 5 Science:

• Examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats (AC9S5U01)
• Plan and conduct repeatable investigations to answer questions,  including, as appropriate, deciding the variables to be changed,  measured and controlled in fair tests; describing potential risks; planning  for the safe use of equipment and materials; and identifying required  permissions to conduct investigations on Country/Place (AC9S5I02)
• Use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable precision, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S5I03)

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)
• Identify responses to characters and events in literary texts, drawn from historical, social or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E6LE01)

Year 6 Science:

• Investigate the physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions (AC9S6U01)
• Plan and conduct repeatable investigations to answer questions,  including, as appropriate, deciding the variables to be changed,  measured and controlled in fair tests; describing potential risks; planning  for the safe use of equipment and materials; and identifying required  permissions to conduct investigations on Country/Place (AC9S6I02)
• Use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable  precision, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S5I03)

Syllabus outcomes: EN3-4A, EN3-8D, EN3-1A, EN3-2A, ST3-10LW, ST3-4WS, ST3-11LW

General capabilities: Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding, Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 English achievement standards: Students use language features including topic specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.

Relevant parts of Year 5 Science achievement standards: Students explain how the form and behaviour of living things enables survival. Students identify variables to be changed and measured.

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.

Relevant parts of Year 6 Science achievement standards: Students explain how changes in physical conditions affect living things. Students construct representations to organise and process data and information and describe patterns, trends and relationships

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Backyard Bush Blitz – Years 5 & 6

• Device capable of presenting a website to the class
• Optional – Collection Methods Images
• Optional – buying insect trap methods – see Part C, Step 4
• Student access to devices with internet connection
• Student Worksheets – one copy per group
• Workbooks

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

• Communication
• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Cultural understanding

Time required: 130+ mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium to High depending on class needs. Mixed level writing and designing of species collection methods

This is an original Cool+ lesson.