Backyard Bush Blitz - Drawing Insects

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

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
• 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)

Year 5 Science:

• Examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats (AC9S5U01)
• Write and create texts to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S5I06)

Year 6 English:

• 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)
• Write and create texts to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S6I06)

Years 5 & 6 Visual Arts:

• explore ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are combined to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in visual arts across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts (AC9AVA6E01)
• select and present documentation of visual arts practice, and display artworks in informal and/or formal settings (AC9AVA6P01)

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

General capabilities:  Critical and creative thinking, Literacy

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 English achievement standards: Students contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives

Relevant parts of Year 5 Science achievement standards: Students analyse how the form of living things enables them to function in their environments. Students communicate their ideas and findings using multimodal texts.

Relevant parts of Year 6 English achievement standards: Students contribute actively to class and group discussions, using a variety of strategies for effect

Relevant parts of Year 6 Science achievement standards: Students describe and predict the effect of environmental changes on individual living things. Students construct multimodal texts to communicate ideas, methods and findings.

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students use visual conventions and visual arts practices to express a personal view in their artworks. They demonstrate different techniques and processes in planning and making artworks.

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

• A1 colouring paper (to form the background for a classroom mural)
• Bush Blitz Slides
• Clipboard
• Devices capable of accessing the internet
• Paint
• Paintbrushes
• Paper
• Pencils
• Plasticine/clay/playdough (enough for each student)
• Scientific Drawing Guidelines

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

• Communication
• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Cultural understanding

Time required: 3 hours 15 mins (over several lessons)

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – creating the resource/background habitat between classes

This is an original Cool+ lesson.