Containers for Change WA - Change it Up!

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

• creativity
• collaboration
• communication
• community engagement
• ethical understanding
• leadership

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions - English

• Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation (AC9E5LY06)

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

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards: For particular purposes and audiences, they share, develop and expand on ideas and opinions, using supporting details from topics or texts. They use different text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They use language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice. They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing and expanding on ideas with supporting details from topics or texts. They use paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas. They use language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features. They spell using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.

Western Australian Curriculum - Year 5, English

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704) 

• Device to display videos and digital resources
• Whiteboard or poster paper for class brainstorm
• Worksheet: Create a Change (one per pair)
• Computers and tablets for students who may create podcasts or videos as well as additional resources such as headsets and microphones (if available)
• Computers for students creating written texts (posters, newsletter articles, speeches etc.)

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - As students will be working on various types of media simultaneously, it will be important to roam and check in with groups, helping them consolidate their ideas and solve problems as they face challenges or obstacles.