Lesson summary

Students bring together their ideas about how they use electricity and discuss alternatives to this use.

understand there are some things for which we depend on electricity and for other things we can come up with alternatives.

Lesson guides and printables

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 1 Science:

People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things (ACSHE022)

Year 1 English:

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams (ACELY1661)

Year 2 Science:

Earth’s resources, including water, are used in a variety of ways (ACSSU032)
People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things (ACSHE035)

Year 2 English:

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671)

Syllabus Outcomes: EN1-2A, ST1-11LW, ST1-9ES.