Year Level: 7A period 3

Lesson Number: 46

Date: 23.8.16

Unit Title:
Biological Location: Penola Catholic College Glenroy
Science
Topic:
Classroom Management Strategy
Classification- 3.2 Unlocking Meaning Raise
hand
to
gather
students
Patterns in Scientific Language Science
attention and silence in class
Quest 7
Make my set of class expectations
known to students
Seating plan put in place
Resources/Location/Special
VCAA
Considerations
Science / Levels 7 and 8 / Science
Classroom
Understanding
/
Biological
Workbook
sciences/VCSSU091
Text book
Descriptor: There are differences within and
between groups of organisms classification
Worksheets-classification
helps organise this diversity
Elaborations:
Dinosaur activity

Grouping a variety of organisms on the

10 ice cream containers x 13 toys in
basis of similarities and differences in
each
particular features
Butchers paper

Classifying using hierarchical systems,

Textas
for example, kingdom, phylum, class,
order, family, genus, species

Using scientific conventions for naming

species

Using provided keys to identify

organisms surveyed in a local habitat

References/Resources
Science Quest 7
Learning Intentions
Students will learn:
Identify how classification
performed?

Success Criteria
After this lesson, students will be able
is to:
Be able to demonstrate how and why
classification is performed

PERFORMANCE AREA
Engage
Fosters positive
relations
Stimulates
interest and
curiosity
Supports students
to make connects
to past learning
experiences

Explore
Teacher presents
challenging tasks
Provides tools and
procedures
Challenges
misconceptions

Explain
Provides
opportunities for
students to
demonstrate their
current level of
understanding
Assists students to
represent their
ideas

Elaborate
Refining students
understanding
Build the students
ability to transfer
and generalise
their learning

1:45pm-12:288pm (1.43 hrs)

Comments

Whole Group: Tuning in engaging student interest

(13 minutes)
Learning intentions, success criteria, breakdown of the
lesson and homework displayed on word doc on smart
board.
Formative assessment: To demonstrate current
understanding and how much students have understood
in previous lesson. In pairs discuss and note down some
ideas on (re-view of last lesson):
What is classification?
Why do we classify?
Whole Group: Shared Experience (20 minutes)
Go through characteristics of living things (Diagram on
page 36 of 3.2)
And write definitions for characteristics of living, nonliving and dead.
*Allows students to be introduced into the first category
of classifying living organisms, firstly they must be able to
identify traits of living organisms.
Whole Group: Explicit Teaching (20 minutes)
Formative assessment: Is it alive worksheet to be
completed and stuck in book, so I can mark upon book
collections.
Continue on through characteristics of taxonomy and 5
kingdoms.
*As students have now been introduced to new
information they have the opportunity to demonstrate
their understanding as well as help consolidate by
completing a worksheet. This will also bring them into a
better understanding of what taxonomy is and the 5
kingdoms as we then delve into the characteristics of
each.
Problem solving: How do we classify?
Small Group: Student groups: (40 minutes)
Classifying the toys
Students are to classify the toys and draw a dichotomous
key to show the way the students have classified them all.
Students will be given textas and butchers paper.
The key concept:
Students will notice that each student group will have
classified differently based on the patterns they would
have recognised between the toys.
Plenary: Designed Task to bring all the learning together.

Evaluate
Integrate evidence
from each phase,
formally recording
students progress
Support students
to reflect on their
learning process
Identify future
learning

Whole Group: Shared / Reflection (10 minutes)

Formative assessment: To summarize learning or to
test if learning has occurred ask students key questions of
the lesson:
How do we classify?
Students to complete Homework Questions 3.4- Core (17), Modified (1,3,6,7), Extension (1-7,13),