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This is Google Slides/PowerPoint STEM Lesson that can be used all at once or as a series of lessons. This Lesson explains the learning intention as WALT (We Are Learning To). This Lesson uses the LAUNCH cycle for STEM and design. There are 6 video examples of a Rube Goldeberg Machine (including some from films to engage students) and a series of questions for teachers to prompt students thinking. There is also a link to a reading about Rube Goldberg Machines that could be used as a reading comp

The slides provided is an outline/template of an information report. It is one slide with links to 6 separate other slides for students to work in groups. On the first slide there are videos of how to use this one video for teacher usage and one for students. The next slide has a place for teachers to insert the students names and divide their class into groups. Each Group Number has a hyperlink to a separate Google Slides template of an information report including classification, description,

Goal setting is a great way to start off a school year, a school term or new semester. Research says having the goals visible will help them achieve the goals more quickly.Here are some travel themed goal sheets for the students to decorate - make the airline their name or an alliteration with their name. This is a great talking piece to use with parents at meet the parent night or parent teacher interviews having the child share their goals with their parents. Alternatively you can have your c

This checklist of success criteria is for students to use when writing their information report but also as a tool when they go back and check it over (to help them be more accountable and give them agency) I created this with my grade 3/4 class after teaching for 4 -5 weeks about the text type/genre information reports. When giving my students a success criteria for a marked piece of work, I find they produce better quality work.

This is a Google slides lesson walking a class through the meaning of ethics with 3 learning intentions and an explanation of ethics written on one slide followed by a brief 4 minute Youtube video explaining Ethics and a prompt for think, pair share. There are then prompting questions and thoughts for pondering ALL linked with the 5/6 Australian curriculum for ethical capabilities. Then there follows with 24 slides of images to prompt discussion of whether they are ethical or not - Things for t

A goal sheet for the start of the school year or start of term. For any year level. There is one with lines for the students to write their learning goals or one without so the students could draw a picture or draw a picture or write. This went with my class theme of Hollywood at the start of the year. I had the students include: 1-2 reading goals, 1-2 writing goals, 2 goals in mathematics, 1 social and emotional goal and one personal goal eg make a new friend or go up a level in swimming or pia

There is a Information Text on Dinosaurs and then there is a list of information report text features. Students need to locate those within the text eg bold font, diagrams, headings etc.

This is a persuasive text about embracing and celebrating diversity in a classroom/school. This is good if you are teaching about diversity OR you are wanting something for Harmony Day or cultural diversity week (MARCH) or something that is related to racism. You can use this as a mentor text or to deconstruct the text as a class, independently or students in pairs.

Learning Goal sheet with a place for the child to write their name eg Michelle's Learning Goals Theme of Dr Seuss's The Place You'll Go book. Used this at the start of the year after reading the book to my grade 5/6 class. This could be used for any age group. For students not writing yet, they could draw pictures in the hot air balloon.

Perfect ANZAC DAY activity for a reading and/or writing lesson for procedural texts. It comes with instructions for deconstruction/annotating the procedure AND reading comprehension questions (thin & thick) (closed & open ended questions) that are explained.

These are labels that students can cut out and use for deconstruction the text structure of an information report. Print on white paper and have students cut and colour the labels or print on coloured paper