Rainbowteaching

COMPLETE 10 WEEK UNIT OF WORK: Includes detailed, hands-on and interactive lessons (venn diagrams, T-charts, planting seeds experiment, role play etc). Links to online activities/games and relevant YouTube clips. Detailed formative assessment and summative 'design and make' task with accompanying assessment rubric which can be edited, printed and used for your class. This unit aims to bring student prior knowledge to a conscious level, making explicit all the basic needs of living things. Thro

In this unit the students will create pieces of art, which relate to the theme of Living Things. This unit will allow students to experiment in representing nature through various forms of artistic techniques. Students will have the opportunity to look closely at creatures in a microenvironment including a ladybird, spiders in their homes and creating a 3D wire sculpture of an insect that will based on previous sketches. The students will then complete a variety of artworks focusing on Australia

In this unit, students learn about the school and home environment and recognise ways that they can care for it. The unit will explore the concepts of reducing, reusing and recycling. The children will explore and describe what makes up their school environment. They will identify ways that they already care for the school and they will also identify ways that they are damaging the environment. The students will investigate the types of rubbish found on the playground and devise a way of testin

A comprehensive ten week program. In this unit, the students will investigate transport. The students will identify and explore in-depth, different types of transport and will categorise them. They will compare and contrast various modes of transport throughout history and experiment creating unique modes of transport of the future. Students will investigate various transport problems such as how to transport cargo to and from different countries. They will examine why vehicles need wheels throu

In this unit, students learn about:  everyday words for location, position and direction  uses of places in the local area  natural, built and heritage features in the immediate environment and in other areas  adaptations to environments to meet needs  changes to the immediate environment as a result of meeting needs and wants  personal and shared values and responsibilities towards features, sites, places and environments