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To scaffold the students’ creation of a rich multimodal text and to consolidate their knowledge of koalas as built up in the previous lessons.  ||  ** Science & Technology  ** ** LT S2.3 ** Identifies and describes the structure and function of living things and ways in which living things interact with other living things and their environment - Write s about the diet, appearance, life-cycles and habitat of Koalas in the PowerPoint presentation. ** English ** ** WS2.12 ** Uses joined letters when writing in NSW Foundation Style and demonstrates basic desktop publishing skills on the computer - Selects and inserts graphics or illustrations to enhance text meaning - Investigates other forms of media e.g. slideshows, multimedia || · Koala Presentation Draft Sheets for each student (Appendix D)   · Computers (at least one per pair of students) · IWB · Instructions sheets that contain explicit criteria for each student · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">The students will have their information report about koalas written previously <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">The teacher begins the lesson with the students sitting on the floor in front of her/him. The teacher begins by explaining that today’s lesson will follow on from the previous lesson and on their ‘Koala: A Native Australian Animal unit’. The teacher explains that today’s lesson is specifically going to provide students with examples on how to create an effective PowerPoint presentation to present the content researched over the previous lessons on Koalas. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Explain to the students that in this lesson they will be creating their own rich multimodal texts. Put the multimodal text studied in the previous lesson up on the board and recap the main things learnt during the previous lesson briefly. Ensure that students are reminded about how the audience can be manipulated in different ways through the combination of different modes of text – images, videos, music, written text, etc. · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Show the students the Instructions sheet that explains what they are meant to do in this lesson. Go through this with the students. · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Have a half-completed Koala Presentation Draft Sheet on the IWB about Koala’s (Appendix D). Jointly work on this with the class, writing where the audio could be put in, where different pictures or clips could be inserted, etc. Gives students some strategies that may help them do this part – like how to quickly search for images, videos and audio using search engines like YouTube and Google. · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Shows students how they can put audio, voice-overs, video clips, etc into a PowerPoint presentation (students should already have these basic technical strategies). · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Will collaboratively map out the multimodal text on the Koala Presentation Draft Sheet, incorporating all the main points conveyed through the Instructions sheet. (15min) · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Once the teacher checks the students draft sheet, students are able to begin working on their PowerPoint presentation. This PowerPoint presentation will incorporates all the criteria outlined in the Instructions sheet (PLEASE REFER TO THE APPENDIX D). (30 min) · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> ||||  · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Carefully select students to work in pairs. · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Give out Koala Presentation Draft Sheets and Instruction sheets. · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Walk around and lend assistance to students. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> || · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Teacher gathers students in a circle, and asks each group to present what they have done so far. Students are required to explain how they transformed their work from their Draft Sheet into the beginning phases of their PowerPoint presentation. Students discuss ideas or any issues they may have come across. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">(Please Note; refer to Appendix D, to fully understand the context of this lesson plan). || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">The PowerPoint presentation will be taken by the teacher and assessed. The class discussion at the end will also be a way the teacher assesses the students understanding of the concepts associated with multimodal texts. || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">The teacher will walk around the classroom and assist students who are struggling. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">If the IWB does not work, the teacher could prompt the students through questioning to revise their prior knowledge about the concepts that will be explored in this lesson. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Were the students thoroughly engaged throughout the lesson? If not, why not? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Were the students able to do the activities in the allocated time period? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Was there enough scaffolding and modeling of the processes needed in the lesson? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Were there lots of requests for teacher assistance? If so, how could these have been minimized? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">How could this lesson have been improved? ||
 * ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Unit Topic: Koalas: ** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">A Native Australian Animal <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">  |||| ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Curriculum Link:  ** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Science and Technology <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">  || ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Stage/Yr Level:  ** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Stage 2/ Year 4 <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">  ||
 * ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Lesson Number: ** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">8/10 <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">  |||| ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Lesson Topic:  ** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Multimodal PowerPoint presentation <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">  || ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Learning Area(s):  ** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">English & Science <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">  ||
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 * ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Lesson Outline **
 * __<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Introduction: __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> (10 min)
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 * ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Students will …… ** |||| ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Teacher will…  **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">  ||
 * · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Be put into pairs.
 * __<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Concluding strategy: __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;"> (5 min)
 * ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Assessment: **
 * ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Any special considerations or contingency plans:  **
 * ** <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt;">Self-reflection  **