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Exploring the Planet Ark and BYOBAGS TV commercial. |||| **Learning Area/s:** Environments || To introduce students to one man-made product (plastic bags) and its impact on the environment. Students will gain an understanding on how people and their products interact and impact on the natural environment, whilst developing research, reading, talking and listening skills as they explore the Web and other media. ﻿ ||
 * **Unit Topic:** Waste Management || **KLA:** HSIE, English |||| **Stage/Year:** Stage 2, Year 4 ||
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 * Lesson Outcomes and Indicators:  HSIE

Environment **ENS2.6**- Describes people's interactions with environments and identifies responsible ways of interacting with environments.
 * Identifies and discusses the impact of plastic bags on the environment.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Identifies the viewpoints of Planet Ark website and BYOBAGS TV Commercial regarding the impact of plastic bags on the environment.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">English

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Talking and Listening <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**TS2.2** - Interacts effectively in groups and pairs, adopting a range of roles, uses a variety of media and uses various listening strategies for different situations.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Recognises and discusses the purpose of the BYOBAGS TV commercial.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Reading and Viewing Texts <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**RS2.5** -Reads independently a wide range of texts on increasingly challenging topics and justifies own interpretation of ideas, information and events. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**RS2.6**- Uses efficiently an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Contributes to class summary after viewing the BYOBAGS TV commercial.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Retells and discusses interpretation of texts (Planet Ark and BYOBAGS TV commercial) read or viewed, with attention to main ideas
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">locates information from Planet Ark website ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Resources:

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">South Australian BYOBAGS TV commercial- [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&hl=en-GB&v=gGyfnzI7ZaA]

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Planet Ark: Plastic Bag Reduction website- []

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- 3 types of plastic bags (Grocery bag, Myer shopping bag, rubbish bag) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Green environment bag <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">-Interactive smartboard and smartboard pens. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">-13 x computers <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">-13 x Butchers paper <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">-Whiteboard markers. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Lesson Outline ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Introduction ** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teacher || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Student || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Time || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Resources ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Ask students to sit on the floor in a circle.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">In the middle of the circle, place the three types of plastic bags- grocery, clothing bag, rubbish bag and the green environment bag.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Select one student to choose either one of the plastic bags or the green environment bag and ask them to describe how the bag feels, looks like and the use of plastic/ environment bag. Encourage students to talk about the difference between plastic bags and environmental bags.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Ask students what happens after we use plastic bags. Focus Questions:

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- What do you do with the plastic bag after you pack the shopping away?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Where do you put the plastic bag?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Can we recycle plastic bags? Why or Why not?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Do you reuse plastic bags like we reuse the environmental bag?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- What are the environmental impacts of plastic bags?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">On the Interactive white board, write down students answers. || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students sit on the floor forming a circle.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will pass the three plastic and the green environment bags around the circle.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">As a class, students will collectively brainstorm and discuss the various ways people use plastic bags and describing how they feel, looks like etc. Possibly discussing the “benefits” of using a plastic and/or environment bag -their practicality. I.e. to carry heavy objects, like milk etc.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students’ possible answer: I throw it away into the bin, we can pick up rubbish etc.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will collectively brainstorm and discuss the impact of plastic bags has on the environment. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">5 mins || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- 3 types of plastic bags (Grocery bag, Myer shopping bag, rubbish bag)

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Green environment bag

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Interactive smart board ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teaching strategy/Learning Activity ** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teacher || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Student || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Time || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Resources ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Activity1:Discussing the BYOBAGS Commercial.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">On the interactive smartboard, show students the South Australia BYOBAGS TV commercial. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Explain to students that this is a South Australia TV commercial. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Ask students to pay close attention to the message/meaning behind the commercial.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Ask students what they thought the commercial was about? Have students discuss the meaning or message of the commercial with the person next to them (think pair share) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Focus Questions: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- What is the commercial trying to tell us? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- How do you know? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Have students write their answers on the interactive whiteboards. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Explain to students that it is a commercial informing residents that there is a ban of plastic bags in Australia. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Explain to students that in South Australia they have banned plastic bags from their state. Inform students that NSW has not banned the use of plastic bags but shops are trying to reduce the use of plastic bags. Ask students: What have you noticed? How are shops trying to reduce the use of plastic bags?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Activity 2: Exploring the Planet Ark Website.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Display the Planet Ark website on the smartboard- Specifically the web page of Planet Ark’s Plastic Bag Reduction Campaign. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Explore and go through the website, showing the class the particular sections their going to look/read in pairs.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Arrange students into pairs, using the 1, 2 strategy and ask them to go to a computer.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Model how to open an internet browser by clicking on the icon. Use the cursor to click on the Url space and type in the Planet Ark website. ([])

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Explain to students that specific pairs will look at different sections of the website and write down information. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- [|About Plastic Bags] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- [|Environmental Impacts] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- [|Effects on Wildlife] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- [|In Other Countries] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- [|Go Plastic Bag Free!] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- [|Information Resources] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- [|FAQs]

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Whole Class discussion <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Have each pair describe the Planet Ark website and explain the information they gained from the website. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Ask students: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- What message/information is the Planet Ark website presenting? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Is the Planet Ark message/information similar to the BYOBAGS TV commercial?(banning and reducing the use of plastic bags) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Why do you think South Australia has banned plastic bags? || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students watch the BYOBAGS TV commercial and pay closely attention to the message/meaning behind the commercial.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will collectively brainstorm and discuss the meaning or message of the commercial with the person next to them (think pair share)

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">One at a time students will write their ideas and answers to the questions on the smartboard.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will work in pairs at a computer.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">In pairs, students access the assigned website (Planet Ark). Each pair explore a particular section of the website and note down important information within the section.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">On butchers paper, pairs will write down relevant information.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will give answers to questions. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">7 mins

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- <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">10 min || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Interactive smart board

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- BYOBAGS TV Commercial

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Smartboard pens

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Interactive smart board

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Internet: Planet Ark website

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- 13 x Butchers paper

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">-12 x markers ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Concluding Strategy ** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Teacher || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Time || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Resources ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Explain that students they are going to write a statement/ sentence about the impact plastic bags has on the environment on a post it note.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Have them place their statement/sentence inside the plastic bag at the front of the class.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Select and pick out one post it note from the bag and read it out to the class.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Ask students: Should we ban plastic bags in NSW? Why or Why not?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Remind students that South Australia has banned the use of plastic bags and that in NSW we still use plastic bags. Explain that Planet Ark is trying to persuade (convince) all states and territory in Australia to pan the use of plastic bags.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Explain that students are going to be working in small 'sustainability' groups, to create a multimodal news campaign to convince NSW residents to support a ban on plastic bags as they are having detrimental effect on the natural environment. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Outline to students that the campaign will take form of a video using the Jaycut software, hand-video cameras and Microsoft PowerPoint. || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">As a class, students will discuss the impact plastic bags has on the environment. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Each student will write down a statement/sentence on a post it note and place it in the plastic bag,

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will give an answer to the question.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students can ask questions and give reason why NSW should ban the use of plastic bags.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students can ask questions in regards to the task and express any queries. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">5 mins -- --  --  --  --  --  --  --

3 mins || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Post it notes

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Plastic bags || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Through observation, the teacher can assess the extent to which students contribute to class discussion on the impacts of plastic bags on the environment. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Specifically teachers will look for: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Did students comprehend the impact plastic bags has on the natural environment? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Were students able to work collaboratively in pairs to access information from the website and record this information on the butchers paper? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Were students able to skim/scan through and evaluate the website to gain and access information? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Did students contribute to class discussion on the impact of plastic bags on the environment? || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">This lesson relies on ICTs such as Interactive smartboard, computers and access to the internet, however if these ICTs are not available teachers should: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Book and visit the school’s computer lab or library for access to computers and the internet. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Insufficient computer or Internet access: print out of Planet Ark website with the text clearly displayed for each group/pair. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- No smartboard: record commercial on a DVD and use a TV to shoe commercial. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Catering for students diversity and differences” <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Students will be working in pairs, so any students who require support, such as ESL and students with learning needs, can be paired with students who are able to provide support. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Write instructions of activities on the board, so students know what should be done. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Use visual cues and model task <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- For students with special and learning needs, ensure that the task is differentiated according -to their ability. || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">To be completed at the end of the lesson. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Did students achieve the identified HSIE and English outcomes? If not, how could this lesson be modified to allow students to engage with the key concepts on a deeper level? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Did students demonstrate an ability to work collaboratively with their peers where? If not, why? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Have students understood the impact of plastic bags on the environment? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- To what extent were students able to explore the impact of and make judgements about plastic bags on the environment using the Planet ark website? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- How effective was the lesson in terms of the understandings students gained towards the environmental issues of plastic bags? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Were the resources (i.e. Planet Ark Website) used appropriate for the lesson? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">- What modifications should be made when teaching this lesson in the future? ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Assessment:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Special Considerations and <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">contingency plans:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Self-reflection/Evaluation: