Oz-e-science
In Lessons 1 to 9, students learn about:
- places (habitats) that living things live in
- describing the forest habitat and how it meets the needs of forest animals
- different features that animals have that help them to live in the forest and the external features of forest animals
- describing the ocean habitat and how the ocean habitat meets the needs of ocean animals
- different features that animals have that help them to live in the ocean and analysing the external features of ocean animals
- how the arctic habitat meets the needs of arctic animals and describing the arctic habitat
- external features of arctic animals and identifying the needs of living things
- planning a zoo enclosure according to the needs of a living thing
- representing the needs of a chosen living thing by building a zoo enclosure
- completing a final assessment, reporting, and communicating.
Progress Tests
Progress tests are conducted after every second lesson, allowing teachers to monitor student understanding of the concepts taught over the past two lessons and identify where reteaching is needed. The Teaching Guide contains the testing questions, and the Student Workbook has a section where students write their answers and score themselves.
Structured Research Activity
The Structured Research Activity (SRA) for this unit is as follows: Students create and present a mini zoo enclosure based on the needs of a chosen animal. The SRA takes place over two lessons so students can apply the Science Understanding and Science Inquiry Skills covered in the unit. Teachers use the Guide to Making Judgements, which is included in the Teaching Guide, to mark the SRA.
End-of-Unit Assessment
The last lesson is the end-of-unit assessment, which has a variety of question formats (e.g. label the diagram, circle the correct answer) to assess student mastery of content from the unit. The end-of-unit assessment is in the Teaching Guide. Teachers copy the assessment and distribute to students at testing time.
Progress tests are conducted after every second lesson, allowing teachers to monitor student understanding of the concepts taught over the past two lessons and identify where reteaching is needed. The Teaching Guide contains the testing questions, and the Student Workbook has a section where students write their answers and score themselves.
Structured Research Activity
The Structured Research Activity (SRA) for this unit is as follows: Students create and present a mini zoo enclosure based on the needs of a chosen animal. The SRA takes place over two lessons so students can apply the Science Understanding and Science Inquiry Skills covered in the unit. Teachers use the Guide to Making Judgements, which is included in the Teaching Guide, to mark the SRA.
End-of-Unit Assessment
The last lesson is the end-of-unit assessment, which has a variety of question formats (e.g. label the diagram, circle the correct answer) to assess student mastery of content from the unit. The end-of-unit assessment is in the Teaching Guide. Teachers copy the assessment and distribute to students at testing time.
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