edflin - Renewable Energies

Brief Outline of Integrated Learning Plan

Our integrated learning plan is titled "Will it ever run out?". This unit is aimed at year four students and focuses on expanding students understandings of renewable energies and how they impact on their lives, now and in the future. This is an important area to be focusing on as it coincides with rising energy prices, concerns about global warming and an uncertainty in future sustainability options.

This unit will provide students with the opportunity to develop and expand their ICT skills through discovery and investigation of renewable energies.

This unit will assist students in understanding what a renewable energy is, how they are produced and how these affect their lives.

Rational

The rational for this unit is to provide students with a deep understanding of not just the common presumption of energy avaliability, but the underlying formation of how this is produced, used and sustained. Through this, students should be able to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of how these concepts can be further exploit to benefit society.
This unit was developed using the Kath Murdoch inquiry learning model to ensure that other relevant skills and issues were investigated that involve students in substantive conversation, higher order thinking, deep and problematic knowledge. From this our unit has been designed incorporating the elements of the quality teaching framework and by using the backwards by design approach (Wiggins and McTighe).

There are six parts to our unit plan. These are stored as separate public google.docs linked to this page. The links are below:

Stage 1 - This document outlines what is worthy of understanding in the integrated learning plan. It covers the overarching questions, links to SACSA, resources, enduring understandings, essential questions, knowledge and skills that the students will know and be able to do.

Stage 2a - This document outlines the evidence of what will be gathered to determine students understanding.

Stage 2b - This document details the culminating assessment tasks for students including explicit quality criteria set out in the form of an assessment rubric. Also included is a self-assessment of the quality of the assessment task based on the QT framework.

Stage 3 - This document describes the sequence of learning activities that will enable students to achieve the desired results.

Stage 4a - This document includes one lesson of the integrated learning plan that uses a learning object.

Stage 4b - This document details one lesson of the integrated learning plan that uses the Web 2.0 tool of Ed.Voicethread.