Lesson+Plan+5+-+Scaffolding+for+rich+task

Students will work together in planning to exhibit all learning activities of the Japan unit to contribute to a whole school event – Multicultural day. The aim is to showcase their work creatively to enlighten others about Japan. The exhibition will include visual tests, written texts, videos, demonstrations and food samples. ||
 * **Key Learning Areas:** HSIE, English |||| **Stage:** 2 ||
 * **Unit Topic:** Japan |||||| **Lesson Topic:** Scaffold for rich task || **Lesson Number:** 10/10 ||
 * **Unit Aim or Outcome:**
 * **Lesson Outcome:**
 * TS2.1** Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum


 * WS2.9** Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well structured texts that are more demanding in terms on topic audience and written language

- Discusses and reflects upon a variety of texts in order to achieve goal - Talks briefly to class after a group discussion on a current topic - Elaborates on others’ suggestions
 * CUS2.4** Describes different viewpoints, ways of living, languages and belief systems in a variety of communities |||||| **Indicators:**

- Uses some effective planning strategies - Understands and creates notes for relevant writing purposes - Uses illustrations and diagrams where relevant

- Participate in activities that encourage positive relationships with members of their school and their local community || -School Multicultural Day pamphlet -Butcher’s paper -Coloured markers - Sticker labels for team roles || - Display the school multicultural day pamphlet to the class - Lead a class discussion about multicultural day (what is it about? Why do we have this annual event?) - //How can we contribute to this special day with what we’ve been learning recently?// - **Introduction to Scenario:** //As students of _Primary School and you are very important members of your community. As members of the community you have been asked to showcase our classroom to enlighten other community members (peers, teachers, parents, guests to the community) about a particular culture to celebrate Multicultural Day.// ||
 * **Resources:**
 * **Lesson Outline** ||
 * __Introduction:__
 * __Teaching strategy/Learning__ __Activity:__ ||
 * **Students will ……** |||| **Teacher will…** ||
 * Organize themselves into the allocated groups

While students are fulfilling their team roles students will:

-Reflect on previous learning experiences relevant to their focus task -Share the learning experience with other group members and discuss how they can use some of the work that they have completed to showcase their particular cultural aspect -Decide on how to produce a draft plan that will clearly display their ideas on butcher’s paper -Produce a draft plan of their exhibition |||| **Divide** class into five groups and allocate each group a focus task (Geography, origami, Taiko, Karate and Sushi)

//As a group you will need to work together, reflect on previous lessons, use what we have produced in these lessons to plan your exhibition. You will need to be very informative but also creative to enlighten your fellow community members about Japan.//
 * Explain** group task

__Manager:__ responsible for the smooth running of task - collection of resources __Scribe__: writer __Director:__ ensures that all members are on task and understands the task aims, offers support and encourage __Speaker:__ responsible for asking teacher and other peers for assistance and reports back to group || Present their draft plans to the rest of the class. Describe their ideas and explain how these ideas will achieve their goal of enlightening the audience about Japan and multiculturalism.
 * Allocate team roles** to each group
 * __Concluding strategy:__

Other group members can identify strengths and weaknesses of their ideas and give suggestions for improvement

Consider teacher and peer’s feedback to edit draft plans. |||| Regroup the class for presentations. Provide feedback to all groups.

Send children back into their groups to edit their draft plans. For assessment reasons instruct groups to use a different coloured marker so that adjustments are obvious. || Observation - Teachers will evaluate students’ ability to work together as a team during the body of the lesson. Presentation - Teacher will understand group’s idea further by listening to their justifications and will provide immediate feedback on learning progress. Draft plan - Students draft plan will be collected and teacher will be able to clearly see students’ skills in editing to improve the draft. || Each group and team roles should be carefully selected to provide support for all students to ensure the maximum input from all students and efficiency in all tasks within the lesson. || Were groups selected appropriately? Were students engaged in the given tasks? Did students successfully achieve the lesson outcomes? What were the strengths and weaknesses of the lesson? How can we improve it for the future? ||
 * **Assessment:**
 * **Any special considerations or contingency plans:**
 * **Self-reflection**