back to index of Yrs 7-10 Outline of lessons - years 7 - 10 back to page 1 about this kit go to page 3 - integration hints
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Key Learning Area - Science

Lesson 1 How a plant works - collecting seeds
Lesson 2 How a plant works - sowing seeds
Lesson 3 How a plant works - growing plants
Lesson 4 Observing plants
Lesson S Classifying plants
Lesson 6 Ecology
Lesson 7 Plant adaptation

Key Learning Area - Human Society and its Environment

Lesson 1 Locating the shade-house
Lesson 2 Mapping plants
Lesson 3 Investigating Aboriginal uses of plants
Lesson 4 Surveying history of local vegetation
Lesson 5 Working with council and community
Lesson 6 Developing a planting action plan

Key Learning Area - Technology and Applied Studies

Lesson 1 Trees as a resource
Lesson 2 Tree growth
Lesson 3 Planning a school forest
Lesson 4 Managing a forest
Lesson 5 From seedlings to wood products

Key Learning Area - Mathematics

Lesson I Counting seeds
Lesson 2 Calculating volume of mixes
Lesson 3 Calculating germination success rate
Lesson 4 Surveying plant growth
Lesson 5 Costing shade-house project
Lesson 6 Measuring trees

Key Learning Area - English/Creative Arts

Lesson 1 The senses and plants
Lesson 2 Life cycle of a tree (explanation text type)
Lesson 3 Seed sowing (procedural text type.)
Lesson 4 Plant poetry
Lesson 5 A School 'Trees for Survival' newsletter
Lesson 6 Talk - 'from Seed to Shelter
Lesson 7 Leaf litter collage
Lesson 8 Plant patterns

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