Author: twoods97

Redefinition

Geography Lesson:

Original Task: students observe maps of different locations
and use books to get first hand accounts from people who live there.
Redefinition: this task can be redefinned by getting the students
to use Google Earth to explore the locality in a realistic manner.
Furthermore, students can engage with students overseas from that
locality to work together on a group project. The students from both
countries could get video interviews from each other about where
they live. This task is a redefined because it was not previously
possible for students to do this without technology. This task could
be used in any stage of the Geography curriculum. However, students
may achieve more growth out of the task in their later years of
highschool.

Biology Lesson

Original Task: students answer a handwritten quiz.

Redefinition: this task could be redefined if the students created a documentary video answering the long or short answer questions from the originial task. Different groups of students would take different topics, so that collaboratively they had created resource summaries on all the topics.

For example, students create videos answering the Biology Stage 6 Syllabus outcome 1 of the “Human Story” topic (pg. 62). An example of a topic/question they might address could be: outline features that classify humans as mammals, primates, hominid or hominin.

Click the URL below to access a Google doc redefinition lesson plan:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjxNTHYh1gOrwdLfWEfcY5PWj8zYLuv_RiyUT_j8WfI/edit?usp=sharing

Click the URL below to access a website with further ideas on redefinition.

https://www.schoology.com/blog/samr-model-practical-guide-edtech-integration

Modification

Biology Lesson

Original Task:  
Students collect data in their workbooks
Modification: Using google sheets students collaboratively share 
and compare their data. Once students have done this they can use
equations in the software to analyse their combined data and create
graphs and statistics to later draw conclusions from. 
Due to basic scientific fundamentals being needed, this task should
not be performed in this context until in the higher age groups  
from grades 10-12, to begin with. 
It also engages students with many of the content dotpoints from 
the K-10 syllabus section, Processing and Analysing Data and 
Infromation: "using a range of representations to organise data, 
including graphs, keys , models, diagrams, tables and spreadsheets."

Geography Lesson

Original Task: Students learn how to calculate the gradient of different maps.

Modification: Using the flipped learning approach the teacher records an instructional video for the students on how to calculate the gradient of a mountain on a map. The students are required to watch the video as homework. The following day in the classroom the students will spend the lesson calculating the gradient of slopes on maps provided by the teacher. This time will allow the students to practice and hone their mapping techniques.

This lesson would focus on the H10 syllabus outcome: “applies maps, graphs and statistics, photographs and fieldwork to analyse and integrate data in geographical contexts.”

Click the URL below to access a substitution lesson plan:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12uRq95jVMKluLA6aWJQczAcAlnsFIX7TqqWmhuE1yHE/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ERDo4jOBYaiZBBclsZpmtc2kt4hd6o8M/view?usp=sharing

Podcast Music Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzA75AF_1H0