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    This 3-week unit teaches students about the planets in our solar system. In week 1, students order the planets by distance from the sun and create scaled models. In week 2, they research their assigned planet and present findings to the class. In week 3, students simulate planetary orbits by following chalk paths outside and answer questions about orbits. The unit incorporates science, math, English, and ICT skills. It also explores Indigenous knowledge of the night sky. A summative assessment tasks students with writing a fictional story about a planet using factual information.

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    This 3-week unit teaches students about the planets in our solar system. In week 1, students order the planets by distance from the sun and create scaled models. In week 2, they research their assigned planet and present findings to the class. In week 3, students simulate planetary orbits by following chalk paths outside and answer questions about orbits. The unit incorporates science, math, English, and ICT skills. It also explores Indigenous knowledge of the night sky. A summative assessment tasks students with writing a fictional story about a planet using factual information.

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    This 3-week unit teaches students about the planets in our solar system. In week 1, students order the planets by distance from the sun and create scaled models. In week 2, they research their assigned planet and present findings to the class. In week 3, students simulate planetary orbits by following chalk paths outside and answer questions about orbits. The unit incorporates science, math, English, and ICT skills. It also explores Indigenous knowledge of the night sky. A summative assessment tasks students with writing a fictional story about a planet using factual information.

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    This 3-week unit teaches students about the planets in our solar system. In week 1, students order the planets by distance from the sun and create scaled models. In week 2, they research their assigned planet and present findings to the class. In week 3, students simulate planetary orbits by following chalk paths outside and answer questions about orbits. The unit incorporates science, math, English, and ICT skills. It also explores Indigenous knowledge of the night sky. A summative assessment tasks students with writing a fictional story about a planet using factual information.

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    Unit Title
    The planets of our solar system

    Unit Duration
    3 weeks

    Unit Overview
    This unit combines Science curriculum with Maths, English and ICT to teach and encourage students to explore the planets in our solar system.
    Students use a variety of activities, both practical and theory based to learn about general knowledge of the planets, their size and distance relative to
    other planets and the sun, their orbits, and the science used to explore them. The students are also encouraged to look into the knowledge of space
    developed by the Indigenous people of Australia.
    Unit Outline
    Week 1
    Week 2
    Week 3
    Size, Order and Distance of Planets
    Students use clues to order the planets from
    closest to furthest from the sun, they then make
    a scaled 2D model of a planet in a group, then
    place that planet on a line the correct scaled
    distance from the Sun. All these details are
    shown in a table next the planet.
    Identify Curriculum
    Science Understanding
    Year 5 -Earth and space
    sciences
    The Earth is part of a
    system of planets orbiting
    around a star (the sun)

    Our Planets
    After a brief discussion on planets to engage
    students. Students are placed into the same
    groups they were in last lesson when they make
    the 2D template for their planet. They are to
    research that planet and write a short oral
    presentation for the class about the planet. They
    are also to colour their planet in as realistically
    as possible.

    Science as a Human
    Endeavour

    Science Inquiry Skills

    Year 5-Nature and


    development of science
    Important contributions to
    the advancement of
    science have been made

    Year 5 -Planning and conducting


    Decide which variable should be
    changed and measured in fair tests
    and accurately observe, measure and
    record data, using digital technologies

    The Orbit Dance


    Students explore a book about planets and their
    orbits. They copy a diagram of the planets orbit
    into their book. The planets created in the last
    activity are taken outside where the students use
    them to represent each planet as they take it in
    turns to follow chalk lines on pavement to
    simulate each planets orbit. Students then
    answer teachers questions about orbits.

    General capabilities and cross-curriculum


    priorities
    Numeracy
    Using fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios
    and rates
    Using measurement

    Elaborations
    1. identifying the
    planets of the solar
    system and
    comparing how long
    they take to orbit the
    sun
    2. modelling the
    relative size of and
    distance between
    Earth, other planets
    in the solar system
    and the sun

    by people from a range of


    cultures
    Elaborations
    1. describing how
    scientists from a
    range of cultures
    have improved our
    understanding of the
    solar system, such as
    Copernicus, Khayym
    and Galileo
    2. researching the
    different types of
    scientists who work in
    teams in space
    exploration, and
    Australias
    involvement in space
    exploration
    3. learning how
    Aboriginal and Torres
    Strait Islander
    Peoples used
    observation of the
    night sky to assist
    with navigation
    Year 5- Nature and
    development of science
    Science involves testing
    predictions by gathering

    as appropriate
    Elaborations
    1. using familiar units such as
    grams, seconds and meters and
    developing the use of standard
    multipliers such as kilometres and
    millimetres
    2. recording data in tables and
    diagrams or electronically as
    digital images and spreadsheets
    Year 5-Planning and conducting
    With guidance, plan appropriate
    investigation methods to answer
    questions or solve problems
    Elaborations
    1. experiencing a range of ways of
    investigating questions, including
    experimental testing, internet
    research, field observations and
    exploring simulations
    2. discussing the advantages of
    certain types of investigation for
    answering certain types of
    questions
    Year 5 -Planning and conducting
    Use equipment and materials safely,
    identifying potential risks
    Elaborations

    ICT capability
    This includes conducting research, analysing
    data, , controlling processes and devices,
    and supporting computation while working
    independently and in collaboration with
    others.
    Critical and creative thinking
    Posing questions, making predictions,
    speculating, solving problems through
    investigation, making evidence-based
    decisions, and analysing and evaluating
    evidence. Students develop understandings
    of concepts through active inquiry that
    involves planning and selecting appropriate
    information, and evaluating sources of
    information to formulate conclusions.
    Personal and social capability
    Developing skills in communication, initiative
    taking, goal setting, interacting with others
    and decision making, and the capacity to
    work independently and collaboratively.
    Intercultural understanding
    Students learn to appreciate the contribution
    that diverse cultural perspectives have made
    to the development, breadth and diversity of
    science knowledge and applications.

    data and using evidence to


    develop explanations of
    events and phenomena
    Elaborations
    Researching how
    scientists were able to
    develop ideas about the
    solar system through the
    gathering of evidence
    through space exploration
    Year 5-Use and influence
    of science
    Scientific understandings,
    discoveries and inventions
    are used to solve
    problems that directly
    affect peoples lives
    Elaborations
    Describing how
    technologies developed to
    aid space exploration
    have changed the way
    people live, work and
    communicate

    1. explaining rules for safe


    processes and use of equipment
    Year 5 -Communicating
    Communicate ideas, explanations and
    processes in a variety of ways,
    including multi-modal texts
    Elaborations
    1. discussing how models represent
    scientific ideas and constructing
    physical models to demonstrate
    an aspect of scientific
    understanding
    2. constructing multi-modal texts to
    communicate science ideas
    3. using labelled diagrams, including
    cross-sectional representations,
    to communicate ideas

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories


    and cultures
    Students will have opportunities to learn
    that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
    Peoples have developed knowledge about
    the world through observation, using all the
    senses; through prediction and hypothesis;
    through testing (trial and error); and through
    making generalisations within specific
    contexts. These scientific methods have been
    practised and transmitted from one
    generation to the next. Students will develop
    an understanding that Aboriginal and Torres
    Strait Islander Peoples have particular ways
    of knowing the world and continue to be
    innovative in providing significant
    contributions to development in science. They
    will investigate examples of Aboriginal and
    Torres Strait Islander science and the ways
    traditional knowledge and western scientific
    knowledge can be complementary.

    Achievement Standard
    They describe the key features of our solar system. They use equipment in ways that are safe and improve the accuracy of their observations. Students
    construct tables and graphs to organise data . They communicate their ideas, methods and findings using a range of text types.
    Resources

    Risk assessment
    See separate lesson plans for individual risk assessments (all Activities are low-medium risk)
    Summative Assessment Activity
    Students are asked to write a fictional story about one of the planets and its interaction with the other planets, although it is a fictional story, it needs to
    use data and as many true facts about the planet and solar system as possible within the story. Stories are marked, not only for creativity, spelling and
    grammar, but for the use of true facts and data.

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