6172RB Science a STEM approach Year 2 low res watermark

Lesson 1
Earth and space sciences
OUR RESOURCEFUL WORLD
Teacher notes
Science inquiry focus:
What are Earth’s resources? Where do they come from and
how do we use them?
Science Inquiry Skills:
• Questioning and predicting QP
• Planning and conducting PC
• Processing and analysing data and information PA
• Evaluating E
• Communicating C
Science as a Human Endeavour:
• Students observe, ask questions about and describe how we
use Earth’s resources in our daily lives, in either their natural
or transformed state.
Technology/Engineering/Mathematics links:
• taking digital photographs of Earth’s resources around the
school
• uploading, re-sizing and printing digital photographs
(optional)
Background information
• Earth’s resources are resources found naturally on Earth.
Humans extract these resources from the air, the water, on
the ground or underground, to use in their natural state or
to transform into useable energy or a useable product.
• We commonly use Earth’s resources to meet our basic
needs, such as for food, water, warmth, shelter or
protection, or to obtain power/energy sources and
products that we want in our daily lives, such as jewellery,
kitchenware, clothing, electrical goods and money.
• Earth’s resources that are used in their natural state, such
as the sun, water, air and soil/sand, will be more familiar
to students. Other resources, such as minerals and fossil
fuels, may be less familiar to students and need to be
explained.
• Minerals are inorganic solid materials that can be
categorised as metals, rocks or crystals. Minerals are used
for a variety of electronic, household and infrastructure
purposes.
• Fossil fuels, including coal, crude oil and natural gas, have
been created naturally by the decomposing matter of
prehistoric plants and animals. These are used for fuel,
electricity, plastic production, medicine and cosmetics.
Assessment focus:
• Use completed copies of
page 80 to monitor students’
use of different recording tools
and prior knowledge of how
Earth’s resources are used
around the school.
• Monitor the student’s ability
to match Earth’s resources to
their uses, during the Reflection
activity.
Resources
• Online video—Resources:
Welcome to the
neighbourhood at
• One digital copy of
page 80 for display on an
interactive whiteboard
• One copy of page 80 for
each pair
• A digital camera or iPad®
for each pair
• One copy of the cards on
page 81. These will need
to be enlarged and cut out
prior to the lesson. They
may also be laminated to
add to a class word wall for
future use
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A STEM APPROACH
YEAR
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