We broadly considered the Year 7 topics and then started to develop an outline of the 'Key Knowledge' that needs to be covered in each broad topic. This lead to varied discussions about the order that the broad topics should be taught based on prior learning that students would develop through the previous topic.
We then discussed possible practical activities, assessment tasks, that would support the learning. As this is a big task we focused on what type of assessment items we currently do for each topic - this was added to a google sheet - where we can all access and start adding resources to.
Plenty of discussion related to assessment tasks: how many, type, variety, choice , what to asses/comment on for SIMON, yet still remain "sane" - do we have to assess and comment on all items for SIMON, key assessments tasks to add on SIMON, Practical reports -assess each one, or do an overall summary for each semester, Cheat sheets - should we use them or not, what year levels if we do use them, lots to chat about for future meetings.
Link to google sheet - Year 7 Science planning https://goo.gl/buL0Mv
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