Activity Introduction
Quick summary: In this lesson, students learn about dialysis and how the treatment can be prevented. Students will consider the amount of time required to undertake dialysis, and come up with some ideas on how to use this time to make healthier choices, hopefully reducing the risk of developing kidney disease.
Learning intentions:
- Students can explain how dialysis filters the blood in patients with kidney disease
- Students can use multiplication to solve simple problems
- Students can suggest activities that could be enjoyed instead of dialysis treatment.
21st-century skills:
Australian Curriculum Mapping
Content descriptions:
Year 5 and 6 HPE
Investigate community resources and ways to seek help about health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS053)
Plan and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS054)
Year 5 English
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703)
Year 6 English
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (ACELY1713)
Year 5 Mathematics
Solve problems involving multiplication of large numbers by one- or two-digit numbers using efficient mental, written strategies and appropriate digital technologies (ACMNA100)
Use efficient mental and written strategies and apply appropriate digital technologies to solve problems (ACMNA291)
Year 6 Mathematics
Select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers (ACMNA123)
Syllabus outcomes: PHS3.12, SLS3.13, EN3-3A, MA3‑1WM, MA3‑2WM, MA3‑3WM, MA3‑6NA, MA3‑5NA,
General capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy
Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability
Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 HPE achievement standards:
Students describe the key features of health-related fitness and the significance of physical activity participation to health and wellbeing. They examine how physical activity, celebrating diversity, and connecting to the environment support community wellbeing and cultural understanding.
Students demonstrate fair play and skills to work collaboratively. They access and interpret health information and apply decision-making and problem-solving skills to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, and wellbeing. They perform specialised movement skills and sequences and propose and combine movement concepts and strategies to achieve movement outcomes and solve movement challenges. They apply the elements of movement when composing and performing movement sequences.
Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 English achievement standards:
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing)
By the end of Year 6, students understand how the use of text structures can achieve particular effects. They analyse and explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used by different authors to represent ideas, characters and events.
Students compare and analyse information in different and complex texts, explaining literal and implied meaning. They select and use evidence from a text to explain their response to it. They listen to discussions, clarifying content and challenging others’ ideas.
Productive modes (speaking, writing and creating)
Students understand how language features and language patterns can be used for emphasis. They show how specific details can be used to support a point of view. They explain how their choices of language features and images are used.
Students create detailed texts elaborating on key ideas for a range of purposes and audiences. They make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, using a variety of strategies for effect. They demonstrate an understanding of grammar, and make considered vocabulary choices to enhance cohesion and structure in their writing. They use accurate spelling and punctuation for clarity and make and explain editorial choices based on criteria.
Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 Mathematics achievement standards:
By the end of Year 6, students recognise the properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers. They describe the use of integers in everyday contexts. They solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers. Students connect fractions, decimals and percentages as different representations of the same number. They solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of related fractions. Students make connections between the powers of 10 and the multiplication and division of decimals. They describe rules used in sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Students connect decimal representations to the metric system and choose appropriate units of measurement to perform a calculation. They make connections between capacity and volume. They solve problems involving length and area. They interpret timetables. Students describe combinations of transformations. They solve problems using the properties of angles. Students compare observed and expected frequencies. They interpret and compare a variety of data displays including those displays for two categorical variables. They interpret secondary data displayed in the media.
Students locate fractions and integers on a number line. They calculate a simple fraction of a quantity. They add, subtract and multiply decimals and divide decimals where the result is rational. Students calculate common percentage discounts on sale items. They write correct number sentences using brackets and order of operations. Students locate an ordered pair in any one of the four quadrants on the Cartesian plane. They construct simple prisms and pyramids. Students describe probabilities using simple fractions, decimals and percentages.
Topic: Sugar By Half
This lesson is part of the wider unit of work: Sugar By Half
Time required: 70 mins.
Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion, lead students in activities.
Resources required:
- Device capable of presenting a video to the class.
- Device to research (optional)
- Student Worksheets – one copy per student.
Keywords: dialysis, kidney disease, preventative health
Cool Australia’s curriculum team continually reviews and refines our resources to be in line with changes to the Australian Curriculum.
