SunSmart Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Lessons
SunSmart, in collaboration with Electroboard, have developed 19 free IWB lessons suitable for Foundation to Year 6 (primary
years). These lessons can be linked to the Australian Curriculum.
Visit www.seeshareshape.com.au/share/lessons_search.aspx?19=SunSmart or click on each link below.
Lesson
Lesson summary
Suggested learning area / strand
Suggested
year level
Identify what various animals do to protect
themselves from the sun and how these
behaviours relate to people
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Science / Science understanding
Foundation
– Year 3
Overview of the 5 SunSmart Steps: hats,
clothing, sunscreen, shade and
sunglasses.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Foundation
– Year 3
Identify key messages in the Sid Seagull
ad, arrange the storyboard in the correct
order and create a new SunSmart ad
storyboard or song.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
English / Language / Literature / Literacy
Foundation
– Year 4
Complete the missing lyrics to the
SunSmart Countdown song and choose
which clothes, hats, sunscreen, shade and
sunglasses provide the best sun
protection.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
English / Language / Literature
Foundation
– Year 6
Which outfit is more SunSmart? Explore
and design the best SunSmart clothing
according to design, fabric and UPF.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Science / Science as a human
endeavour
Foundation
– Year 6
[web link]
Animals in the Sun
5 SunSmart Steps
Sid Seagull Ad
SunSmart Countdown
Song
Slip on covering
clothing
Image
SunSmart IWB lessons
Lesson
Lesson summary
Suggested learning area / strand
Suggested
year level
Learn about the eye through a video and
complete a quiz. Discuss how to protect
eyes from too much UV, and what to look
for when choosing sunglasses.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Foundation
– Year 6
Explore the effect of UV radiation on
sausage skins under various conditions.
Predict what will happen, Observe the
results and develop a Report. How can this
experiement help people with sun
protection?
Visual record of how many children have
remembered their sun hats each day.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Science / Science understanding /
Science inquiry skills
Foundation
– Year 6
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Mathematics / Number and algebra /
Statistics and probability
Foundation
– Year 6
Provides graphic organizer templates that
can be used in the classroom to guide and
capture discussion on SunSmart topics.
The templates included are KWL, Fishbone
diagram, Y diagram, 5 Whys, Claim, PMI,
Spider Diagram, POOCH and Cause
Effect.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
English / Language / Literature
Foundation
– Year 6
[web link]
Slide on some
sunglasses
Sausage Science
Daily Hat Count
Graphic organizer
templates
Image
SunSmart IWB lessons
Lesson
Lesson summary
Suggested learning area / strand
Suggested
year level
Explore the SunSmart UV Alert and how it
assists with sun protection.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Science / Science as a human
endeavour
Year 2 –
Year 6
Identify and review the 6 key pieces of
information included on a sunscreen label
and design and rate sunscreen labels.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
English / Language / Literature
Year 2 –
Year 6
Identify what ARPANSA researchers were
trying to discover using a real research
paper. Explore the key results, develop a
hat policy for the school and create hat
designs.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Science / Science understanding /
Science inquiry skills / Science as a
human endeavour
Year 2 –
Year 6
Conduct a shade audit to determine the
level and quality of shade in the school
environment.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Science / Science understanding /
Science inquiry skills
English / Language / Literature / Literacy
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
English / Language / Literature
Year 2 –
Year 6
[web link]
SunSmart UV Alert
Slop on sunscreen
Slap on a hat
Seek Shade
Vitamin D – Bones
Explore how Vitamin D helps the body
particularly bone development and health.
Reveal interesting facts about bones, label
a skeleton and use bones to create a
skeleton.
Year 2 –
Year 6
Image
SunSmart IWB lessons
Lesson
Lesson summary
Suggested learning area / strand
Suggested
year level
Explore how Vitamin D helps the body
particularly muscle development and
health. Reveal interesting information
about muscles, watch a video and then
create an interactive quiz.
Provides instructions, a blank template and
rubric to guide and assess the design of an
interesting interactive SunSmart poster.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
English / Language / Literature
Year 2 –
Year 6
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
English / Language / Literature
Year 2 –
Year 6
Explore how much UV exposure is needed
for vitamin D in different parts of Australia
according to skin type and using the
Vitamin D calculator.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Year 3 –
Year 6
Overview of the sun, including the solar
system, sunlight, heat, and UV.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Science / Science understanding /
Science inquiry skills
Year 3 –
Year 6
Learn about the different parts of the skin,
put together a diagram of the skin and
complete a quiz.
Health and Physical Education /
Personal, social and community health
Science / Science understanding /
Science inquiry skills
Year 3 –
Year 6
[web link]
Vitamin D – Muscles
Design a poster
Vitamin D
The Sun
Skin
Image
SunSmart IWB lessons
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January 2013