Big idea: adopting sustainable practices to save the environment

1. curriculum links:

1.1. The use and management of natural resources and waste, and the different views on how to do this sustainably (ACHASSK090).

1.2. The custodial responsibility Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have for Country/Place, and how this influences views about sustainability (ACHASSK089)

1.3. Questioning:Pose questions to investigate people, events, places and issues (ACHASSI073)

1.3.1. Elaborations: exploring how some natural resources are used and managed in sustainable and non-sustainable ways investigating where a particular renewable natural resource comes from, how it is used and sustainable management strategies (for example, recycling paper or planting more trees)

1.4. Researching: Locate and collect information and data from different sources, including observations (ACHASSI074)

1.5. Analysing: Examine information to identify different points of view and distinguish facts from opinions (ACHASSI077)

1.6. Evaluating and Reflecting: Reflect on learning to propose actions in response to an issue or challenge and consider possible effects of proposed actions (ACHASSI081)

1.7. Communicating: Present ideas, findings and conclusions in texts and modes that incorporate digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms (ACHASSI082).

2. 5E Model

2.1. Engage: collect information, watch videos about different sustainable practices,

2.2. Explore: excursion to different recycling centres, hands on activities creating different posters using ICT, . Rubbish Bin Sorting Activity

2.3. Explain: define different vocabulary (sustainability, sustainable practices, natural resources), use collaboration to explain the concept of sustainability.

2.4. Explain/elaborate: students will reserach about Australia's natural resources, the benefits of these reources and how to sustain these reources. Students use internet to browese different information

2.4.1. formative assessment

2.5. Evaluate: Self-evaluation-using self-assessment tool, Students can produce a creative assessment. This may be a brochure, magazine article or advertisement, newspaper, crossword puzzle, board game, website, or letter. The teacher can evaluate this with a rubric.

3. Question 3) How can people use the environment more sustainably?

4. Question 2) How can Australia be more sustainable?

5. Question 1) how are natural resources used in Australia?

6. concepts

6.1. sustainability

6.2. environment

6.3. causes and effects

7. General Capabilities

7.1. ethical understanding

7.2. sustainability

7.3. critical and creative understanding

7.4. personal and social capability

8. Curriculum integration

8.1. English: Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing responses and expressing a point of view (ACELT1603 ).

8.2. Interacting with others: .

8.3. Interacting with others: Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently (ACELY1688

8.4. Use and influence of science : Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (ACSHE062).

9. resources

9.1. ICT, Videos, websites, excursion, guest speaker.

10. Cross-curriculum: investigating how knowledge and practices shared among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are linked to sustainable use of resources and environments (such as rotational use and harvesting of resources, mutton-bird harvesting in Tasmania, the use of fire, and the collection of bush food from semi-arid range lands). Sustainability: Actions for a more sustainable future reflect values of care, respect and responsibility, and require us to explore and understand environments. Sustainable futures result from actions designed to preserve and/or restore the quality and uniqueness of environments.