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Investigate How Animals are Impacted by Their Environment

PrimarySecondaryScienceHumanities and Social SciencesGeographyEnvironmentalSustainability

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Course Content

Introduction

Introduction

01.

Introduction

02.

WWF - Australia and Earth Hour

03.

Young people and Climate Change

04.

Set a learning goal

About Climate Change

About Climate Change

05.

Weather and climate

06.

Global Warming, Climate Change and Fossil Fuels

07.

The Greenhouse Effect

08.

Climate Change In Australia

Animals And Climate Change

Animals And Climate Change

09.

Caring for students' wellbeing

10.

Animal Adaptation

11.

Using Earth Hour to help animals

12.

Human adaptation

13.

Climate Change mitigation

14.

Quick Check-In

Your Teaching

Your Teaching

15.

Earth Hour Schools Day

16.

Finding room in the curriculum

17.

Curriculum links

18.

Teaching resources

19.

Teaching tips

Reflection

Reflection

20.

Reflect on your learning

21.

Congratulations!

Course Writers

Instructor 1

Interviews with Loretta Leary
Loretta is an experience classroom teacher at Mount Waverley Primary School. For over 17 years, she has been developing her school’s sustainability program and curriculum scope and sequence. Loretta won the Sir John Monash Award for Sustainability Leadership in 2016 and the ResourceSmart Schools Sustainability Teacher of the Year in 2017.

Instructor 2

Andrew Vance is an award-winning science teacher at Melbourne Girls’ College. Self-confessed ‘fish geek’, and solar and pedal power enthusiast, Andrew is passionate about igniting a love of learning in his students. Andrew is also a part-time stay at home dad who is very proud to have put three kids through cloth nappies.

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