Backyard Bush Blitz - Pollinators and Decomposers

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 5 English:

• use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea AC9E5LY02
• Plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include relevant, elaborated ideas, sequencing ideas and using complex sentences, specialist and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features (AC9E5LY07)

Year 5 Science:

• Examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats (AC9S5U01)
• Write and create texts to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S5I06)

Year 6 English:

• identify responses to characters and events in literary texts, drawn from historical, social or cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E6LE01)

Year 6 Science:

• Investigate the physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions (AC9S6U01)
• Write and create texts to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S6I06)

Year 5 and 6 Drama:

• explore ways to combine the elements of drama to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in improvisations, devised drama and/or scripted drama AC9ADR6D01

Syllabus outcomes: EN3-1A, ST3-4WS, DRAS3.1.

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking, Literacy, Digital Literacy

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 English achievement standards: Students contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives. 

Relevant parts of Year 5 Science achievement standards: Students analyse how the form of living things enables them to function in their environments, and communicate their ideas and findings using multimodal texts.

Relevant parts of Year 6 English achievement standards: Students contribute actively to class and group discussions, using a variety of strategies for effect.

Relevant parts of Year 6 Science achievement standards: Students describe and predict the effect of environmental changes on individual living things. Students communicate ideas, methods and findings.

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 Drama achievement standards:Students explain how dramatic action and meaning is communicated in drama they make, perform and view.

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Backyard Bush Blitz – Years 5 & 6

• A1 and A4 paper
• Agree/Disagree Signs (or create your own)
• Bush Blitz Slides
• Pollination and Decomposition Factsheet
• Internet-connected devices
• Pen and paper
• Student Worksheet – one copy for each student

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Communication
• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Cultural understanding
• Digital literacy
• Initiative

Time required: 145+ mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate discussion and lead students in activities

This is an original Cool+ lesson.