Lesson summary
Students explore the many benefits of cool burning practices.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- identify some of the cultural, environmental and economic benefits of cool burning.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- describe how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples use their knowledge of seasons and local conditions to produce cool burns for the benefit of their communities and the local environment.
Partner acknowledgement
Cool.org would like to acknowledge the support of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ltd (NAILSMA) in creating these resources.
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Lesson details
Curriculum mapping
Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:
Year 5 English:
Students learn to:
- plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation (AC9E5LY06)
Cross Curriculum Priority: Sustainability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.
Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:
By the end of Year 5, students create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing and expanding on ideas with supporting details from topics or texts.
Resources required
- Device capable of presenting a website to the class
- Factsheet - The Benefits Of Cool Burning
- Report Assessment Rubric
- Student Worksheet - one copy per student
- Writing materials
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- communication
- critical thinking
- cultural understanding
Additional info
Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - oversee class discussion and lead students in activities.
This is an original Cool+ lesson.
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