Benefits of Cool Burning (Secondary)

Syllabus Outcomes: AC9E8LY06

Cross Curriculum Priority: Sustainability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures. 

Relevant parts of Year 8 achievement standards:
Students create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence. They select and vary text structures to organise, develop and link ideas. They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features.

• Device capable of presenting a website to the class
• Factsheet - The Benefits Of Cool Burning
• News Article Assessment Rubric
• Tips For Writing A Great News Article
• Student Worksheet - one copy per student.
• Writing materials

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

• communication
• critical thinking
• cultural understanding

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - lead students in class discussions, oversee group activities, facilitate presentations, and intervene when students get bogged down looking for elusive material.

Special thanks to:
Fish River Station, John Daly, Dr Jeremy Russell-Smith, Peter Jacklyn, Peter McConchie, Dr Tommy George, David Claudie, Dale Musgrave, Carolyn George and Victor Steffensen.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

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