Blue - Marine Sanctuaries

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 7 Geography Unit 2 Places and Liveability:

• The influence of environmental quality on the liveability of places (ACHGK045)
• Strategies used to enhance the liveability of places, especially for young people, including examples from Australia and Europe (ACHGK047)

Syllabus outcomes: GE4-3, GE4.

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding, Personal and Social Capability.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.4, OI.5.

Relevant parts of Year 7 Geography achievement standards: Students explain interconnections between people and places and environments and describe how these interconnections change places and environments. Students describe alternative strategies to a geographical challenge referring to environmental, economic and social factors.

Unit of work: Blue The Film – Geography – Year 7.

Time required: 140 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – lead students in discussion and class activities, oversee group work.

• Student Worksheet – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a website to the class
• Marine Sanctuaries Factsheet (one per student)
• Zones For Marine Parks Factsheet (one per group)
• Ocean Activity Images (one copy for the class)

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

• Communication
• Creativity
• Global citizenship
• Social skills

Blue is a feature documentary film charting the drastic decline in the health of our oceans. With more than half of all marine life lost and the expansion of the industrialization of the seas, the film sets out the challenges we are facing and the opportunities for positive change. Blue changes the way we think about our liquid world and inspires the audience to action. Find out how to screen or download the film here. Along with the film is an ambitious global campaign to create advocacy and behaviour change through the #oceanguardian movement. To become an ocean guardian, see the website.