Blue - Ocean Guardian Campaigns

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 9 English:

• Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or illustrate arguments, including texts that integrate visual, print and/or audio features (ACELY1746)
• Use interaction skills to present and discuss an idea and to influence and engage an audience by selecting persuasive language, varying voice tone, pitch, and pace, and using elements such as music and sound effects (ACELY1811)
• Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for aesthetic and playful purposes (ACELY1741)

Year 9 Civics and Citizenship:

• Reflect on their role as a citizen in Australian, regional and global contexts (ACHCS089)

Year 10 English:

• Understand how language use can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people (ACELA1564).
• Identify and explore the purposes and effects of different text structures and language features of spoken texts, and use this knowledge to create purposeful texts that inform, persuade and engage (ACELY1750).
• Create sustained texts, including texts that combine specific digital or media content, for imaginative, informative, or persuasive purposes that reflect upon challenging and complex issues (ACELY1756).
• Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to influence a course of action (ACELY1751).

Year 10 Civics and Citizenship:

• Reflect on their role as a citizen in Australian, regional and global contexts (ACHCS102)

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and creative thinking, Ethical understanding.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.4, OI.5, OI.7, OI.9.

Relevant parts of achievement standards:

English Year 9 : In creating texts, students demonstrate how manipulating language features and images can create innovative texts. Students create texts that respond to issues, interpreting and integrating ideas from other texts. They make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, comparing and evaluating responses to ideas and issues.

Civics and Citizenship Year 9: Students analyse ways they can be active and informed citizens in different contexts.

English Year 10: Students develop their own style by experimenting with language features, stylistic devices, text structures and images. They make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, building on others’ ideas, solving problems, justifying opinions and developing and expanding arguments.

Civics and Citizenship Year 10: Students evaluate ways they can be active and informed citizens in different contexts.

Unit of work: Blue The Film: Science – Years 9 & 10, Blue The Film: English – Years 9 & 10, Blue The Film: Secondary Mathematics – Years 7 to 10

Time required: 3.5+ hours.

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 and video to the class
• Student computers
• Project planning tool
• Project checklist
• Presentation space with audio/visual capabilities for student campaign presentations

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

• Communication
• Community Engagement
• Problem Solving
• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Digital Literacy
• Empathy
• Ethical Understanding
• Social Skills
• Global Citizenship

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.