Blue - Ocean Guardians Caring For Our Oceans

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Foundation HASS:

• Sequence familiar objects and events (ACHASSI004)

Year 1 HASS:

• Reflect on learning to propose how to care for places and sites that are important or significant (ACHASSI026)

Year 2 HASS:

• Reflect on learning to propose how to care for places and sites that are important or significant (ACHASSI042)

Foundation to Year 2 – The Arts – Music:

• Create compositions and perform music to communicate ideas to an audience (ACAMUM082)

Foundation to Year 2 – The Arts – Drama:

• Present drama that communicates ideas, including stories from their community, to an audience (ACADRM029)

Syllabus outcomes: GE1-3, MUES1.2, MUS1.2, DRAES1.3, DRAS1.3.

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.9.

Relevant parts of Foundation HASS achievement standards: Students reflect on their learning to suggest ways they can care for places.

Relevant parts of Year 1 HASS achievement standards: Students reflect on their learning to suggest ways they can care for places. 

Relevant parts of Year 2 HASS achievement standards: Students reflect on their learning to suggest ways to care for places and sites of significance.

Relevant parts of Foundation to Year 2 The Arts – Music achievement standards: Students improvise, compose, arrange and perform music. They demonstrate aural skills by staying in tune and keeping in time when they sing and play.

Relevant parts of Foundation to Year 2 The Arts – Drama achievement standards: Students make and present drama using the elements of role, situation and focus in dramatic play and improvisation.

Unit of work: Blue The Film: Inquiry – Foundation, Blue The Film: Inquiry – Years 1 & 2.

Time required: 80+ mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – oversee activities, lead discussions and facilitate content.

• Device capable of presenting a website
• One printed copy of the Flashcard Images
• Props for the performance, such as plastic bags, reusable bags, toothbrushes, packaging (for litter), drink bottles and musical equipment.

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

• Communication
• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Social skills
• Community engagement
• Leadership
• 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.