Blueback - Our Relationship With the Ocean

Australian curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions

• the influence of people, including First Nations Australians and people in other countries, on the characteristics of a place AC9HS5K04
• the management of Australian environments, including managing severe weather events such as bushfires, floods, droughts or cyclones, and their consequences AC9HS5K05

Syllabus outcomes: GE3-2

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:
Students identify and describe the interconnections between people and the human and environmental characteristics of places, and between components of environments. They identify the effects of these interconnections on the characteristics of places and environments.

• Access to the film Blueback, also available on Clickview
• Access to programs Miro or Canva 
• Device capable of presenting a video and audio to the class
• Individual devices with access to the internet
• Whiteboard and markers
• Writing materials

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

• Communication
• Digital literacy
• Empathy
• Ethical understanding

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium: Teachers should read this resource and its associated materials before delivering the lesson. This lesson recommends using Miro or Canva for digital mapping. Teachers will need to familiarise themselves with these programs first and explicitly teach students how to use these tools. 

Minderoo Foundation is proud to be the education partner for the film adaption of Tim Winton’s best-selling book, Blueback.

Teach the Big Picture of Sustainability

Quick summary: Open your students’ minds to how different systems – environmental, social and economic – are connected.