Blueback - What is Commercial Fishing?

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:
By the end of Year 5, 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. They identify and describe different possible responses to a geographical challenge.

• Access to the film Blueback 
• Access to Canva (optional)
• Art supplies – Pens, paper, glue, scissors (optional)
• Device capable of presenting a video and audio to the class
• Individual devices with access to the internet (optional)
• Student Worksheet
• Writing materials (optional)

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

• Communication
• Creative thinking
• Digital literacy
• Ethical understanding
• Initiative

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low: This resource and its associated materials should have all teachers need to be able to deliver this lesson. Concepts are explicitly explored within the lesson with no further reading required. Some of the activities may need to be planned in context to teachers’ classrooms. This lesson includes the option to use Canva which teachers should familiarise themselves with before using the tool with students.

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.