Blueback - What is Ocean Literacy?

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 and describe different possible responses to a geographical challenge.

• Access to the film Blueback 
• Access to Kahoot 
• Device capable of presenting video and audio to the class
• Individual devices with access to the internet (optional)
• Students’ workbooks or access to word-processing software
• Student worksheet
• Writing materials (optional)

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

• Communication
• Curiosity
• Global citizenship
• Ethical understanding
• Empathy
• Digital literacy

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 and the ICT requirements of the lesson are standard, in that a functioning laptop with access to the Internet and a projector will suffice. 

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.