Carbon and Capture

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

• analysing
• inquiring
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 6 Science

• compare reversible changes, including dissolving and changes of state, and irreversible changes, including cooking and rusting that produce new substances AC9S6U04

Relevant parts of Year 6 Science achievement standards:

Students classify and compare reversible and irreversible changes to substances. They explain why science is often collaborative.

Syllabus outcomes: SC4-17CW

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking

Cross-curriculum priority:  Sustainability

UNSDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

• Target 12.4: By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimise their adverse impacts on human health and the environment

• Butchers paper and pens
• Capturing Carbon Poster Templates
• Device that can play media to the class

This unit of lessons, along with the other units in the Skills and Jobs For a Transitioned Economy package, aim to teach students how to be climate solution entrepreneurs. These lessons will equip students with the relevant skills and knowledge of jobs and career pathways that will be able to sustain our economy once it has transitioned away from fossil fuels. Cool.org thanks our philanthropic partners, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and Boundless Earth, for their generous contributions in helping us to create these resources.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – present information, facilitate class discussion.

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