Caring for Country Using Fire

Syllabus Outcomes: AC9HG10K03

Cross Curriculum Priority: Sustainability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures. 

Relevant parts of Year 10 achievement standards: Students explain the effects of human activity on environments, and the effect of environments on human activity, over time. They evaluate the implications of a distribution. They evaluate the extent of interconnections occurring between people and places and environments. They analyse changes that result from these interconnections and their consequences. Students evaluate strategies to address a geographical phenomenon or challenge, using environmental, social and economic criteria.

• Device capable of presenting a website to the class.
• Factsheet - Cool Burning Scientific Research
• Factsheet - How Do Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples Use Fire To Manage Country?
• Student Worksheet - one copy per student.

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

• communication
• critical thinking
• cultural understanding

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low - Support students in independent work. 

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

• Teach Indigenous Land Management Using Fire
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