Cool Burning Seasons

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

Year 5 Geography:

Students learn to:

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

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

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:
By the end of Year 5, students explain the influence of people on the characteristics of places and in the management of spaces. 

• Device capable of presenting a website to the class
• Individual devices capable of accessing the internet
• Materials for communication piece, such as poster-making materials or desktop publishing programs
• Student Worksheet - one copy per student

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

• communication
• critical thinking
• cultural understanding
• collaboration

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - Explain new concepts explicitly, support students in independent work. 

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

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