Design a Sustainable Farm for the Future

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

• creativity
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• problem solving
• prototyping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Years 5 & 6 Design and Technologies 

• Generate, iterate and communicate design ideas, decisions and processes using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools (AC9TDE6P02)
• Negotiate design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions (AC9TDE6P04)

• Explain how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments (AC9TDE6K03)

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 Design and Technology achievement standards: 

Students explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability. They select and justify design ideas and solutions against design criteria, and share and communicate ideas or content to an audience using technical terms, graphical representation techniques and appropriate digital tools.

Syllabus outcomes: ST3-5LW-T

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

UN SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Target 2.4: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality

• Materials for planning and creating farm designs, e.g. pen and paper, plasticine, craft materials
• Whiteboard for creating a mind-map
• Student Worksheet.

This unit of lessons, along with the other units in the Skills and Jobs For a Transitioned Economy package aims 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: Low - facilitate class discussion and oversee the design process.

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.