Designing a Media Campaign to Promote Clean Energy Facts

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• community engagement
• digital literacy
• prototyping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 5 and 6, Digital Technologies

Students learn to:

• select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions (AC9TDI6P07)
• select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to share content online, plan tasks and collaborate on projects, demonstrating agreed behaviours (AC9TDI6P08).

Relevant parts of Year 5 and 6 Digital Technology achievement standards:  Students select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to plan, locate and share content, and to collaborate, applying agreed conventions and behaviours.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student:

• uses design processes to create, evaluate and modify designed solutions (ST3-DDT-01).

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low - the teacher will scaffold where required as students work in groups to complete tasks.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

• Clean energy campaign template activity sheet (1 per student according to their role)
• Sticky notes
• Student devices
• Student Worksheet
• Campaign role badges (optional, 1 per group) 
• Whiteboard

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