Earth Hour - Design a Banner

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• community engagement
• global citizenship

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Foundation, Visual Arts

• create arts works that communicate ideas (AC9AVAFC01)
• share their arts works with audiences (AC9AVAFP01). 

Year 1 and 2, Visual Arts

• use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks (AC9AVA2C01)
• share artworks and/or visual arts practice in informal settings (AC9AVA2P01).

Relevant parts of Foundation achievement standards: Students use play, imagination, arts knowledge, processes and/or skills to create and share arts works in different forms.

Relevant parts of Year 1 and 2 achievement standards: Students create arts works in a range of forms. They share their work in informal settings.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

• makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of  real and imaginary things (VAS1.1)
• uses the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements (VAS 1.2)

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

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - support students in effective collaboration when creating and designing their banners.

UN SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

• Target 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.

• Banner (fabric or poster board)
• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• If using fabric, use canvas fabric, fabric markers and/or paint 
• If using poster board, use rulers, markers, pencils, and crayons.

Earth Hour is a WWF-Australia initiative and the world’s largest community-driven climate change campaign. At the centre of Earth Hour is switching off lights to show a commitment to action. Thousands of educators use Earth Hour’s education program to enrich their curriculum and provide pathways for young people to create change in their world. For the most up-to-date Earth Hour dates, times, and events, check here.

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