Earth Hour - How do Floods and Droughts Affect our Environment?

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 3 English:

• Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students’ own and other cultures using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle (ACELT1601)
• Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue (ACELT1791)

Year 3 Geography:

• The main climate types of the world and the similarities and differences between the climates of different places (ACHASSK068)

Year 4 English:

• Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607)
• Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)

Year 4 Science:

• Living things, including plants and animals, depend on each other and the environment to survive (ACSSU073)
• Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity (ACSSU075)

General capabilities: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability, Ethical understanding.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability – OI.6.

Syllabus Outcomes: EN2-10C, EN2-2A, GE2-1, ST2-10LW, ST2-8ES.

Time needed: 60 minutes.

• Internet access
• students worksheet

This activity has been created in partnership with WWF-Australia. Earth Hour is the world’s largest community-driven climate change campaign. At the centre of Earth Hour is switching off lights to show a commitment to taking action. Thousands of teachers 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.