Lesson summary

Students will explore the importance and rationale behind Earth Hour and create a lantern with a written environmental pledge to use during the event.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

explore the impact of the environmental movement, Earth Hour.

Success criteria:

Students can...

describe how to take small steps towards positive change
create a lantern for Earth Hour.

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

creative thinking
critical thinking
collaboration
communication
curiosity

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 5 and 6, English

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas (AC9E5LY05)
use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources (AC9E6LY05).

Relevant parts of Year 5 and 6 achievement standards: Students read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language (EN3-CWT-01).

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Literacy, Personal and Social Capabil i ty

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - assist students in the lantern creation process.

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.

Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
Glue or sticky tape
Markers, coloured pencils, crayons, glitter pens etc
Lantern template (page 3 of lantern activity sheet)
Scissors
Thick paper or card (white or coloured)

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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