Eco-Warriors

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

• adaptability
• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• community engagement
• curiosity
• digital literacy
• empathy
• global citizenship
• reflection

UN SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

• Target 15.5: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species.

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 5, HASS

• the influence of people, including First Nations Australians and people in other countries, on the characteristics of a place (AC9HS5K04)

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards: Students explain the influence of people on the characteristics of places and in the management of spaces.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student

• examines global citizenship and how people organise, protect and sustainably use the environment, using geographical information (HS3-GEO-01)

General capabilities: Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - Share presentations with the class and facilitate student discussion.

• device to display presentation to class
• devices for students to conduct online research
• Student Worksheet (1 per student)

Since Disney released The Lion King, in 1994 and the world fell in love with its story of adventure, friendship, and family on the savanna, Africa has lost half of its lions.

In 2019, Disney released the groundbreaking live-action adaptation of The Lion King and teamed up with the Wildlife Conservation Network’s Lion Recovery Fund and its partners to help bring back lions in the wild. Through this collaboration, Disney and the Wildlife Conservation Network’s Lion Recovery Fund encouraged audiences to “Protect the Pride,” urging fans and wildlife lovers around the world to participate in the conservation of lions and their habitats and help support local people who live alongside lions.

Now, five years later, with the release of Mufasa: The Lion King in theatres on December 19, Disney and the Lion Recovery Fund are teaming up again to continue efforts to Protect the Pride, celebrate successes to date, and grow hope for a future where lions and people thrive.

Find out more about how you can Protect the Pride here (disney.com.au/mufasa-the-lion-king-protect-the-pride).

Cool.org would like to extend our thanks to the Lion Recovery Fund and the Zambian Carnivore Programme (zambiacarnivores.org/programme) for their contribution of data, imagery and stories from the field to bring these resources to life. The Zambian Carnivore Programme (ZCP) is a Zambian-registered non-profit organisation dedicated to conserving large carnivores and the ecosystems they reside in through a combination of conservation science, conservation actions, and a comprehensive education and capacity-building effort. We would particularly like to thank PhD candidates Anna Kusler and Johnathan Reyes de Merkle and wish them the best of luck with their continued research.

Using The Cool.org Hope Framework In The Classroom - Primary

Quick summary: Cool.org recognises that students can sometimes be exposed to upsetting issues when exploring real-world topics in the classroom. Using a hopeful mindset in these moments can provide a psychological safety net for you and your students. 

The Cool.org Hope Framework includes strategies and tactics for adopting a hopeful mindset. This course will explain the benefits of hope to your students and provide practical examples of how to use our Framework in your classroom.