Exploring Clean Energy

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

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• curiosity
• digital literacy
• problem-solving
• reflection

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.

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 5, English

Students learn to:

• understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources (AC9E5LA02)
• use appropriate interaction skills, including paraphrasing and questioning, to clarify meaning, make connections to their own experiences, and present and justify an opinion or idea (AC9E5LY02).

Year 6, English

Students learn to:

• examine texts, including media texts that represent ideas and events, and identify how they reflect the context in which they are created (AC9E6LY01) 
• use interaction skills and awareness of formality when paraphrasing, questioning, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, and sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions (AC9E6LY02). 

Relevant parts of Year 5 English achievement standards: Students interact with others and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts. For particular purposes and audiences, students share, develop and expand on ideas and opinions, using supporting details from topics or texts. 

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

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student

• communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness by interacting and presenting and by analysing and evaluating for understanding (EN3-OLC-01).

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

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - scaffolding is required when the students are guided through task instructions and reflection.

• Fact vs opinion activity sheet
• Opinion statement cards activity sheet
• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• Highlighters
• Pens
• Sticky notes
• Student devices 
• Thumbs up, thumbs down Visual Explainer

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