Exploring the Systems We Live In

Exploring the Systems We Live In

  • Secondary
  • Year 7 - 8
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Geography
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Sustainability
  • Social
  • Social Action
  • ...

Lesson summary

Students will explore and propose sustainable strategies for enhancing a place's liveability by analysing a local product, business or corporation. They will view videos from the feature documentary Future Council, investigate different systems, and explore businesses that operate in regenerative and/or circular systems.

Learning intentions

Students will:

  • explore the concept of the circular economy and its impact on sustainability
  • understand how strategies can be used to promote environmental action and awareness.

Success criteria

Students can:

  • explain the principles of the circular economy and its benefits
  • analyse how sustainable strategies can influence individual and collective action.

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Lesson details

Skills

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

  • critical thinking
  • collaboration
  • community engagement
  • digital literacy
  • problem solving

Curriculum Mapping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 7 & 8, Geography

Year 7:

Students learn about

  • strategies used to enhance the liveability of a place, including for young people, the aged or those with disability, drawing on studies such as those from Australia or Europe (AC9HG7K08)

Year 8:

Students learn about

  • strategies to manage the sustainability of Australia’s changing urban places (AC9HG8K09)

Relevant parts of Year 7 & 8 achievement standards: Students describe how the characteristics of places are perceived and valued differently by people. They describe the importance of the environment to people. They explain responses or strategies to address a geographical phenomenon or challenge, referring to environmental, economic or social factors.

General capabilities: Ethical Understanding, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - Facilitate class discussions and activities.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Resources Required

  • Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
  • Poster paper
  • Student devices
  • Student Worksheet
  • Sticky notes
  • Whiteboard

Additional Info

Future Council is a Regen Studios film co-produced with Tebbernekkel. Cool.org and Regen Studios would like to acknowledge the generous contributions of Shark Island Foundation, LEEAF, Alberts I The Tony Foundation, Documentary Australia and our philanthropic partners in the development of these teaching resources. These lessons have been created in partnership with Regen Studios & Regenerators.

Related Professional Learning

Using The Cool.org Act Framework In The Classroom - Secondary

Quick Summary: This course will help you provide strategies and tactics for enabling action in order to give students a sense of hope for their futures.

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