Farming Fibres

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

• creativity
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• community engagement
• enterprise
• initiative

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Years 5 & 6 Design and Technologies 

• Explain how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments (AC9TDE6K03)

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 Design and Technology achievement standards: 

Students explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability.

Syllabus outcomes: ST3-5LW-T

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

• Target 12.2: By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

• Ability to collect a range of clean old cotton items, such as towels, sheets and clothes. These could be sourced from the school community
• Device capable of sharing a YouTube video
• Fibre Mix and Match Sheet
• Student Worksheet

This unit of lessons, along with the other units in the Skills and Jobs For a Transitioned Economy package aims to teach students how to be climate solution entrepreneurs. These lessons will equip students with the relevant skills and knowledge of jobs and career pathways that will be able to sustain our economy once it has transitioned away from fossil fuels. Cool.org thanks our philanthropic partners, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and Boundless Earth, for their generous contributions in helping us to create these resources.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - facilitate class discussions, lead students in Take Action project.

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.