Fire, Biodiversity, Tropical Savanna

Syllabus Outcomes: AC9HG8K02

Cross Curriculum Priority: Sustainability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures. 

Relevant parts of Year 8 achievement standards: Students describe the effects of human activity or hazards on environments. They explain the features of a distribution and identify implications. They explain the interconnections between people and places and environments. They explain how these interconnections change places or environments. Students explain responses or strategies to address a geographical phenomenon or challenge, referring to environmental, economic or social factors.

• BOLTSS mapping conventions
• Device capable of presenting a website to the class.
• Student Worksheet - one copy per student.
• Factsheet - About The Savanna
• Factsheet - Savanna Regions
• Australian Tropical Savanna PowerPoint.

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

• communication
• critical thinking
• cultural understanding

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - Explain new concepts explicitly, support students in independent work. 

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

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