Fire Mapping

Syllabus Outcomes: (AC9HG8K04)

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

Relevant parts of Year 8 achievement standards: Students 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.

• Device capable of presenting a website to the class
• Fact sheet – How Do Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples Use Fire To Manage Country?
• Fact sheet – The Maths And Facts Behind The Savanna
• Individual devices capable of accessing the internet
• Print out of www.firenorth.org.au map
• Student Worksheet – one copy per student.

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

• communicating
• critical thinking
• cultural understanding
• collaboration

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

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

• Teach Indigenous Land Management Using Fire
• Teach Caring for Country Using Fire