First Nations’ Fish Traps

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• curiosity
• intercultural understanding

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 6 Design and Technologies

• explain how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments (AC9TDE6K01)

Relevant parts of Year 6 achievement standards:

Students can explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability and describe how individuals and communities use scientific knowledge.

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding, Personal and Social Capability

Syllabus outcomes: ST3-5LW-T

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

UN SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

• Target 15.3: By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world.
• Target 15.5: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species.

• Device capable of displaying audio-visual material
• A sheet of blank paper per student

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.

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.