How Can Groups Help Biodiversity?

How Can Groups Help Biodiversity?

Lesson 10 of 11 in this unit

  • Cool+
  • Primary
  • Year 5
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Social
  • Indigenous Education
  • ...

Lesson summary

Students work collaboratively to develop group actions to help protect and conserve biodiversity in their local landscapes.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • understand some of the actions people can take to manage Australian environments. 

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • conduct research
  • create S.M.A.R.T goals
  • plan and enact a social enterprise aimed at improving the biodiversity of a local.

Partner acknowledgement

Cool.org would like to acknowledge the support of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ltd (NAILSMA) in creating these resources.

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Student Worksheet

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Lesson details

Curriculum mapping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

Geography:

Students learn to:

  • the management of Australian environments, including managing severe weather events such as bushfires, floods, droughts or cyclones, and their consequences (AC9HS5K05)

Cross Curriculum Priority: SustainabilityAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:
By the end of Year 5, students explain the influence of people on the characteristics of places and in the management of spaces. 

Resources required

  • Device capable of presenting a website to the class
  • Individual devices capable of accessing the internet
  • Materials for communication piece, such as poster-making materials or desktop publishing programs
  • Project Planning Tool guide - one copy per group
  • Project Roles guide - one copy per group
  • Project Checklist - one copy per group
  • S.M.A.R.T. Criteria guide - one copy per group
  • Student Worksheet - one copy per student

Skills

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

  • communication
  • critical thinking
  • problem solving
  • collaboration

Additional info

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

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