How Can Individuals Help Biodiversity?

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: Sustainability, Aboriginal 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. 

• 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
• Student Worksheet - one copy per student

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

• communication
• critical thinking
• problem solving
• collaboration

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

Special thanks to:
Fish River Station, John Daly, Dr Jeremy Russell-Smith, Peter Jacklyn, Peter McConchie, Dr Tommy George, David Claudie, Dale Musgrave, Carolyn George and Victor Steffensen.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

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