How Can You Work Towards a Sustainable Future?

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

• critical thinking
• communication
• curiosity
• ethical understanding
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 6 Science

• investigate the physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions AC9S6U01
• investigate how scientific knowledge is used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions AC9S6H02

Relevant parts of Year 6 achievement standards:

Students explain how changes in physical conditions affect living things. They describe how individuals and communities use scientific knowledge.

Syllabus outcomes: ST1-4LW-S

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking

Cross-curriculum priority:  Sustainability

UNSDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

• Target 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

• Devices for students to access the internet
• Student worksheet (1 per student)

This unit of lessons, along with the other units in the Skills and Jobs For a Transitioned Economy package, aim 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.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – direct student research

Inspire Young Scientists in the Primary Classroom

Quick summary: This course will help you teach science experiments in the primary classroom. You will discover how to develop the scientific literacy of students and motivate their interest in learning science.