Investigating Media and Clean Energy Narratives

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

• adaptability
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• curiosity
• digital literacy
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 5 and 6, Digital Technologies 

Students learn to:

• select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions (AC9TDI6P07)
• select and use appropriate digital tools to share content online, plan tasks and collaborate on projects, demonstrating agreed behaviours (AC9TDI6P08).

Relevant parts of Year 5 and 6 Digital Technologies achievement standards:  Students develop project plans, including production processes, and select technologies and techniques to safely produce designed or digital solutions. 

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student:

• uses design processes to create, evaluate and modify designed solutions (ST3-DDT-01).

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - the teacher will be required to facilitate discussions throughout this lesson.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

• A variety of age-appropriate online articles, videos, and social media posts about clean energy, in addition to the ones provided in this lesson
• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• Media analysis checklist factsheet
• Student Worksheet
• Information detectives Visual Explainer
• Whiteboard

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