IPCC - Imagining our Climate Future (Science Assessment task)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 6

Content descriptions: Year 6 Science:

• Electrical energy can be transferred and transformed in electrical circuits and can be generated from a range of sources (ACSSU097)

Relevant parts of the Year 6 Science achievement standards: Students analyse requirements for the transfer of electricity and describe how energy can be transformed from one form to another when generating electricity.

Year 7

Content descriptions: Year 7 Science:

• Some of Earth’s resources are renewable, but others are non-renewable (ACSSU116)
• Solutions to contemporary issues that are found using science and technology, may impact on other areas of society and may involve ethical considerations (ACSHE120)

Relevant parts of the Year 7 Science achievement standards: Students analyse how the sustainable use of resources depends on the way they are formed and cycle through Earth systems.

Syllabus outcomes: ST3-6PW, SC4-12ES, SC4-11PW. 

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – Discuss the IPCC report with students, support them in independent work.

• Example Text – A utopian climate change future (optional)
• Student individual writing materials
• Student Worksheet (optional)
• Whiteboard

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

• Communicating
• Creative thinking
• Global citizenship  

Cool would like to thank the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and The Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation for generously supporting the development of these lessons.