Looking After Places

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• cultural understanding
• reflection
• social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 1 and 2, HASS (Geography)

• the natural, managed and constructed features of local places, and their location (AC9HS1K03)
• how places change and how they can be cared for by different groups including First Nations Australians (AC9HS1K04)

• how places can be spatially represented in geographical divisions from local to regional to state/territory, and how people and places are interconnected across those scales (AC9HS2K03)
•  the interconnections of First Nations Australians to a local Country/Place (AC9HS2K04).

Relevant parts of Year 1 and 2 HASS achievement standards: Students can identify the location and nature of the natural, managed and constructed features of local places, the ways people change, and how they can be cared for by people. They identify the significance of a local person, group, place and/or building. Students identify how people and places are interconnected both at local and broader scales.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

• describes features of places and the connections people have with places (GE1-1)
• identifies ways in which people interact with and care for places (GE1-2).

General capabilities: Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion and explicit teaching.

UN SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

• Target 15.5: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species.

• Student worksheet (one per student)
• Whiteboard
• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material

This lesson has been developed in partnership with the Conservation Regulator, a government agency responsible for regulation of fire prevention, use of public land, wildlife and biodiversity. Through a combination of enforcement and education activities, the Conservation Regulator aims to maintain the health and heritage of these landscapes for future generations to enjoy.

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