Lord Howe Island - People Power

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 5 HASS:

• The influence of people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, on the environmental characteristics of Australian places (ACHASSK112)
• The environmental and human influences on the location and characteristics of a place and the management of spaces within them (ACHASSK113)
• Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary sources and secondary sources (ACHASSI095)
• Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI104)
• Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions (ACHASSI105)

Year 5 Science:

• Communicate ideas, explanations and processes using scientific representations in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts (ACSIS093)

Year 6 HASS:

• Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary sources and secondary sources (ACHASSI123)
• Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI132)
• Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions (ACHASSI133)

Year 6 Science:

• The growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their environment (ACSSU094)
• Communicate ideas, explanations and processes using scientific representations in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts (ACSIS110)

Syllabus outcomes: GE3-2, GE3-3, GE3-4, ST3-4WS

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.6, OI.7, OI.9

Relevant parts of Year 5 Science achievement standards: Students communicate their ideas and findings using multimodal texts

Relevant parts of Year 5 HASS achievement standards: Students identify and describe the interconnections between people and the human and environmental characteristics of places, and between components of environments. They identify the effects of these interconnections on the characteristics of places and environments. Students work with others to generate alternative responses to an issue or challenge and present their ideas, findings and conclusions in a range of communication forms using discipline-specific terms and appropriate conventions.

Relevant parts of Year 6 Science achievement standards: Students describe and predict the effect of environmental changes on individual living things. They construct multimodal texts to communicate ideas, methods and findings.

Relevant parts of Year 6 HASS achievement standards: Students reflect on their learning to propose action in response to an issue or challenge and present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of communication forms that incorporate source materials, mapping, graphing, communication conventions and discipline-specific terms.

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Lord Howe Island – Years 5 & 6

Time required: 60 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion, lead students in the model-making activity

• 3D model making materials, such as cardboard, modelling clay or playdough
• Agree Disagree Signs
• Climate Change Factsheet
• Lord Howe Island – Overview Factsheet – optional
• Lord Howe Island Map – optional
• Lord Howe Island Image – optional
• Plastic Waste Factsheet
• String
• Student Worksheets – one copy per student

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

• Communication
• Community engagement
• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving
• Collaboration

If you would like to access additional information about Joshua Yeldham and the photographs of his wonderful exhibition 'Providence'. Please visit the Arthouse Gallery website: Joshua Yeldham - Providence (arthousegallery.com.au/exhibitions/joshua_yeldham/providence) and the artist's website: Joshua Yeldham (www.joshuayeldham.com.au) for exhibitions and his wonderful book: Surrender (joshuayeldham.com.au/the-books). Providence and Surrender were completed during and after his Artist Residency on Lord Howe Island and during his stay at the Capella Lodge (capellalodge.com.au) on Lord Howe Island.