Outdoor Learning - The Giving Tree

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions - HASS - Business and Economics
Students learn to:

• identify types of resources, including natural, human and capital, and how they satisfy needs and wants (AC9HS5K08)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking,Personal and Social Capability.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:

By the end of Year 5, students explain the nature of resources, and how they meet needs and wants.

• Cardboard pieces x 6
• Nature Diamond Poem Template x 6
• Text: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.
• Thick textas/markers x 6
• Tree Diamond Poem Template - one per student. 

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

• communication
• critical thinking

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - guiding the lesson and assisting students, as needed.

This lesson is designed to be taught outside. It contains all the tools required for students to reap the benefits of being outdoors while learning the outcomes of the Australian Curriculum. By spending time outdoors and connecting to nature, students are more likely to care for and conserve nature as adults.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

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