Outdoor Learning - Tree-rific Poems

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

English:

Students learn to:

• create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices (AC9E6LE05)

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

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 6 achievement standards:
By the end of Year 6, students create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing, explaining and elaborating on relevant ideas from topics or texts.

• Large pieces of cardboard x 7, labelled with one of the following: Sight, Sound, Touch, Taste, Smell, Thinking, Feeling/Emotion
• Whiteboard markers or thick textas x 7
• Student Worksheet - one copy per student

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

• collaboration
• creativity
• social skills

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - guide and oversee lesson.

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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