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The Flipped Lesson

This lesson provides the opportunity for students to build their current knowledge, attitudes and values. While working independently, students are to view the video and complete the visual thinking table below.

This visual thinking tools can be useful in examining how and why student thinking has changed based on learning specific content information. It also helps to develop their reasoning abilities and recognising cause and effect relationships.

Cool Australia Presents....Sustainability (https://vimeo.com/85203625)

Teachers will also gain insight from students’ responses which can be used to plan follow up lessons from the persuasive writing.

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Sustainability describes the ability for something to keep going at the same rate and in the same condition as before.

It is tempting to think that because we are at the top of the food chain we should be able to do anything we want and it will be sustainable to keep doing it for as long as we like. Unfortunately nature does not work like this – our planet is finite. Every living system can only take so much exploitation before it starts to weaken and decline. When this decline reaches a tipping point the living system is finished and can never reclaim its former glory.

Being sustainable is something that has only occurred to many of us recently. Some of us are yet to even consider it. Unless we all decide that living sustainably is an important thing to aspire to and achieve it will be very tricky to convince anyone else. We are always too busy, putting a meal on the table, doing our homework, upgrading our gadgets, meeting our deadlines caring for our families and friends to stop and pause to look at our bigger picture. How do we get ourselves to pay attention to and act selfishly for our greater good and see past our front door?

Sustainability is a tricky topic that has a huge number of different definitions. These definitions vary according to the person or agency using the definition. While it’s important to understand that there are a range of definitions, the most important thing is for students to develop their own understanding of sustainability and take informed action.

Flipped Classroom - Tuning into Sustainability

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