Pressure On Pride Lands

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• communication
• community engagement
• cultural understanding

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 9, HASS Geography

• Students learn about the effects on environments of human alteration of biomes to produce food, industrial materials and fibres (AC9HG9K02)

Relevant parts of Year 9 achievement standards: Students explain the effects of human activity on environments, and the effects of environments on human activity.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student

• analyses the processes and interactions that transform people, places and environments (GE5-PRI-01)
• accounts for the perspectives of people and organisations on a range of geographical opportunities and challenges (GE5-PER-01)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - oversee class discussions, lead students in case study analysis, and support students in developing their education program.

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.

• Device to share presentation with class
• Student Worksheet (1 per student)

Since Disney released The Lion King, in 1994 and the world fell in love with its story of adventure, friendship, and family on the savanna, Africa has lost half of its lions.

In 2019, Disney released the groundbreaking live-action adaptation of The Lion King and teamed up with the Wildlife Conservation Network’s Lion Recovery Fund and its partners to help bring back lions in the wild. Through this collaboration, Disney and the Wildlife Conservation Network’s Lion Recovery Fund encouraged audiences to “Protect the Pride,” urging fans and wildlife lovers around the world to participate in the conservation of lions and their habitats and help support local people who live alongside lions.

Now, five years later, with the release of Mufasa: The Lion King in theatres on December 19, Disney and the Lion Recovery Fund are teaming up again to continue efforts to Protect the Pride, celebrate successes to date, and grow hope for a future where lions and people thrive.

Find out more about how you can Protect the Pride here (disney.com.au/mufasa-the-lion-king-protect-the-pride).

Cool.org would like to extend our thanks to the Lion Recovery Fund and the Zambian Carnivore Programme (zambiacarnivores.org/programme) for their contribution of data, imagery and stories from the field to bring these resources to life. The Zambian Carnivore Programme (ZCP) is a Zambian-registered non-profit organisation dedicated to conserving large carnivores and the ecosystems they reside in through a combination of conservation science, conservation actions, and a comprehensive education and capacity-building effort. We would particularly like to thank PhD candidates Anna Kusler and Johnathan Reyes de Merkle and wish them the best of luck with their continued research.

Lesson feature image courtesy of Peter Lindsey.

Using The Cool.org Act Framework In The Classroom - Secondary

Quick summary: Empowering students to take action on issues that are important to them is crucial for fostering hope in their futures. Cool.org recognises that supporting students to take meaningful action with students can feel challenging, so we have developed the Cool.org Act Framework.

The Cool.org Act Framework offers a variety of strategies and tactics to facilitate meaningful action across different levels and settings. This course shares action-based resources from Cool.org and provides practical examples for integrating action-oriented learning into your classroom.