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Students use what they have learned and identify further issues to produce a set of school tips to reduce stormwater pollution.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

identify the common causes of stormwater pollution in the school ground.
relate the school community’s behaviour to the causes of many of the problems.
suggest tips that can fix the problems.

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Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 7 Science:

Summarise data, from students’ own investigations and secondary sources, and use scientific understanding to identify relationships and draw conclusions (ACSIS145)
Communicate ideas, findings and solutions to problems using scientific language and representations using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS148)

Year 7 English:

Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that raise issues, report events and advance opinions, using deliberate language and textual choices, and including digital elements as appropriate (ACELY1736)

Year 8 Science:

Summarise data, from students’ own investigations and secondary sources, and use scientific understanding to identify relationships and draw conclusions (ACSIS130)
Communicate ideas, findings and solutions to problems using scientific language and representations using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS133)

Year 8 English:

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725)

Syllabus Outcomes: SC4-7WS, SC4-9WS, EN4-4B.

Year levels: 7 and 8

Indoor or outdoor activity: Indoor
Time required: 20 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Keep activity open-ended, bring students’ ideas together at the end of the activity.

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School clean stormwater tips

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