Shaping the Future Together

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

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• leadership
• global citizenship
• problem solving

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 9 & 10, English

Year 9:

Students learn to

• analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect contexts (AC9E9LY01)

Year 10:

Students learn to

• understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly, reveals an individual’s values (AC9E10LA02)

Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 achievement standards:  Students analyse representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how texts respond to contexts. They analyse and evaluate representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how interpretations of these may be influenced by readers and viewers.

General capabilities: Ethical Understanding, Literacy, Numeracy, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - Facilitate class discussions and activities.

UN SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

• Target 16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.

• Activity sheet - Youth-led governance case studies 
• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• Student devices
• Student Worksheet
• Whiteboard

Future Council is a Regen Studios film co-produced with Tebbernekkel. Cool.org and Regen Studios would like to acknowledge the generous contributions of Shark Island Foundation, LEEAF, Alberts I The Tony Foundation, Documentary Australia and our philanthropic partners in the development of these teaching resources. These lessons have been created in partnership with Regen Studios & Regenerators.

Communicating Climate Change with Confidence and Courage

Quick Summary: This course provides a balanced approach to teaching climate solutions, exploring the science, and emphasising both individual and systemic actions while maintaining hope and agency.