Containers for Change WA - Spread the Word

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

• creativity
• collaboration
• communication
• community engagement
• digital literacy
• initiative

Western Austalian Curriculum - Year 6, English

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1714)

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions - English

• Students will plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features (AC9HS6S06)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Literacy

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Relevant parts of Year 6 achievement standards: 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. They use text structures and vary paragraphs to organise, develop and link ideas. They use and vary language features including sentence structures, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features. They spell using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1714)

UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

• Target 12.2: By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

• Device to show digital content to students
• Devices for students to film and edit videos on (e.g. iPad)
• Video editing software (e.g. iMove or VideoLeap)
• Worksheet: Containers for Change Video

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - Students may require support to manage the planning and execution of their videos.