Lesson summary
After exploring the benefits and impacts of the Containers for Change Initiative throughout this unit, it’s time for students to make their own impact on their community. By creating a behaviour change campaign video, students will be able to connect with their local community and promote the social, economic and environmental benefits of participating in Containers for Change.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts by creating a promotional video
Success criteria:
Students can...
- use digital tools to film
- use digital tools to edit a video
- use relevant and inviting backdrops
- make use of specific persuasive techniques
- identify and include pertinent information
- engage the audience through vocabulary, intonation and gesture.
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Lesson details
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- creativity
- collaboration
- communication
- community engagement
- digital literacy
- initiative
Curriculum Mapping
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 Sustainable Development Goals
UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- Target 12.2: By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
Resources Required
- 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
Additional Info
Level of teacher scaffolding: High - Students may require support to manage the planning and execution of their videos.
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