Sustainable Table - The Dairy Diaries

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 7 & 8 Design and Technologies:

• Analyse how food and fibre are produced when designing managed environments and how these can become more sustainable (ACTDEK032)

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 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: SC4-13ES, EN4-4B.

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking, Literacy.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.2, OI.8.

Relevant parts of Year 7 & 8 Design and Technologies achievement standards: Students explain factors that influence the design of products, services and environments to meet present and future needs.

Relevant parts of Year 7 English achievement standards: Students create structured and coherent texts for a range of purposes and audiences. 

Relevant parts of Year 8 English achievement standards: Students create texts for different purposes.

Time required: 60 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – oversee brainstorm and quiz creation.

• Student Worksheet – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a website to the class
• Internet access
• Quiz Sheet (optional)

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

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Critical thinking

This resource was created in collaboration with Sustainable Table with the aim of empowering young people to use their dollar to vote for a food system that is fair, humane, healthy and good for the environment. To learn more about Sustainable Table, click here.