The Environmental Impacts of Agriculture

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

• creativity
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Years 5 & 6 Design and Technologies 

Explain how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments (AC9TDE6K03)

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 Design and Technology achievement standards: 

Students explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability.

Syllabus outcomes: ST3-5LW-T

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

UN SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture

• Target 2.4: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality

• Devices with internet and YouTube access for students to use to research case studies
• Environmental Impacts - Key Terms and Definitions sheet
• Materials/tools for creating an image, e.g. using pencils or pens, device for editing or annotating an existing photo or image, access to an AI image generator (e.g. DALL-E on Canva)
• Student Worksheet.

This unit of lessons, along with the other units in the Skills and Jobs For a Transitioned Economy package aims to teach students how to be climate solution entrepreneurs. These lessons will equip students with the relevant skills and knowledge of jobs and career pathways that will be able to sustain our economy once it has transitioned away from fossil fuels. Cool.org thanks our philanthropic partners, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and Boundless Earth, for their generous contributions in helping us to create these resources.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussions, oversee case study analysis and image creation task.

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