The Fire Triangle Model (Primary)

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

English:

Students learn to:

• plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation (AC9E5LY06)

Cross Curriculum Priority: Sustainability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures. 

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:
By the end of Year 5, students create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing and expanding on ideas with supporting details from topics or texts. 

• Art materials - coloured textas
• Device capable of presenting a website to the class
• Fire Factsheet
• Fire Triangle Image
• Fire Triangle Image - no labels
• White paper - A3 size - one per student. 

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

• communication
• creativity
• critical thinking
• cultural understanding

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - Explicit instruction of students, then support them with independent work. 

Special thanks to:
Fish River Station, John Daly, Dr Jeremy Russell-Smith, Peter Jacklyn, Peter McConchie, Dr Tommy George, David Claudie, Dale Musgrave, Carolyn George and Victor Steffensen.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Teach Caring for Country Using Fire

Quick summary: In this course, you will hear how John Daly uses fire stick techniques to care for Country. John works with scientists and farmers to reduce the impact of bushfires and protect communities.