The Role of Soil in Agriculture

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

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• curiosity
• problem-solving

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)
• Investigate needs or opportunities for designing and the materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions (AC9TDE6P01)

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 

https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal2#targets_and_indicators

• 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 capable of internet access for students
• Device capable of sharing a YouTube video with the class
• Infographic Rubric
• 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: High - lead students in soil tests and class discussions.

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.