Wild Things - Getting Your Voice Heard

Students explore different mediums for communicating environmental messages and how they have been utilised in the real world by activists in the documentary Wild Things. They then work independently or in small groups to plan and create a piece of environmental activism and share this with an audience.

Wild Things follows a new generation of environmental activists that are mobilising against forces more powerful than themselves and saying: enough. Following a year in the footsteps of School Strike 4 Climate, Stop Adani and Save The Tarkine Rainforest, interwoven with a look at historical campaigns, this film is set to show that every action counts and individuals can make a difference. Access the film here.

The lessons in this unit use the Wild Things documentary to guide students through the environmental movement in Australia, and support students in raising their own voices for an environmental issue that is important to them. We recommend this lesson is used as the fourth lesson in a sequence of learning within this unit.