Wildlife Crime in a Warming World – Protecting What Matters

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

• communication
• community engagement
• curiosity
• ethical understanding

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 9 & 10, Geography

Students learn

• about the interconnections between people, places and environments and the effects of these interconnections (AC9HG9K03)
• environmental changes resulting from human activity and their consequences for sustainability (AC9HG10K01)
• the environmental worldviews of people and their implications for environmental management (AC9HG10K02).

Relevant parts of Year 9&10 achievement standards: Students explain the effects of human activity on environments, and the effect of environments on human activity over time. They evaluate the extent of interconnections occurring between people, places and environments. They analyse changes that result from these interconnections and their consequences.

Victorian Curriculum (v2.0) content description -  Year 9 & 10, Geography

Students learn about:

• human-induced environmental changes and their impacts on the sustainability of places and environmental functions (VC2HG10K10)
• the impacts on places of people’s travel, recreational or cultural choices, and how these can be managed, including those impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their Country and Place (VC2HG10K08).

Relevant parts of Year 9&10 achievement standards: Students explain the impacts of human activity on environments, and the effect of environments on human activity, over time. They evaluate interconnections between people and places and environments. They analyse changes that result from these interconnections and their consequences.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student

• assesses different approaches to the management and protection of places and environments (GE5-MAN-01).

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - Facilitate discussion and act as Trivia Master for team game.

UN SDG 15:   Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

• Target 4.7: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species.

• Activity sheet - Communication Planning Sheet
• Activity sheet - Circles of Influence
• Visual Explainer - Wildlife Crime - It’s Your Call Trivia Game
• Device to share media with students

This lesson has been developed in partnership with the Conservation Regulator, a government agency responsible for regulating fire prevention, the use of public land, wildlife, and biodiversity. Through a combination of enforcement and education activities, the Conservation Regulator aims to maintain the health and heritage of these landscapes for future generations to enjoy.

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