Writing about Climate Change - Comic Strips about Mountain Pygmy Possums

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

Year 5 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)

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:
By the end of Year 5, students use language features including topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices. Students explain how language features including literary devices, and visual features contribute to the effect and meaning of a text. They 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. Students use language features including complex sentences, tenses, topic-specific vocabulary and literary devices, and/or multimodal features. They spell using phonic, morphemic and grammatical knowledge.

• Art supplies - coloured textas and pencils
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Student Worksheet – one per student
• Template - Comic Book Templates - Possums (optional)

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

• communication
• creativity
• digital literacy

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion, scaffold comic strip composition.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

How To Teach Sustainability With Hope

Quick Summary: This course is for both primary and secondary teachers of all subjects, but especially for English, Science, Humanities and Geography teachers who are covering climate change and the cross-curriculum priority of sustainability.