Writing about Climate Change - Poems about Butterflies

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

Year 5 English:

Students learn to:

• examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs (AC9E5LE04)

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.

• A device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Student Worksheet – one per student. 

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

• communication
• creativity

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion, prompt key vocabulary.

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.