Outcomes: › Explains how biological understanding has advanced through scientific discoveries, technological developments and the needs of society SC5-15LW
Content: LW2 Conserving and maintaining the quality and sustainability of the environment requires scientific understanding of interactions within, the cycling of matter and the flow of energy through ecosystems
Students: e. Assess ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ cultural practices and knowledge of the environment contribute to the conservation and management of sustainable ecosystems
Cross curriculum priorities:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
- Sustainability
Task: Students are to conduct research on how the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s cultural practices have contributed to the conservation and management of sustainable ecosystems. This information will be presented in the form of a poster.
Flipped classroom: All the necessary research and learning must be done at home before class. Class time will only be for creating and presenting your posters.
The poster must include:
- What it means to sustain ecosystems
- Identification of traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sites
- Exploration of different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s practices and how they have lead to the conservation and management of sustainable ecosystems
- Importance of ecosystems
- Analysis of human and natural forms of degradation
- Other ways to sustain ecosystems
- Imagery and lots of creativity
Instructions: At home
- Before coming to class please explore the videos/websites below at home. You are expected to conduct further research on the items to be presented on the poster, whether it be through additional videos or research papers.
- Please form 5 groups of 4 (one group will have 5 members)
- Gather together the necessary information you will need for class,remember the more organised everyone is and the more work each group member does at home, the better and well structured your poster.
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- Please head to this website https://wilderquest.nsw.gov.au/campfire360. Here you will watch desktop virtual reality tours of Aboriginal lands.
- Additional resources:
- https://vimeo.com/15857848
- https://vimeo.com/15859585
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TlmfNsrNiI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FcJezLo5Xs
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vL9WZ9xYUg
- https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/nswcultureheritage/placesofsignificance.htm
- https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/land/aboriginal-land-care
- https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Environment/Land-management/Indigenous
- https://www.environment.gov.au/indigenous/index.html
- https://schoolsequella.det.nsw.edu.au/file/6fccb196-b448-40b3-abd8-64dc662b8079/1/NSWEcosystems.zip/index.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_FQ2cpHNGw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sURuHk4Ll8s
-students may bring poster decorating equipment from home if they wish to do so. If not, various items will be provided in class. *images for poster must be provided by students.
In class
- Hoping all students have the necessary information needed for todays lesson. Please get into your groups, come to the front of the class where you will find cardboard posters and additional decorating tools/equipment to create your poster.
- You have 30 minutes to prepare, leaving 15 minutes at the end for all groups to present their poster and discussion time.
- Good luck and have fun
Feedback: student self and peer-assessment will take place during presentations, this is where positive feedback from other students can occur, as well as direct teacher observations.
Ecosystems 