Enviroweek - Switching Off Impact

Enviroweek - Switching Off Impact

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit

  • Secondary
  • Year 7 - 10
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Environmental
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Technology
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Lesson summary

The Enviroweek Sparky Action encourages students to use energy smartly by “switching off” or “dressing for impact”. This resource is presented in the form of three separate but linked activities.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • collect data about household energy consumption
  • demonstrate ability to work independently to read and follow instructions
  • perform mathematical calculations to complete activity
  • communicate effectively in fair and considered class-wide discussion on issues
  • demonstrate ability to support personal opinion on issues with independent research (extension)
  • rethink everyday energy use behaviours and take action to reduce their personal impact.

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Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 7 Science:

  • Some of Earth’s resources are renewable, but others are non-renewable (ACSSU116)

Year 7 English:

  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to promote a point of view or enable a new way of seeing (ACELY1720)
  • Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725)

Year 8 Science:

  • Energy appears in different forms including movement (kinetic energy), heat and potential energy, and causes change within systems (ACSSU155)

Year 8 Mathematics:

  • Investigate techniques for collecting data, including census, sampling and observation (ACMSP284)
  • Explore the practicalities and implications of obtaining data through sampling using a variety of investigative processes (ACMSP206)

Year 8 English

  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content, including multimodal elements, to reflect a diversity of viewpoints (ACELY1731)
  • Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that raise issues, report events and advance opinions, using deliberate language and textual choices, and including digital elements as appropriate (ACELY1736)

Year 9 Mathematics:

  • Identify everyday questions and issues involving at least one numerical and at least one categorical variable, and collect data directly and from secondary sources (ACMSP228)

Year 9 English:

  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for aesthetic and playful purposes (ACELY1741)
  • Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or illustrate arguments, including texts that integrate visual, print and/or audio features (ACELY1746)

Year 10 English:

  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to influence a course of action (ACELY1751)
  • Create sustained texts, including texts that combine specific digital or media content, for imaginative, informative, or persuasive purposes that reflect upon challenging and complex issues (ACELY1756)

Syllabus outcomesSC4-12ES, SC4-10PWEN4-4B, EN5-1A, EN5-2A.

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking, Literacy, Numeracy.

Cross-curriculum priorities: Sustainability OI.8.

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