Activity: Future school ground

Activity details: Students will develop a vision of a future school ground with a focus on improving its biodiversity. They will identify what they still need to find out and where they can get assistance.

Key lessons and understandings of activity: Students are able to recreate ecosystems to increase the biodiversity in the school ground. Students describe their vision of what their school ground would be like with increased biodiversity.

Module: Biodiversity

Year level: 5 and 6

Indoor or outdoor activity: Indoor

Duration of activity: 40 mins

Learning areas addressed: Geography, Science.

Teacher input: Lead discussion, review students’ findings in this unit when it is relevant.

Resources needed: Whiteboard or smartboard

Homework and extension opportunities: None.

Keywords: biodiversity, ecosystem, conservation, future, vision.

Australian Curriculum Link:

Year 5 English:

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704)

Year 5 Science:

• Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment (ACSSU043)

Year 6 English:

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1714)

Year 6 Science:  

• The growth and survival of living things are affected by the physical conditions of their environment (ACSSU094)

Syllabus Outcomes: ST3-10LW, ST3-11LW, EN3-2A. 

Cool Australia’s curriculum team continually reviews and refines our resources to be in line with changes to the Australian Curriculum.