Tuning in
A tuning in activity helps students to define and focus on the issues they will be dealing with in the unit of work.
- Cool Burning Flipped Classroom – Years 7 to 10
- Burning Questions About Climate Change
- Cool Burning Quiz – Years 7 to 10
Finding Out
Students will need to obtain more information about the issues they are going to investigate. They can identify questions of interest and research these either in small groups or on their own. Once information is gathered, it can be shared using chosen communication methods e.g. short presentations. Students can continue finding out by completing a range of investigations, including gathering data. They use appropriate methods to present and communicate what they have found out.
- Fire, Biodiversity And The Tropical Savanna – Year 7 & 8
- Fire As A Traditional Land Management Practice – Year 7
- News Report On The Benefits Of Cool Burning – Year 7 & 8
- The Fire Triangle Model – Year 8
- Fire Mapping – Year 8
- Australia’s Savanna, Fire And Land Management – Year 10
- Caring For Country Using Fire – Year 10
- Climate Change And Cool Burning – Year 10
Drawing Conclusions
Students are provided with activities that help them further develop their ideas and opinions. T hey describe issues from different perspectives. They identify, examine and justify different points of view.
Considering Social Action
Students are given opportunities to apply their learning in real world situations, in the classroom, school, home or the local community.