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Reforestation - What can you do?

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Personal and social capabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority

Cooperative LearningCooperative Learning Activity

 

1. Different forests around Australia have been affected by all sorts of destruction from bushfires, unsustained logging, climate change and the encroachment of cities.

As a group of 4 - 5 students, you are to read the following article from ABC News 23 June 2019 Reading

ABC News

2. Write down as many facts from this news article.

3. What is inspirational in this article?

4. You are to create an advertisement campaign to encourage students in high school to investigate an area that needs reforestation, and, then carried out the process of creating an advertisement.

5. Show all the advertisements and select the one that is most effective as a class. Show this advertisement to the whole school. Ask for volunteers to help establish or re-establish a new forest.

6. Estimate the number of seedlings needed, where you would source these seedlings, the cost and the time and effort required. Can you as a group, class undertake this venture?

 

 

Dead Tree Detective

Call for students and teachers to be part of the Dead Tree Detective! Look at the Auditor to see the activity involved. This is a great way to intergrate Science and Mathematics into a real life project. The project is ongoing.

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Websites, Games & Apps

Forest Learning

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Forest Learning


Wildlife Detective App - NSW

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Wildlife Detective App

Price: FREE
Developer: Snepo Research


Rainforest Alliance

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Rainforest Alliance




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 WebQuests - Environments

Bushfire! WebQuest (developed by Dept of Education Tasmania)

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CriticalAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

ICT Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

Personal and social capabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Cooperative LearningCooperative Learning Activity

 

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Target: Years 9 - 10.

Length of unit:
4-6 weeks

Full Local Document (30 pages including Standards)

Student Worksheet - Local Copy

Australian Bushfires
(Source: BBC)

The Science of Bushfires (Web Archive Only - created in 2002)

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ICT Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

Personal and social capabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Cooperative LearningCooperative Learning Activity

 

Many links would need to be changed but in essence a good WebQuest.

The Science of Bushfires

 

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