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Many argue whether it is valuable to teach sustainability to young students and analyse whether it provides benefits within our society. However,
it has been analysed that educating about sustainability has lead to students contributing to a more sustainable future in terms of environmental
integrity, economic viability and adjust society for present and future generations (DSEWPC, 2010, P.4). Before all documentation was provided
regarding the implementation of sustainability within the curriculum, the Sustainable School Initiative (AuSSI) (2003) had implemented a program
with the Australian Government, Independent and Catholic schools. This program ensured that students, staff and the community where able to
implement this whole-of-school approach to improve the students learning experiences (Cutter-Mackenzie & Hoepper, 2014). The program
ensured that the community were managing the schools resources and materials, through the use of measuring the energy, waste, water,
products and materials (Cutter-Mackenzie & Hoepper, 2014). It essentially focused on building the students knowledge of the world and how
they live and possible opportunities they could create by being sustainable (Cutter-Mackenzie & Hoepper, 2014). Eventually, there was 3000
schools participating in AuSSI by 2010, and continuing to grow (Cutter-Mackenzie & Hoepper, 2014).
The Australian Government discusses the severe importance of the role that education has on improving Australias sustainability. Educators are
able to provide emphasis on knowledge, skills and values that are required of students, to ensure they have a sustainable future (Australian
Government, 2009). Education is able to motivate and encourage the students to respond to the complexity of sustainability and the issues that
they may encounter within their personal and working lives (Australian Government, 2009). Educators have the ability to equip students with the
relevant skills and capacity to motivate the students to change their sustainable practices. These skills need to be utilised to ensure the students
are able to make connections between relevant sustainable issues, which include, environmental, economic, social and political systems
(Australian Government, 2009). Educating sustainability allows the students to develop critical thinking skills, as they are able to reflect on their
personal experiences and engage within worldviews and adjust accordingly (Australian Government, 2009). This provides a valuable benefit for
their learning experiences, additionally the environmental sustainability. As educators have a substantial role in providing a sustainable future for
our students, we are able to communicate the vital concepts and principles, which will provide a valuable step to obtain a sustainable community
(Australian Government, 2009).
Learning intentions: Key concepts and skills
Key Understandings (knowledge) At the conclusion of this unit students will be able to:
At the end of this unit, students will: Track cause and effect- how the environment is
1. Develop an understanding of sustainability, and what that may look
effected by our actions
like and begin to understand reduce, reuse, and recycle method.
Problem solve- create and identify ways to
2. Understanding that resources are limited and are able to provide
implications for people.
establish and maintain a sustainable environment
Brainstorm- suggesting ideas in a group setting to
3. Motivate the students to participate in ethical practice, which
supports local issues. identify a range of issues and solutions.
4. The importance of adjusting to an evolving environment and the Use technology (and other forms of
significance of flexibility for the constant changes. communication) - to raise awareness in the school
5. Understand how the actions can affect the basic needs of future
and local community on how to act ethically
generations.
6. Develop knowledge of how people and the environment are linked, towards sustainable issues.
enabling them to think globally and act locally. Evaluate- current practices at school or home and
compare it to standard by government and other
organisations of what is means to be
environmentally friendly and sustainable.
(Thoughtful Learning 2016)
Victorian Curriculum areas covered in this inquiry unit related to Humanities
Discipline Knowledge Code Concepts /Skills Code
History
Geography Natural, managed and constructed VCGGK068 Identify and describe the features of places at a VCGGC057
features of places, their location and how local scale and how they change, recognising
they change. that people describe the features of places
differently
Reasons why some places are special and VCGGK069 VCDSTS013
some places are important to people and Identify how people create familiar designed
how they can be looked after solutions and consider sustainability to meet
personal and local community needs
Week 3-4 2. Understanding Use the ecological footprint quiz (Earth Reasons why some
places are special
that resources Day Network, 2016) with the class. Discuss and some places
are limited and the different areas of food, waste, are important to
are able to pollution, electricity etc. Students can people and how
they can be looked
provide indicate areas they can improve in and after VCGGK069
implications for create action plan to do so. Students can
people. see how their ideas could make a
difference to their ecological footprint.
Read The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (1971). Ask Reasons why some
places are special
what happened to the environment? and some places
What do you think might happen if we are important to
used all our water and trees to make people and how
they can be looked
things? What ways do we use water and after VCGGK069
energy every day? What ways can we Other Capabilities:
conserve those resources? What did VCECD002
people do before appliances were
invented? Demonstrate how much water
can be lost as one student brushes their
teeth while other fill up jugs with water.
Use all that water on the school garden Reasons why some
(Atkinson 2016, para. 6). places are special
and some places
are important to
Ask an Indigenous member of the people and how
community to discuss with the class the they can be looked
after VCGGK069
traditional ways of treating and using the Identify and
land. Using the video Dreamtime Stories- describe the
Tiddalick the Frog (2012) as an example, features of places at
a local scale and
have the students create their own how they change,
sustainability based (involving pollution, recognising that
litter, land clearing, water or energy people describe the
features of places
conservation) dreamtime stories to share differently
involving the implications for those in the VCGGC057
story. (could be shown at assembly) Other Capabilities:
VCICCD003
Week 11- 6. Develop Visit botanical garden and using camera Identify and
describe the
12 knowledge of allows students to take photos of anything features of places at
how people and they think is important. Students can use a local scale and
the those photos to create a map of the how they change,
recognising that
environment garden, and pretending they are a guide people describe the
are linked, to take others on a tour and point out features of places
enabling them sustainable features. Students will point differently
VCGGC057
to think globally out natural and man-made areas, the Reasons why some
and act locally. benefits of the garden to the community, places are special
the sustainable and not so sustainable and some places
are important to
features of the park, and how they can people and how
improve the garden. they can be looked
after VCGGK069
Other Capabilities:
VCPSCSO014
Watch Great Pacific Garbage Patch
(2013) and students will develop an action Identify how people
create familiar
plan to respond to the issue. Using the designed solutions
knowledge from the past weeks, students and consider
will assume the role of government sustainability to
meet personal and
figures who need to do something about local community
the waste by working in local needs VCDSTS013
communities. Students will work together Other Capabilities:
VCECD002
to pick a topic in the school or wider VCPSCSO014
community that needs to change through
peoples action and develop a campaign
to voice their ideas. Could lead into a
debate, if students disagree with
proposed actions.
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