Sustainability: Making a difference at home.

Topic and
Focus

Time of

Tuesday 11.30am-

Class

Lesson

12.50am

Size

Year

Science: Sustainability

Level

Supervis
or

18

Judy Haysom

Learning Focus:
AUSVELS
Strands Level:

Domains

Code

Scientific understandings, discoveries and

inventions are used to inform personal and
community decisions and to solve problems that

Key elements of standards

Science understandings are used to inform

Science

(VCSSU073)

personal and community decisions and to

solve problems that affect peoples lives.

directly affect peoples lives.

Discuss how ethical principles can be used as
the basis for action, considering the influence of

Ethical

cultural norms, religion, world views and

Capability

philosophical thought on these principles.

(VCECU010)

Ethical principles can be used as the basis

for action.

Resources and Materials

Interactive whiteboard
YouTube video: fairy tale of sustainability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKWQuU0sHPw
Calculate your eco footprint http://www.wwf.org.au/our_work/people_and_the_environment/human_footprint/footprint_calculator/
A4 white paper
Coloured pencils/textas
Student Teacher Focus

Behaviour Management and Time Management

Students dont talk over the top of each other.

Waterfall, shhhhh.

Stop 3,2,1 to regain student attention.

Ensure my standard of an appropriate noise level is not compromised.

Hands up when students want to speak.

Ensure students have enough time to work on the poster.

Stage of

Time

Tasks

lesson
Stage 1

Discuss sustainability and what students know/dont know. If their understanding is poor
give them some ideas and guide them to answers. Should we. What impact does

Introduction

plastic have.Is it okay too.. Who does it affect..

15 mins

Has anyone heard of an ecological footprint? It is a measure of the impact humans have
on the environment.

Lets work out ecological footprint as a class (interactive game)

http://www.wwf.org.au/our_work/people_and_the_environment/human_footprint/footprint
_calculator/

Discuss results of quiz. How many earths do we need if we keep acting like this? Can we
just find another earth? No, so maybe we need to make some changes!

Stage 2 Body

of lesson

Watch youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKWQuU0sHPw . Discuss the

Stage 3: Conclusion

meaning of the video. What did you think this video meant? What was it talking about?
The actions of humans have been impacting the earth some negative but some also
positive. What were some of the things that were bad for the environment and what
were some of the things that were better? These big changes such as wind power, water
power, solar power are great and have a huge impact but we can also do small things
ourselves, that when lots of people do them they make a difference.
Students may be feeling gloomy about the situation so it is important to reassure them
that we can turn things around and our actions can have a positive impact.

5 mins

Students are to create an A4 poster that encourages the community to change their
actions to work towards a more sustainable future.

Discuss what changes we can make at home that would have a positive impact on the
environment. Use less water, get solar panels, recycle as much as we can, compost,
have a native garden etc.

Stage 5: Closure

Show some examples of posters to help them gather their ideas.

Students may use textas and pencils on an A4 piece of paper.

Gallery Walk: students walk around the room and look at one anothers posters.
Display the posters on the wall

60 Minutes