General Literacy Numeracy Information and Communication Capabilities Critical and Creative Thinking Ethical Behaviour Technology Personal and Social Competence Explain Engage Explore Elaborate Evaluate EXPLAIN Resources Focus The Great Barrier Reef: Society & – “Primary Discuss the importance of saving Australia’s natural features. Identify national parks in Australia see pg 116 RIC Book for Environment: Book D” – examples and World Heritage Sites see pg 118. Students complete a map to identify. RIC Publications – Focus on The Great Barrier Reef as a natural feature of Queensland. View movie-clips on the ReefED website. Draw students’ attention to the variety of Reef, features, animals, activities and plants. Discuss the uses of the reef and how it influences our local area tourism, employment, marine studies. Reef Beat Posters for – display In groups, students use the worksheet The Great Barrier Reef (in appendix) to research features of the reef. Use websites, books and posters to get information. Ask groups to report back to the class to make a class summary of the questions for display. (This is for background information) Appendix activity Invite an Aboriginal to discuss the significance of the reef (sea country) to the Aboriginal people or use Reef – Beat Posters Sea Country Connections to identify how Aboriginal people have used the reef and how they care – about it. Also can use Reef Ed site Discuss student connections with the reef eg. Finding Nemo or Migaloo (animals they know and care about) – Further Activities: Create posters of the features of the reef View brochures of the reef and identify features Watch DVD Finding Nemo – Visit Reef HQ in Townsville for an excursion Geographical Language Assessment Opportunities Natural heritage refers to the physical and biological environments inherited from generation to generation. National As Learning – parks are a means of saving our natural heritage. Approximately 3200 Australian national parks have been created to research materials
General Capabilities Literacy Critical and Creative Thinking Numeracy Ethical Behaviour Information and Communication Technology Personal and Social Competence Engage Explore Explain Elaborate Evaluate EXPLAIN Resources Focus – The Great Barrier Reef: Discuss the importance of saving Australia’s natural features. Identify national parks in Australia – see pg 116 RIC Book for examples and World Heritage Sites – see pg 118. Students complete a map to identify. Focus on The Great Barrier Reef as a natural feature of Queensland. View movie-clips on the ReefED website. Draw students’ attention to the variety of Reef, features, animals, activities and plants. Discuss the uses of the reef and how it influences our local area – tourism, employment, marine studies. In groups, students use the worksheet The Great Barrier Reef (in appendix) to research features of the reef. Use websites, books and posters to get information. Ask groups to report back to the class to make a class summary of the questions for display. (This is for background information) Invite an Aboriginal to discuss the significance of the reef (sea country) to the Aboriginal people – or use Reef Beat Posters – Sea Country Connections to identify how Aboriginal people have used the reef and how they care about it. Also can use Reef Ed site Discuss student connections with the reef – eg. Finding Nemo or Migaloo (animals they know and care about) Further Activities: Create posters of the features of the reef View brochures of the reef and identify features Watch DVD – Finding Nemo Visit Reef HQ in Townsville for an excursion “Primary Society & Environment: Book D” RIC Publications Reef Beat Posters for display Appendix activity Geographical Language Assessment Opportunities Natural heritage refers to the physical and biological environments inherited from generation to generation. National parks are a means of saving our natural heritage. Approximately 3200 Australian national parks have been created to As Learning – research materials
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