EDU316 2016 Task 1 Part B - UNIT PLANNING Elise Brady - 1080734

Geography: Students examine sustainability in connection to local Indigenous land care management
History: Students examine significance and connection to place in relation to Indigenous Peoples histories.
Date: Lesson Title: KLA(s)/Subjects Year level(s): Duration of lesson:
TBA A series of 5 lessons: 2
Local Field trip unit History and Geography History and 3 Geography
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Curriculum content and learning context
ACARA Content Descriptions V7.5 Learning goals for the unit
Inquiry and Skills Overall
Pose questions to investigate people, events, places and issues (ACHASSI073) Pose questions to investigate places and
Locate and collect information and data from different sources, including observations people connections to these places
(ACHASSI074) Reflect on learning to propose actions in
Interact with others with respect to share points of view (ACHASSI080) response to a local issue
Reflect on learning to propose actions in response to an issue or challenge and Present findings in a digital representation
consider possible effects of proposed actions (ACHASSI081)
Present ideas, findings and conclusions in texts and modes that incorporate digital History
and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms (ACHASSI082)
Share their own and understand others
Knowledge and Understanding - History points of view
Understand the diversity of Indigenous
The diversity of Australia's first peoples and the long and continuous connection of Australians and their connection to land and
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to Country/Place (land, sea, waterways country
and skies) (ACHASSK083)
Geography
Knowledge and Understanding Geography
Understand the importance of natural
The importance of environments, including natural vegetation, to animals and people
environments to animals and people
(ACHASSK088)
Understand how to sustainably manage our
The use and management of natural resources and waste, and the different views on
natural resources and waste
how to do this sustainably (ACHASSK090)
Lessons
Lesson 1 History 60 minutes
Lesson overview
Students will be visited by a local Indigenous
person who will speak to them about the
following topics:
The connections to Country and Place
that Indigenous Australians have
The interconnectedness of Country
and place with Indigenous people and
their identities
Land management practices (both
traditional and modern)
Sustainability practices
Students will have the opportunity to ask
questions and have a group discussion with
our guest speaker.
Lesson sequence
Students will already be in the room when
guest speaker arrives. Speaker will be
greeted and the students reminded of what
he will be talking to them about.
Guest speaker will speak four approximately
30 minutes.
The students will be given approximately 10
minutes to ask questions.
Learning Goals Resources for lesson:
Lesson 1 & 2 History Lesson 1 History
Investigate pre-contact ways of life of the Guest speaker
Aboriginal Peoples; their knowledge of their
environment including land management Lesson 2 History
practices; and their fundamental beliefs
about the interconnectedness of Projector/Projector screen
Country/Place, People, Culture and Identity Computer
Scootle resource- Sharing stories: True Place
Lesson 3 Geography Paper
Colouring pencils
Investigate how knowledge and practices of
local and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Lesson 3 Geography
Islander Peoples are linked to sustainable
use of resources and environments (such as iPads for Internet research
rotational use and harvesting of resources, Books/articles on Indigenous land management
mutton-bird harvesting in Tasmania, the use Students Geography workbooks
Pencils
of fire, and the collection of bush food from
semi-arid rangelands)
Lesson 4 Geography
Lesson 4 Geography
iPads for Internet research
Identify some resources that are produced Students Geography workbooks
by the environment, explore how they are Pencils
used and managed and determine the
sustainability of these practices. Lesson 5 Geography
Lesson 5 Geography iPads
Research/ plans from last lesson
Forecast a probable future relating to an Props
environmental issue (Human habitation Projector
Projector screen
leading to natural environmental destruction)
Identify personal and local behaviours that
could help prevent this outcome
The final 20 minutes will be used for the
guest speaker to tell the students some local
Dreamtime stories.
Lesson 2 History - 70 minutes
Lesson overview
Students will look more closely at the local
Gubbi Gubbi Peoples histories and
connection to Country/Place.
Lesson sequence
Students will be engaged through the use of
visual and audio aspects to the lesson.
Students will be watching four short films
about culture, ancestral beings, beliefs and
country from four Aboriginal or Torres Strait
Islander communities around Australia.
The students will then have 30 minutes to
create a drawing that they feel represents a
story from the above collection.
There will be time at the end of the lesson for and safe use of iPads and the Internet.
the students to share their work with their
peers and explain their drawings.
Safe and Supportive Learning
Environment
Lesson 1 History
Students will be reminded of respectful
speaking, and the way that they should
address their guest speaker.
Students with hearing difficulties will come to
the front of the group so that they can hear
properly.
Students will be reminded to raise their hand
to ask a question.
Lesson 2 History
Students will be reminded to be respectful of
the people who told their stories when
drawing their pictures.
Students will be reminded of the proper use
of sharp pencils.
Lesson 3 Geography
Students will be reminded about the proper
Students will be reminded of the proper use
of sharp pencils.
Lesson 4 Geography
Students will be reminded of the proper use
of sharp pencils.
EXCURSION Students will be reminded about the proper
and safe use of iPads and the Internet.
Students will be going on the excursion
between the second and third lessons. This Lesson 5 Geography
has been intended to give the students just Students will be reminded about the proper
enough information to understand and and safe use of iPads and the Internet.
appreciate the excursion, but not so much
that they cant absorb it without seeing it
physically. Students will be reminded about the proper
and safe use of the props.
The excursion is heavily linked with this unit
of work. Students will be visiting a number of
sites across the Sunshine Coast that are of
importance or significance to local
Indigenous Peoples. As well as this,
students will also visit artifact sites that will
teach them about the local Indigenous way
of life and land care management practices.

The duration of this excursion will be spent

with a guide who has connections to the
local Indigenous Peoples. This will allow for
the students to get real knowledge and
understanding of local Indigenous People
and their practices. Throughout the day the
guide will tell the students stories, take
questions and tell them the histories of the
local Indigenous Peoples.

This excursion is going to assist the students

to complete their assessment as they will be
required to take on the persona of a Local
Indigenous person from pre-contact days
and write a journal entry of their experience
when they travelled to the future. The
students will be able to see the places and
sorts of things that they will need to address
in their journal entries.

Lesson 3 Geography 60 minutes

Lesson overview

Students will look more closely at Indigenous

land management practices, particularly
rotational use and harvesting of resources
and the use of fire.

Lesson sequence

Students will be engaged through being out

into groups for the lesson. They will be
asked to research one of the following
topics:

Traditional Indigenous Australian

Peoples land management practices
Modern Indigenous Australian
Peoples land management practices

Students will be given 45 minutes to

research the topic and collate their findings
into a short presentation intended for their
peers.

Students will present their findings in the last

10 minutes. There will be 10 minutes for a
class discussion.
Lesson 4 Geography - 60 minutes

Lesson overview

This lesson will look at some resources

produced by the environment. Students will
look at water and coal; how these are used
and managed and assess the sustainability
of these practices. The use of iPads will be
utilised to engage the students.

Lesson sequence

The lesson will begin with a short (5 minute)

introduction to both water and coal and
Australias production history of these natural
resources.
The students will then be working in groups
to research either water or coal. They will be
required to look at how it used and why we
need it, as well as how it is managed and
rejuvenated or depleted. They will have 30
minutes to research this.

Students will then have 20 minutes to

discuss in their groups the trailer for a
documentary that they will be required to
create in the next lesson. The plot to this
movie will be: The world in 100 years if we
keep using and managing water/coal the
way we are in Australia.

There will be 10 minutes left in the lesson for

the students to share their ideas and get
feedback from the teacher and other groups.
Lesson 5 Geography - 60 70 minutes

Lesson overview

Students will create a trailer for a

documentary on iMovie. The plot to this
movie will be:

The world in 100 years if we keep using and

managing water/coal the way we are in
Australia.

Lesson sequence

Students will have ten minutes to peruse and

make any changes to their plan. The
students will then have 45 minutes to
complete this task, using the research and
plan that was made in the last lesson.
Teacher will have prepared a number of
props for them to use.

Students will share their work with their

peers at the end of the lesson.
 Evidence gathering and Assessment
Evidence gathering
Lesson 1 & 2 History
Goal
Investigate pre-contact ways of life of the Aboriginal
Peoples; their knowledge of their environment including
land management practices; and their fundamental
beliefs about the interconnectedness of Country/Place,
People, Culture and Identity
Evidence
Evidence for achievement of this learning goal will be
gathered through the observation of the students. A
general note will be written about the students
engagement in the lesson.
Lesson 3 Geography
Goal
Investigate how knowledge and practices of local and
other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are
linked to sustainable use of resources and environments
(such as rotational use and harvesting of resources,
mutton-bird harvesting in Tasmania, the use of fire, and
the collection of bush food from semi-arid rangelands)
Evidence
Evidence for achievement of this learning goal will be
gather through both observation and the drawing that the
students create.
Lesson 4 Geography
Goal
Identify some resources that are produced by the
Assessment
Students will be required to write two
journal entries as part of their
homework. These journal entries will
make up the most part of their
assessment grade.
The first journal entry will be from the
point of view of a local Indigenous
person who has come to the future from
pre contact times and sees what their
Land has become.
The second journal entry will be from
their own point of view in a world where
they have travelled 300 hundred years
into the future that was proposed in their
trailer.
Students will have to address a number
of criteria in their journal entries:
What the future looks like
compared to the world they know
How do they feel about the
future?
Have the countries natural
resources been well managed
and thoughtfully used?
What would they do, if anything,
to better the land management
practices of the present to
change the outcome of the
future?
environment, explore how they are used and managed
and determine the sustainability of these practices.

Evidence

Evidence for the achievement of this learning goal will be

gathered through both observation and the research
notes that the students make.

Lesson 5 Geography

Goal
Forecast a probable future relating to an environmental
issue (Human habitation leading to natural environmental
destruction)

Identify personal and local behaviours that could help

prevent this outcome

Evidence

Evidence for the achievement of this learning goal will be

the observation of the trailers that the students create.