The workshop content is tailored for years 5 and 6 with key learning areas in Science, Hass (Geography) and cross curriculum priority (sustainability). The workshop and post workshop activities can easily be incorporated into other learning areas.
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Cross Curriculum Priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures: Country/Place | Culture | People
Sustainability: Systems | World views | Design | Futures
Science: Science understanding: Biological sciences: Examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats (AC9S5U01).
Science: Science as a human endeavour: Nature and development of science: Examine why advances in science are often the result of collaboration or building on the work of others (AC9S5H01).
Science: Science as a human endeavour: Use and influence of science: Investigate how scientific knowledge is used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions (AC9S5H02).
Science Inquiry skills: Questioning and predicting: Pose investigable questions to identify patterns and test and make reasoned predictions (AC9S5101).
Planning and conducting: Plan and conduct repeatable investigations to answer questions, including, as appropriate, deciding the variables to be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests; describing potential risks; planning for the safe use of equipment and materials; and identifying required permissions to conduct investigations on Country/Place (AC9S5102), and use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable precision, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S5103).
Processing, modelling and analysing: Construct and use appropriate representations, including tables, graphs and visual or physical models, to organise and process data and information and describe patterns, trends and relationships (AC9S5104).
Evaluating: Compare methods and findings with those of others, recognise possible sources of error, pose questions for further investigation and select evidence to draw reasoned conclusions (AC9S5105).
Communicating: Write and create texts to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S5016).
HASS: Geography: Knowledge and understanding: The influence of people, including First Nations Australians and people in other countries, on the characteristics of a place (AC9HS5K04) and the management of Australian environments, including managing severe weather events such as bushfires, floods, droughts or cyclones, and their consequences (AC9HS5K05).
Skills: Questioning and researching: Develop questions to investigate people, events, developments, places and systems (AC9HS5S01) and locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources in a range of formats (AC9HS5S02).
Interpreting, analysing and evaluating: Evaluate information and data in a range of formats to identify and describe patterns and trends, or to infer relationships (AC9HS5S03) and evaluate primary and secondary sources to determine origin, purpose, and perspectives (AC9HS5S09).
Concluding and decision-making: Develop evidence-based conclusions (AC9HS5S05) and propose actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects (AC9HS5S06).
Communicating: Present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions (AC9HS5S07).
Science: Science understanding: Biological sciences: Investigate the physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions (AC9S6U01).
Science: Science as a human endeavour: Nature and development of science: Examine why advances in science are often the result of collaboration or building on the work of others (AC9S6H01).
Science: Science as a human endeavour: Use and influence of science: Investigate how scientific knowledge is used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions (AC9S6H02).
Science Inquiry skills: Questioning and predicting: pose investigable questions to identify patterns and test relationships and make reasoned predictions (AC9S6101)
Planning and conducting: Plan and conduct repeatable investigations to answer questions, including, as appropriate, deciding the variables to be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests; describing potential risks; planning for the safe use of equipment and materials; and identifying required permissions to conduct investigations on Country/Place (AC9S6102) and use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable precision, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S6103).
Processing, modelling and analysing: Construct and use appropriate representations, including tables, graphs and visual or physical models, to organise and process data and information and describe patterns, trends and relationships (AC9S6104).
Evaluating: Compare methods and findings with those of others, recognise possible sources of error, pose questions for further investigation and select evidence to draw reasoned conclusions (AC9S5105).
Communicating: Write and create texts to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate (AC9S6016).
Economics and business: Influences on consumer choices and strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices (AC9HS6K08).
HASS: Geography: Skills: Questioning and researching: Develop questions to investigate people, events, developments, places and systems (AC9HS6S01) and locate, collect and organise information and data from primary and secondary sources in a range of formats (AC9HS6S02).
Interpreting, analysing and evaluating: Evaluate information and data in a range of formats to identify and describe patterns and trends, or to infer relationships (AC9HS6S03) and evaluate primary and secondary sources to determine origin, purpose, and perspectives (AC9HS6S09).
Concluding and decision-making: Develop evidence-based conclusions (AC9HS6S05) and propose actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects (AC9HS6S06).
Communicating: Present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions (AC9HS6S07).
Science and technology: Living world: ST3-4LW-S: Growth and survival of living things; Adaptations of living things; Sustainably managing environments to source food and fibre.
Geography: Factors that shape places: GE3- 1, 2, 3, and 4: Factors that change environments; Environments shape places; Humans shape places.
Science understanding: Biological sciences: Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment (VCSSU074). The growth and survival of living things are affected by the physical conditions of their environment (VCSSU075).
Science inquiry skills: With guidance, pose questions to clarify practical problems or inform a scientific investigation, and predict what the findings of an investigation might be based on previous experiences or general rules (VCSIS082).
Planning and conducting: With guidance, plan appropriate investigation types to answer questions or solve problems and use equipment, technologies and materials safely, identifying potential risks (VCSIS083).
Recording and processing: Construct and use a range of representations, including tables and graphs, to record, represent and describe observations, patterns or relationships in data (VCSIS085).
Analysing and evaluating: Compare data with predictions and use as evidence in developing explanations (VCSIS086). Suggest improvements to the methods used to investigate a question or solve a problem (VCSIS087).
Geography: Geographical concepts and skills: Identify and describe locations and describe and explain spatial distributions and patterns (VCGGC086). Describe and explain interconnections within places and between places, and the effects of these interconnections (VCGGC087).
Data and information: Collect and record relevant geographical data and information from the field and secondary sources, using ethical protocols (VCGGC088). Represent the location of places and other types of geographical data and information in different forms including diagrams, field sketches and large-scale and small-scale maps that conform to cartographic conventions of border, scale, legend, title, north point and source; using digital and spatial technologies as appropriate (VCGGC089). Interpret maps and other geographical data and information using digital and spatial technologies as appropriate, to develop identifications, descriptions, explanations and conclusions that use geographical terminology (VCGGC090).
Geographical knowledge: Factors that shape places and influence interconnections: Influence of people, including the influence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, on the environmental characteristics of Australian places (VCGGK094). Environmental and human influences on the location and human influences on the location and characteristics of places and the management of spaces within them (VCGGK096). Factors that influence people’s awareness and opinion of places (VCGGK097).
Design and technologies: Creating designed solutions: Evaluating: Negotiate criteria for success that include consideration of environmental and social sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions (VCDSCD041).
Economics and business: Consumer and financial literacy: Consider the effect that the consumer and financial decisions of individuals may have on themselves, their family, the broader community and the natural, economic and business environment (VCEBC005).
Critical and creative thinking: Mega cognition: Investigate how ideas and problems can be disaggregated into smaller elements or ideas, how criteria can be used to identify gaps in existing knowledge, and assess and test ideas and proposals (VCCCTM031).

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