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Climate change – creating critical thinkers … not sceptics!

Teacher guide Climate change – creating critical thinkers … not sceptics!

TLF ID M019918

Climate change was once just part of the science domain, but today it is a political juggernaut! This unit explores the science of climate change as a scientific concept and a political issue. The unit includes PDF resources and video quiz challenges for teachers and student and the library section provides extra resources and links to support student learning. Carbon is one of three WithOnePlanet modules that addresses environmental viability, cultural awareness, active citizenship and linking school communities in Australia and Timor Leste through technology.

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Educational value
  • The unit embeds all three strands of the Australian Curriculum: Science; all seven general capabilities; and two cross-curriculum priorities including sustainability and Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, as key components of the WithOnePlanet's carbon curriculum. It supports the skills, behaviours and attributes that students need to succeed in life and work in the 21st century.
  • By the end of this unit, teachers will be able to make evidence-based judgments on whether the students are achieving below, at or above the Australian Curriculum: Science Years 9 and 10 achievement standards.
  • The WithOnePlanet INQuIRY teaching and learning model provides problem-and challenge-based activities, designed to build sequential and experiential learning, practical skills and actions, critical thinking, knowledge and awareness about the impacts of climate change on plants, people and place. The resources seek to engage students in the big idea of carbon and its effects on their immediate environment and that of their neighbours in the Asia Pacific region.
Year level

9; 10

Topics Abstract art Safety Motels Chemical reactions Sound Atmosphere Ethics Carbon cycle Biogeochemical cycles Ecosystems Properties of matter Data collection Chemical equations Photosynthesis Climate change Energy conversion Experiments Electromagnetic radiation Oceans Environmental impact Electricity Heat Hypotheses Predictions (Science) Conservation of matter Cellular respiration
Learning area
  • Science

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Contributors
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  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
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  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: xpand Foundation
  • Organization: xpand Foundation
  • Address: VIC
  • URL: www.xpand.net.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: xpand Foundation
  • Organization: xpand Foundation
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: VIC
  • URL: www.xpand.net.au
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  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Online
  • Text
Rights
  • © xpand Foundation. This material may be used in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence, available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.