Unit+Overview

The following inquiry has been designed for a Year three class. In this inquiry students will explore and investigate groups and environments they belong to and the responsibilities they have in them. Students will learn that belonging to the ecological environment has responsibilities for them as a group and also individually. Students will investigate how as a group and as an individual they can contribute to the future sustainability of water conservation. Students will make connections with an overseas school, experts in the field and use Information Communication and Technology (ICT) tools as an integral component of the completion of the tasks and learning outcomes. The unit integrates cross-curricular Key Learning Areas of Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) and English. This unit has been designed for a ten week term, culminating with the real life context task, of designing and presenting water saving ideas for the school to environmental committee panel. // ##The learning manager will need to make arrangements and connections with the buddy class // [] // and expert guest speaker //[] // prior to starting this unit. // **__Stimulus Text:__** The digital text is an Indigenous dreamtime story called //How the Water got to the Plains// narrated by Olga Miller who is an Aboriginal historian. The text will be viewed via the link below from the Australian Museum. This text was chosen because of the many links it has to belonging in an environment and sharing in and caring for that environment. It also has an element of water conservation. The text will enable numerous dialogues in each stage of the inquiry. [] **__Key Question:__** How can I share in and care for the groups and environments I belong in?
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