Teacher Toolkit
2. Know & Understand
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Lesson 1.
Community and Social
Koala Home Ranges
Description:
How habitat loss and disruption of one koala affects a whole group of koalas, and why this may not be visible to us (unless we learn to look!)
Links to:
Science
Living things & environment / genetic diversity
HASS/HSIE
Geography & Mapping
Lesson 2.
Eco-BIO-Systems
Healthy Trees for Healthy Koalas
Description:
Why healthy trees mean healthy koalas. Hint: it’s what they eat, and it has a lot to do with soil and climate.
Links to:
Science
Living things & environment / genetic diversity
HASS/HSIE
Geography & Mapping
Lesson 3.
Forest Spirits
The Heart of the Bush
Description:
History and spirituality and their links to koalas. Ancient links to koala and totem. Ways in which people respond to the fascination koalas hold for them.
Links to:
English
Persuasive texts and oral debate
The Arts
Fine Arts, Media Arts, Drama: Interpret and create art
Lesson 4.
Our planet, our selves
The Koala Connection
Description:
Choosing and exploring one of the complex connections between koalas and the wider environment.
Links to:
Science
Biology, ecology, environmental science, planet science
English
Plan, draft and publish informative texts
Lesson 5.
Desirable Futures
Protection for Now;
Protection for Tomorrow
Description:
Sometimes things aren’t so simple… students investigate the courses of action realistically available to a series of specific people in a fictional regional town. How will they use policy and planning to protect koala habitat?
Links to:
HASS
Geography: Social and spatial geography
HASS
Civics and Citizenship: Local and state civic processes
English
Plan, draft and publish informative texts including oral presentations
Lesson 6.
Champions for change
Shout it to the Treetops
Description:
The final project! Students choose one thread, theme or message about koalas and conservation, then take the sources provided and create either a podcast or an article about koalas that informs or persuades.
Links to:
Science
Communicating science concepts and information
The Arts
Media Arts: Creating media productions
English
Plan, draft and publish informative texts
Careers
Explore careers in planning and conservation (Secondary)
Stage 4 Extension.
Koala Champions
Field Study with Kosciuszko Education Centre
Description:
This practical study has been developed with the support of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Kosciuszko Education Centre (KEC). Start in the classroom before taking a field trip to the KEC.
Links to:
HASS/HSIE
Geography & Mapping
Science
Living things & environment / genetic diversity
English
Planning for and creating texts
Maths
Classifying, data, graphical representation
