STEM FORWARD PLANNING DOCUMENT

TERM / WEEKS: UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE YEAR LEVEL:

2 DEVELOPMENT GOAL: 14 Life Below Water 4
GENERAL CAPABILITIES
Literacy Numeracy ICT Capability Critical and Creative Ethical Understanding Personal and Social Ethical Understanding
Thinking Capability
CROSS CURRICULUM PRIORITIES
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
OI.4 World views are formed by experiences at personal,
local, national and global levels, and are linked to individual
and community actions for sustainability

SCSA LINKS
Design Design Digital Digital
Technologies Technologies Technologies Technologies
Knowledge & Process & Knowledge & Process &
Understandings Production Understandings Production
Skills Skills

Introduction
 Students will complete second section of
their TWLH chart
 Students will take a pen and science
journals to incursion ‘Human Impact:
Earth Under Threat’
Body
 ‘Human Impact: Earth Under Threat’
educational program run by Ocean life
Education
 Incursion runs for 60 minutes. During
this time students will learn how humans
harm the environment and discuss how
individuals can make an impact on
minimising pollution in their daily lives
Conclusion
 Students are to complete incursion
questions from science journals during
and after incursion
Resources
 Incursion website :
https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/programs/primary-
schools/
Science Journal
 TWLH chart “What I Want to learn
 Incursion questions
1. What are some ways humans impact the environment?
Write or draw pictures to represent your response
2. What are daily activities do you do that impact the
environment?
3. What were some ways the guest speaker suggested to
minimising our impact?
4. 3-2-1 Countdown - 3 things you did not know before
- 2 things that surprised you
- 1 thing you want to start doing
with
the information you learnt today

LEARNER DIVERSITY
 Incursion is a fun and interactive educational
program run by professionals to cater for all
learning types

OTHER SCSA LINKS eg Maths, Science

Science as a Human Endeavour : ACHE062

Biological Science : ACSSU073
Science Inquiry Skills : ACSIS071
OBJECTIVES
 Discuss relevant information from incursion in small
groups
 Complete incursion questions in science journal
applying relevant information learnt during incursion

ASSESSMENT
Anecdotal notes throughout incursion
Checklist against questions filled out in science journals