Term+2+Inquiry

**How best can we act as custodians of our environment?** Tuning In:
 * Uno's Garden
 * Mini Earth
 * Window
 * Garbage Island
 * TV Ad

= **Understandings: ** = **Students will understand that: **
 * **Our environment consists of delicate systems which rely on one another. **
 * **Changes in the environment impact our eco-systems. **
 * **Our local environment has a rich history of growth, adaptation, and evolution. **

VELS: __**Science knowledge and understanding**__ - group living things on the basis of observable characteristics - explore the concept of relationship; for example, food chains and [|__energy__] flow along food chains in terrestrial and aquatic environments. __**Science at work**__
 * link cause and effect
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hoefler Text'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">contemplate how [|__systems__] operate - large system consisting of smaller separate [|__systems__], working together, and life cycles as [|__systems__] for survival.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hoefler Text'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">practise framing and investigating questions that interest them and are drawn from locally based issues
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hoefler Text'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> They develop skills in identifying the forms of evidence or data that are needed for drawing conclusions and proposing solutions to the particular scientific questions they generate.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hoefler Text'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">They reflect on the variety of ways collected data can be represented; for example, graphs, tables or digital images, and on changes they may make to the design of their investigation.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hoefler Text'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__**Geographical knowledge and understanding**__ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hoefler Text'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">- explore how humans have affected the Australian environment. Examples could include: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities’ care of the land; clearance by farmers and subsequent problems of land degradation and salinity; and protection of the natural environment through the creation of nature parks, national parks and marine parks. Using an inquiry-based approach, students explore environmental issues and consider possible solutions to current and future challenges. Students learn about environmentally sensitive areas such as local remnant vegetation, rivers, alpine Victoria, and national parks and explore ways of protecting these unique environments in a sustainable way for future generations.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hoefler Text'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__**Geospatial skills**__ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hoefler Text'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Students participate in fieldwork using simple techniques.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__**Historical knowledge and understanding**__ <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">compare aspects of different cultures and countries, in both the past and present, and ask questions about their own society. They sequence events and describe their significance in bringing about particular developments.