Regenerate your community
Engage your students in critical thinking by making regenerative plans for their local community.
Overview
After watching Regenerating Australia, students will work through an investigation of creative and critical thinking tasks to gain an in-depth understanding of what regeneration and sustainability mean in the context of their local communities and areas.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- understand the various aspects of sustainability, regeneration, and the importance of an integrative approach
- become aware of issues that are relevant to their local context
- learn critical and creative design thinking techniques to explore complex ideas
- build on relationships with their peers through collaboration.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- articulate complex ideas through creative and critical thinking techniques and design thinking
- work collaboratively
- recall and apply various methods of regeneration
- understand and apply the Three Pillars of Sustainability
Credits and acknowledgements:
Curriculum material and mapping has been developed and written by Cool.org.
Regenerating Australia is a Regen Studios film developed and produced in association with WWF-Australia. Cool.org and Regen Studios would like to acknowledge the generous contributions of Shark Island Foundation, Documentary Australia Foundation, and our philanthropic partners in the development of these teaching resources.
Watching the film
Regenerating Australia is available on ClickView making it easy to bring Regeneration into the classroom.
If your school doesn't have a ClickView account, Australian schools can purchase an educational licence for AU $55 which provides unlimited access to the film for educational use and on campus screenings for the wider school community. Schools will receive a digital copy of the film and a downloadable copy of our free School Action Toolkit. Apply now by filling in this Host a Screening form.
Curriculum mapping
What you'll need
- Learning materials
- Access to the film (see section 'watching the film')
- A device capable of presenting a video to the class.
Lesson materials
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