Year Five/ Six

Communicating with the Year Five/Six Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2020, and welcome your input:

Llewela Humphries (Class 56A) Llewela.Humphries@education.vic.gov.au

Gary Monopoli (Class 56B) Gary.Monopoli@education.vic.gov.au

Hayley Oliver (Class 56C) Hayley.Oliver@education.vic.gov.au

Jessica Cameron (Class 56C) Jessica.Cameron@education.vic.gov.au

An Overview of our Learning

Please see below an overview of our Inquiry Learning for Term Three.

Unit Title: Natural Disasters

Through Line: Our World & Beyond

Learning Area/s: Earth & Space Sciences/Geography

Capability: Ethical Capability

Natural Disasters – Unit Content:

Geography Content Descriptors – Geographical Knowledge

Factors that shape places and influential interconnections

Impacts of bushfires or floods on environments and communities, and how people can respond
Environmental and human influences on the location and characteristics of places and the management of spaces within them

Science Content Descriptors – Earth and Space Sciences

Earth and space sciences

Sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth’s surface

Ethical Capability Content Descriptors

Understanding of concepts

Discuss how ethical principles can be used as the basis for action, considering the influence of world views and philosophical thought on these principles
Examine how problems may contain more than one ethical issue

Decision making and actions

Discuss the role and significance of conscience and reasoning in ethical decision-making

Achievement Standards:

By the end of Level 6:

Geography - Geographical Knowledge

Identifies and compares responses to a geographical challenge, describing the expected effects on different groups.

Science – Earth and Space Sciences

Explains how natural events cause rapid change to Earth’s surface.
Explains how scientific knowledge is used in decision-making and develops from many people’s contributions.

Ethical Capability

Explains different ways to respond to ethical problems and identifies issues related to these.
Identifies different ethical issues associated with a particular problem.
Identifies the basis of a range of ethical principles.
Explains the role and significance of conscience and reasoning in ethical decision-making.

Unit Title: Natural Disasters

Through Line: Our World & Beyond

Natural Disasters - Themes: Students learn that sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect the Earth’s surface and important resources. Students explore and conduct inquiries regarding the impact of bushfires, floods and other natural disasters on environments, communities and natural resources. They examine how people can respond to minimise resource and community impact.

Questions:

What defines a natural disaster?

How do sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions affect Earth’s surface?

What are the impacts of bushfires, floods and other extreme weather conditions on environments and communities?

How can people respond?

How can science inform personal and community decisions?

Key Understandings:

How sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions affect Earth’s surface.

The impacts of bushfires, floods and other extreme weather conditions on environments and communities.

How people can respond.

Ethical issues related to environmental problems.

How people use science in their daily lives.