Primary - Stages 2 and 3

Unit Overview

This unit provides a project based learning approach to understanding stormwater as a local and broader issue facing made environments.

Students will engage in the Sustainability Action Process to understand stormwater issues, best practice management, design and implement a stormwater management or education plan for their school.

Outcomes

Geography K-10

• GE32 explains interactions and connections between people, places and environments

Science and Technology K-6

• ST31WSS plans and conducts scientific investigations to answer testable questions, and collects and summarises data to communicate conclusions

• ST32DPT plans and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity

• ST34LWS examines how the environment affects the growth, survival and adaptation of living things

Students:

What is stormwater?

What is best practice regarding stormwater management?

Can you investigate stormwater issues around your school, home or community?

Knowledge and Understanding - Made Environment - Built Environments

Skills - Working Technologically

Secondary – Stage 4

Unit Overview

Stormwater leaves the school in drains that flow untreated into your local waterways. If the water is polluted then this will impact adversely on the Cooks Rivers biodiversity, habitat and recreational use.

This unit focuses on a school stormwater investigation to identify any drainage and pollution problems in your school grounds. The data collected is used to brainstorm a project idea and initiate a stormwater action plan.

Outcomes

Geography K-10

• GE41 locates and describes the diverse features and characteristics of a range of places and environments

• GE42 describes processes and influences that form and transform places and environments

• GE43 explains how interactions and connections between people, places and environments result in change

• GE45 discusses management of places and environments for their sustainability

• GE47 acquires and processes geographical information by selecting and using geographical tools for inquiry

Science 7-10

• SC41VA appreciates the importance of science in their lives and the role of scientific inquiry in increasing understanding of the world around them

• SC42VA shows a willingness to engage in finding solutions to science-related personal, social and global issues, including shaping sustainable futures

• SC43VA demonstrates confidence in making reasoned, evidence-based decisions about the current and future use and influence of science and technology, including ethical considerations

• SC44WS identifies questions and problems that can be tested or researched and makes predictions based on scientific knowledge

• SC45WS collaboratively and individually produces a plan to investigate questions and problems

• SC46WS follows a sequence of instructions to safely undertake a range of investigation types, collaboratively and individually

• SC47WS processes and analyses data from a first-hand investigation and secondary sources to identify trends, patterns and relationships, and draw conclusions

• SC48WS selects and uses appropriate strategies, understanding and skills to produce creative and plausible solutions to identified problems

• SC49WS presents science ideas, findings and information to a given audience using appropriate scientific language, text types and representations

English K-10

• EN44B makes effective language choices to creatively shape meaning with accuracy, clarity and coherence

• EN45C thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information, ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts