Show Page 2The students of class X of a school undertake to work for the campaign ‘Say no to plastic’ in a city. They took the map of the city and form coordinates plane on it to divide their areas. Group A took the region covered between the coordinates (1, 1), (-3, 2), (-2, -2) and (1, -3) taken in order. Find the area of the region covered by group A.
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Teacher content information: A 2018 study by The University of Melbourne on the thoughts and concerns of young people from Generations X and Y found the number one concern across both groups was lack of action around climate change. In particular, “Generation X worries what climate change will mean for their own children, while Generation Y is concerned about the impact on future generations” (The Educator). The report indicates that young people have a serious mistrust in the Government’s ability or willingness to tackle climate change. Tackling climate change requires large-scale, systemic changes across all aspects of society. Simply aiming to reduce our CO2 emissions is not enough: we need to rapidly decarbonise our planet. While this might sound challenging, the good news is we already have the knowledge and tools to do it. 2040 is an innovative feature documentary that looks to the future, while focusing on what is happening now. Award-winning director Damon Gameau (director of That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream. The film will demonstrate to your students that we already have the solutions to climate change; we just need to take action to bring them rapidly into the mainstream. The 2040 documentary and curriculum package will support your students in turning this knowledge into positive action for a better future. Find out how to see the film here. 2040 will only be available in cinemas for the first part of 2019 and you can make a group booking for your class at your local cinema during the film’s theatrical release which starts on May 23. These lessons have been designed with a media library to support teachers. The film will be available on video-on-demand and DVD later in 2019. The film is the entry point to a global impact campaign that seeks to mobilise audiences to learn about, contribute to, advocate for and invest in regenerative solutions that improve the wellbeing of the planet, all people and all living systems. To join the Regeneration and share your vision for 2040, see the website. Watch the 2040 trailer: Password: 2040_EDU Cool Australia, GoodThing Productions and Regen Pictures would like to acknowledge the generous contributions of Good Pitch Australia, Shark Island Institute, Documentary Australia Foundation, The Caledonia Foundation and our philanthropic partners in the development of these teaching resources. Teaching sequenceWork through this resource material in the following sequence: 15 minutes – Part A: Activating Prior Knowledge25 minutes – Part B: Actions for Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change20+ minutes – Part C: Solutions to Climate Change30+ minutes – Part D: Debate 5 minutes – Reflection Part A: Activating Prior KnowledgeStep 1. Begin this lesson by explaining to students that they will watch a clip about climate change from the 2040 documentary and participate in a guided discussion around this clip, using the suggested timings below. 2040 – Global Challenges Password: 2040_EDU Suggested timings:
Once complete, invite students to share any other thoughts or concerns they have about this clip and take a moment to clarify any points of confusion. Further information about climate change can be found here: Bill Nye Climate 101, Climate Council, Department of Environment and Energy and Climate Change Factsheet. Part B: Actions for Meeting the Challenge of Climate ChangeStep 1. Explain to students that there are many actions that we can take to help meet the challenges of climate change. Invite students to spend one or two minutes suggesting any personal actions that we can take and record these on the board. Leave these up for a later activity. Suggested actions could include:
Once complete, explain to students that most of the actions that we can take fall into one of two categories:
In the next part of this lesson, students will explore these in more detail. Step 2. Distribute a copy of the Student Worksheet to each student and invite them to navigate to the first activity, Actions for Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change. Using a THINK PAIR SHARE activity invite students to create definitions for the following two actions:
Once complete, invite students to share their thoughts with the class. Use the definitions above to clarify students’ understandings of these actions. Step 3. Now, explain to students that they will watch two clips from the 2040 documentary; the first clip will show how carbon reduction activities can help us address climate change. The second clip describes the benefits of carbon sequestration.
2040 – Transport Case Study Password: 2040_EDU 2040 – Seaweed as Food Through this process ensure that students understand the following: successfully meeting the challenges of climate changes relies on both of these actions. We need to reduce CO2 emissions as well as try to remove as much carbon as possible to slow the process and impacts of climate change. Step 4. Now return to the personal actions on the board. Take a minute or two to categorise these actions as being either carbon reduction or carbon sequestration. Part C: Solutions to Climate ChangeStep 1. Invite students to respond to the following provocative statements by giving a thumbs up if they agree or a thumbs down if they disagree. If students are unsure they could also give a side thumb; there are many factors to consider with these questions and the answers are rarely black and white.
If students are willing, invite them to share the reasons for their responses with the class. Step 2. Now, explain to students that the threat of climate change has meant that some people are thinking of highly creative ways of meeting the challenge of climate change. These loosely fall into two categories:
Explain to students that in this lesson they will focus on natural solutions as these are solutions that currently exist and that have been tested.
Step 3. Share the following clip with students: How nature can save us from climate breakdown Once complete, invite them to suggest what they thought was interesting or important about this clip, before explaining that they will now explore some of these natural solutions to climate change in more detail. The solutions they will be exploring include (articles and sources to share with students included):
Students will be reading about and analysing these solutions:
The following resources have been provided to support students in their research (also available on the Student Worksheet): Questions to guide article analysis and reflection (also available on the Student Worksheet):
Step 4. Now invite each group to conduct a SWOT analysis of at least one of the natural solutions to climate change that they explored. Students can use this template: SWOT Analysis Template. Once complete, each group should share their ideas with the class through a class discussion. Pose one of the following questions to students:
Step 5. You could then return to the following statements used at the start of this section:
Invite students to suggest if and how their thinking has changed in response to these statements. ReflectionInvite students to complete the CONNECT EXTEND CHALLENGE thinking routine on the Student Worksheet. Take It FurtherTo expand on student’s learning in this activity, consider following up with this lesson; 2040 Vision For Your Community. Teacher ReflectionWhat’s Your 2040?Record your students’ work in their communities with the hashtag #whatsyour2040 and share their visions in the ‘2040: The Regeneration’ Facebook Group. The 2040 crew would love to see your class’ work. |