ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS
Futures Develop the flexibility to respond to change, recognise connections with the past and conceive solutions for preferred futures.
- Students develop an understanding of patterns and connections between the natural environment and human impacts within catchment systems.
- Students learn about catchment management issues from historical and present day perspectives, including world, national and local issues.
- Students participate in action-based projects to help build scenarios of preferred futures.
- Students recognise connections with indigenous Australians in the past, at the present and for the future.
Identity Develop a positive sense of self and group identity, accept individual and group responsibilities and respect individual and group differences.
- Students develop an understanding, of themselves within the catchment community, of the groups to which they belong, and of other members of their community who are actively striving to achieve sustainable environments.
- Students develop a positive sense of self, and group responsibility by participating in projects and activities for sustainability.
Interdependence Work in harmony with others, and for common purposes, within and across cultures.
- Students understand the interconnectedness of local, national and global issues through the study of ecosystems and the role of water in the environment.
- Students cooperate with each other and with outside organisations and community groups to achieve sustainable outcomes.
- Students understand what is needed for sustainable social and physical environments by studying past present and future management of water in the environment.
Thinking Be independent and critical thinkers, with the ability to appraise information, make decisions, be innovative and devise creative solutions.
- Students develop understandings of what sustainable social, cultural and physical environments are, through the study of water in the environment.
- Students use a wide range of thinking modes to address the complex issues arising from the study of water in the environment.
- Students develop enterprising and creative solutions for contemporary water and biodiversity management issues by participating in programs for the environment.
Communication Communicate powerfully.
- Students develop the ability to make effective use of language, mathematical information and the tools of information and communications technology by participating in, and communicating about, the diverse issues covered in the study of water in catchments.
