School Strike for Climate Change

On 24 March, 2022, our school had a “Sit-In” for “School Strike for Climate Change Australia.” Students gathered on The Terrace and shared many ideas for caring for the planet. Friday May 6 is another day for “School Strike for Climate Change Australia.”

Everyone can make a difference on any day, to support Planet Earth. Below are some ideas shared with our students for May 6.

• To find out more about “School Strike for Climate Change,” click the link in the table below.

• It is Meat Free May, so you might like to try a meal or two without meat: see links below.

• You might like to collect some containers to recycle via Containers for Change: see more information below.

• An election is coming. The Vote Compass link below helps voters choose politicians based on their policies, such as climate change. Maybe share this link with those you know who will be voting.

• Laudato si’ Week si coming up from May 22 to 29. AHS will be promoting some climate actions relating to this week. See link below.

• The AHS Eco Justice group is always working on Climate Actions and meets weekly….(details were provided to students).

School Strike for Climate Change	Home | School Strike 4 Climate Australia
Laudato si’ Week May 22 to 29	Launching of Laudato si’ Week 2022 – Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Containers for change	The trailer in the Dodge Lane car park drop-off zone is a collection point for household containers. If you choose to take your own containers to a depot and wish to donate to AHS charities, use the code: C10204625 Home | Containers for Change   Remember, no containers that have had wine or milk in them   It is fine to put in Popper style containers; get 10c each back. See what else you can return at How it works | Containers for Change
Meat Free May	Meat Free May Welcome   Plant-Based Recipes, a Comprehensive Archive | Forks Over Knives
Talk to the voters in your household about the coming election and climate change. The link on the right lets voters check the policies of politicians, including climate change	Vote Compass 2022 – Australia Votes – Australian Federal Election Policies & Political Parties – ABC News
Free online Climate Game	The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero? (ft.com)

Some happy news: most AHS buildings are being covered in solar panels (if permitted – some can’t have solar panels due to Heritage listing). Below is Claver Theatre being covered in solar panels taken on 22 April 2022 😊

Thank you for all your climate protection actions.

Sustainable food unit Year 7

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pmUiYZg7_MJ5fE-Eq2VjGHc9FLWu2iUV/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103793569808822869121&rtpof=true&sd=true

Term Long Unit – 22 lessons, each about 45 minutes long.

Assessment is creation of 2D and then 3D sustainable garden design. Main task is creation of video pitch uploaded to flipgrid with student narration. Some images below from one student video, created using screenshots and screencast in powerpoint, then saved as video and uploaded to flipgrid. Sun setting at the end was effective. Flipgrid facilitates class sharing of videos, peer review and student self reflection.

Student Sustainable Garden Pitch built to approx. scale in school location.

Sample 1 Anon:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q2-LThXTIjwp1rKINYR7MB0VXeNG2rU8/view?usp=sharing

Student Sample 2 Niamh:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13WI7KlCxWGo4oHr_5hwMOozubu6jUeLc/view?usp=sharing

Learning from Home Activities

Example from twitter @TCEA

https://code.org/ and https://code.org/student/middle-high

Teaching sustainability and food especially for Years 7 and 8: additional resources

Content	Access Point
Food garden	Food gardens | Sustainable Schools NSW
Food Garden 5, 6	Design project: Kitchen garden – ABOVE | The Australian Curriculum
QLD sustainable resources	Cool Australia (sustainableschools.qld.edu.au)
General resources	Teaching Resources | Getting Started with Sustainability in Schools
Energy, food etc lessons	Flipside Science | California Academy of Sciences (calacademy.org)
Climate change	Climate change | Sustainable Schools NSW
Sustainable House day	Sustainable House Day – Environmentally Progressive Homes in Australia
Sanctuary Magazine	Sanctuary magazine – Renew
2040	2040 Documentary | Join the Regeneration (whatsyour2040.com)
Buy Nothing New	Buy Nothing New Month
Cospaces	Building sustainable communities with CoSpaces Edu | by Tamara Koehler | AR & VR in the classroom
Minecraft Sustainability City	Minecraft Sustainability City | Minecraft Education Edition
Good site for research on differences of food produced by these methods	Industrial vs. Organic – Sustainable Table
TLF-IDS1982 Learning areas: Studies of Society and Environment; Technologies Year levels 6; 7; 8; 9  Updated18/11/2021 This unit provides an opportunity for students to explore the costs and benefits of environmentally-responsible food choices, and to understand the impact of these choices on the environment, and on their own health and wellbeing. Students will deploy social inquiry research and working technologically to draw on a range …	Eating green: building values TLF-IDS1982 from Scootle
Download school garden design.	Sustainable Garden – Alexandra Primary School
Spring 2014 School Kitchen Gardens: Cultivating a Child’ s Nutritional Habits, Environmental Knowledge, and Sustainability Practices Jeffrey Meltzer SIT Study Abroad: questions at end may be good fro survey design. More theoretical	School Kitchen Gardens: Cultivating a Child’s Nutritional Habits, Environmental Knowledge, and Sustainability Practices (sit.edu)
Building your school garden together: a unit	Microsoft Word – Building Your School Garden Togethe1.docx (primezone.edu.au)
Kitchen Gardens: resources	Kitchen gardens (nsw.gov.au)
Setting up and continuing school garden. American. CSYSG page has very large PowerPoint as why need food garden	Sustainability | School Garden Resources (uga.edu)
Videos from Bunnings on setting up garden	Gardening know-how | Life Education QLD
A whole school case study: Arthur Phillip High School Sustainable Garden	Building a garden | Getting Started with Sustainability in Schools
Food issues teaching resources from Saskatchewa. Download PDF	Current Food Issues | Sustainability Classroom Resources at Resources for Rethinking (resources4rethinking.ca)
Australian, Y 10 Unit. 5 Lessons. Good questions.	Sustainable Food Systems | Agriculture Lessons (primezone.edu.au)
Good resources on food sustainability.	Resources – Sustainability-based lesson plans for teachers (asu.edu)
Teaching Kids Sustainable Food Practices By Sher Warkentin in Helping Hands School resources	Teaching Kids Sustainable Food Practices (tomsofmaine.com)
Ozharvest and other resources	https://www.liveforless.com.au/fighting-food-waste-schools/
Audit school food literacy and activities	https://fusecontent.education.vic.gov.au/f4faadc2-d745-430b-a2ad-a968752c839e/hefl%20teacher%20resource%2054pp.pdf?attachment=1
Our Hungry Planet: Food for a Growing Population: good videos and activities	Our Hungry Planet: Food for a Growing Population | Flipside Science (calacademy.org)
Useful resources including videos and worksheets for schools	Sustainability Victoria | ResourceSmart Schools
Year 10 Sustainable Food Systems- some resources suitable for younger year levels such as how to make a healthy meal deal, and “what can be done” activity	Year-10-SOURCE-Sustainable-Food-Systems-2020.pdf (health.wa.gov.au)
Variety of good resources about what can be done, packaging, where to shop etc	All Things Ethical Eating – Sustainable Table

Creating Future Libraries Conference, Brisbane, 25/10/2019

Just a reminder that the annual Future Libraries Conference is on Friday, October 25th in Brisbane. Please see more information and book at https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=547237&

Drone Lesson Ideas

Year 6 Disaster Unit
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tsr_amdPOfbgsoOo9snyxPHhKisc7u3K/view?usp=sharing

Don’t Spoil the Endgame Year 8 Activity
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q6dsVkQgvlzboe5tsC8PRz6cRsSXIUY0/view?usp=sharing

Curriculum Links
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D-8j9BAiQBYNzqk3AQQvZFQAuc0iaaLb/view?usp=sharing

Great Drone and Mapping Resources for Teachers
https://www.worldofdroneseducation.com/
https://education.shemaps.com

Why Use Minecraft in the Curriculum?

There are many reasons, but the following document provides some reasons for why we use MinecraftEDU in our sustainable housing unit:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BpP-_dM0Z_DM3RwSAyLUgMu49xj9SRLM/view?usp=sharing

El Wire at Home Economics Teachers’ Conference

Lynette and I taught 40 Home Economics teachers how to use El Wire to make designs for food, wearables etc. Fun session – teachers very creative.

Samsung Gear 360 & Google Expeditions

360 Video with Samsung Gear 360
https://www.cnet.com/au/how-to/tips-and-tricks-for-samsungs-gear-360/
Connect the Samsung Gear 360 to the iPhone iOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88kL-35-zE and http://www.wiselyguide.com/samsung-gear-360-2017-introduces-support-for-the-4k-videos-vr/
Samsung’s new Gear 360 camera shoots in 4K and works with iPhones https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15093686/new-samsung-gear-360-camera-announced-price-release-date-2017
New Samsung Gear Review http://www.iretron.com/blog/posts/review-samsung-gear-360-2017-camera/
Tim Gentle’s https://www.farmvr.com.au/
Google Expeditions kits https://www.tfesolutions.com.au/google-expeditions-kits
Google Expeditions in class
https://edgylabs.com/2017/06/03/google-expeditions-daydream-classroom/
https://www.munfarid.org/google-expeditions-favorite-vr-education-application-classroom-today/
6 Apps for Virtual Reality Field Trips Including Google Expeditions http://www.avatargeneration.com/2017/03/virtual-reality-field-trips-google-expeditions/

360 videos with phone & Google Street View

Instructions with pics https://www.readinbrief.com/take-360-photos-on-iphone-and-android-mobile/

1. Open the Google Street View app .
2. Tap Create +.
3. In the bottom right, tap Camera .
4. Take a series of photos, with the circle matching the yellow dot each time. Elbows in. Look up and down to find dot.
5. At the bottom, tap Done when the tick at the bottom goes green. Make sure to look up and down to get enough images.
6. Your 360 photo is stitched together and saved in the “Private” tab on your phone. The photo is also saved on your phone (unless you turned this setting off).

• Save to Album to your phone or RoundMe app or kuula.co or google.com/maps
• Can make public or private
• Can blur faces within app but only in the Private tab

Publish 360 https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7013640?co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS&hl=en

• More instructions https://filmora.wondershare.com/facebook/how-to-post-360-photo-to-facebook.html
• Bit older instructions https://www.slideshare.net/proyectoste/how-to-create-360-images-with-google-street-view-app
Reflector app is good for teaching: shows what is on phone or PC – not free