Upper Primary Years 4-7 SOSE and Science

Unit 3: Wet Tropics Rainforest Survival

Unit 3 Flow Chart
Unit 3 Matrix

Key understandings
North Queensland’s wet tropical forests have been World Heritage listed in recognition of their outstanding global significance. Humans are having an increasing impact on this natural environment. Through changes to attitudes and how the rainforest is valued this impact can be managed and minimised.

Focus questions
• What threats impact on the Wet Tropics rainforests?
• How are these impacts being addressed?
• What can be done to reduce the threats?

Targeted Key Learning Areas
• Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE)
• Science

Targeted New Basics organisers and referents

Life pathways and Social Futures
• Collaborating with peers and others
• Multiliteracies and communications media
• Blending traditional and new communications media
• Mastering literacy and numeracy

Active Citizenship
• Operating within local and global communities
• Environments and Technologies
• Developing a scientific understanding of the world
• Building and sustaining environments
• Targeted Repertoires of Practice
• Collecting, analysing and organising information
• Communicating ideas and information
• Setting out information in a cohesive report
• Planning and organising activities
• Appreciating the imperative of environmental responsibility
• Understanding the impact of local and global forces
• Persuading orally and through writing
• Working with others in teams
• Using computer software appropriately (Word, Publisher)

Core learning outcomes
This unit focuses on the following core learning outcomes from the Years 1-10 Syllabuses

Science
Strand: Science and society
Key Concept: discussions about the ways that science is applied have short and long term implications for the environment, communities and individuals.
S&S 3.3 Students make predictions about the immediate impact of some applications of science on their own community and environment and consider possible pollution and public health effects.

Strand: Life and Living
Key concept: Environments are dynamic and have living and non-living components which interact.
L&L 3.3 Students describe some interactions (including feeding relationships), between living things and between living and non-living parts of the environment.
L&L 4.3 Students make generalisations about the types of interactions which take place between the living and non-living parts of the environment.

Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE)
Strand: Time, Continuity and Change
Key Concept: Changes and continuities
TCC 4.2 Students illustrate the influence of global trends on the beliefs and values of different groups.