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Curriculum Planning
The spiral bound Curriculum Planning Guide:
- Raises the awareness of teachers to the many learning opportunities
provided by our diverse forest environments and management practices.
Its major focus learning areas
are in SOSE, Science and Technology, with supporting ideas and
activities in other learning areas.
- Describes the concepts and understandings that may be developed
through forest related studies, addresses the question of ‘Why
learn about forests?’ and outlines a wide range of
teaching approaches.
- Covers three distinct areas (Forest Systems, Forest management
and Forest Issues) for addressing Key
Ideas for forest studies that can be explored when developing
teaching units.
- Provides Content Overviews
giving teachers a framework for developing integrated learning
programs, whole-school planning models and classroom teaching
units.
- Includes extensive Starter Ideas
for activities in SOSE, Science and Technology and other learning
areas geared to Levels 1-6.
- Provides a variety of Sample Teaching
Units from both primary and secondary teachers demonstrating
some of the ways that the planning document can support teachers
in the planning, resourcing and delivery of units. Student work
samples highlight the learning outcomes.
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