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__**Lesson 1 Brochure **__


 * 45 minute lesson timing **

Students are to spend 25 mins on researching the location, flora and fauna, importance and what is happening to the Daintree rainforest before they start their brochure. The students will be able to use the printer to print of any pictures they find. They will then collaborate in their groups to join all their infromation and print it off in a brouchure form. This will take another 20 minutes.

The students can also take the task home to complete if they run out of time.

The Brochure must include information on the location of the daintree, at least 2 examples of flora and 2 examples of fauna, there must be information on the importance of the rainforest and finally what is happening to the rainforest.Extra information will be bonus marks, the brochure must be appealing and colourful with good information for full marks. This lesson will cover the outcome EN3.5 in the HSIE syllabus. It specifically highlights the indicator ‘uses geographic terminology and tools to locate and investigate environments' __**Lesson 2 **__
 * Outcomes and Indicators **


 * 45 minute lesson Timing **

Students are to spend approximately 20 minutes researching their individual impact. Whist researching they should be also writing up their section of the speech. They will then find some images to print onto an A4 sheet of paper.They will then combine and research a positive impact on the rainforest and write a paragraph about it. This will take about 15 minutes. Whilst writing the speech they are to consider the perspective of the public speaker. They will also need to write out a short introduction and conclusion to the speech, which should take about 10 minutes. The introduction needs to describe the rainforest, its location and importance. This information can be taken from the brochure created the day before.


 * Outcomes and Indicators **

This lesson will cover the outcome EN3.5 in the HSIE syllabus. It specifically highlights the indicator ‘explains the effects of human changes on an environment, evaluating the positive and negative aspects of these changes’.

__**Lesson 3 **__**45 minute lesson timing **<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Students are expected to create a power point presentation on what they have learnt during the last 3 lessons and also how they can help save the Daintree rainforest at home, at school and alone. They will then present the slide shows in the next lesson.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">In their groups they will present the power point presentation, the students must include all things they have researched through out the previous weeks this will take up about 40 minutes of the lesson for the children to work together and talk about the topics they have learnt during the last 3 lessons and each student must do a short presentation on what they have learnt.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">This lesson will cover the outcome EN3.5 'Demonstrates an understanding of the interconnectedness between Australia and global environments, and how individuals and groups can act in an ecologically responsible manner' in the HSIE syllabus.This lesson allows the students to understand the connection between the information they have researched and how it relates to their school, home and personal lives.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Outcomes and Indicators **