Education for Sustainability Learning Opportunities
The Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority refers to Sustainability as an “ongoing capacity of Earth to maintain all life” (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2014). In conjunction with the Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum your child will be given opportunities to explore sustainable living through an inquiry-based approach (Reynolds, 2014). Within the sustainability unit, students will participate in authentic learning experiences through the exploration of waste management. This involves students applying their learning in the real world. Hands-on learning experiences have been proven to promote greater motivation and satisfaction as they enable students to put the theory into practice, provoking further discussions that perhaps would not have been explored in the classroom environment (Carr, 2015). Throughout term three your child will explore waste management by creating a worm farm that will help educa...