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__**Term 2: Week 1**__ "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
 * Introduction to project and sustainability
 * Shared reading of the bdr Suess book 'The Lorax'
 * Students draw 2 columns and idenitfy what was in the book community before and after The Oncler starting cutting down trees.
 * Students created a KWL chart(Know,What need, What going to do) to plan how they were going to idenitfy local community issues.
 * Students picked a motto from the book.

**__Term 2: Week 2__** Student groups each selected a task from the need to need column of the KWL chart. The 6 groups worked on
 * Letter to Bunnings asking for a representative to come talk to the class about invasive weeds and what it impact it has on the local environment.
 * Letter to RSPCA asking for a representative to come talk to the class about invasive animals and what it impact it has on the local environment.
 * Letter to Liverpool council asking for a representative to come talk to the class about coiuncil responsibilities, local issue and what projects the council is already working on.
 * Local newspapers: Student read and cut out articles or letters to the editor identifying local issues.
 * Internet research: On local organisations that can work with the school that care for the local environment. Also research contact information for the class letters and useful internet sites.

Videos and discussion.
 * Term 1: Week 3 WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY?**

Students broke into groups and explored the Liverpool council website identifying council repsonsibiliies and programs, community environment groups, information on recycling, invasis species, funding grants, community education, waterways, regulations such as when you can water your garden. **Term 1: Week 5** **__ MAPPING-CATCHMENT AREA __** Looking at poster of Liverpool Council coded with environmental key students learnt about the area. Catchments was studied, explained and noted on map. Students looked at key and analysed what each colour meant, e.g. ironbark forest(a protected species of trees). Students mapped where they lived.
 * Term 1: Week 4 **LIVERPOOL COUNCIL

Watched Youtube United Nations video on Year of Biodiversity and the address by Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations who issues a challenge to every person in every country. Students split into groups and gathered information from the video clip on different topics, e.g. extinct and endangered animals, environmental effect, etc. Information shared and discussed with class. The groups reported on 1)What is biodiversity and why it is important. 2) Damage done 3) Causes of damage. 4)Benefits of biodiversity.
 * Term 1: Week 6 ** **__ Year of Biodiversity __**


 * Term 1: Week 7 ** **MERL DAY**

**Term 1: Week 8** **COMMUNITY ISSUES WALL**

__**Term 1: Week 9**__ ** COMMUNITY WALK ** 5Red students decided to go on a community nature walk in their local area and identify a issue that threaten the quality of the natural environment and sustainability issues.

Term 1: Week 10 **L OCAL WATERWAYS ** Water Quality Testing of local waterways(Water Bugs): Cabramatta Creek and local farms

**Term 1: Week 11** ** COMMUNITY SURVEY & LOCAL PROBLEMS ** Students conducted interviews of community members about sustainable issue. The interview was written by a small group of students in week 2 and 3. Students graphed results for future results. Students added newspaper articles to sustainable wall. Students identified 3 issued for further analysis: rubbish, waterways and invasive species.

**Term 2: Week 1** **__ RSPCA GUEST SPEAKER  __** Students brainstorm what they already know about animals: Invasive species, pets and native species. Students write questions to ask RSPCA guest speaker. Guest speakers – Eva, Stephanie and Kate Students write what they have learnt, what they think they can do to improve situation(feral cats) and what they think the community could do. LOCAL NEWSPAPER Students identified an article on Chipping Norton Lakes and the problem of rubbish and pollution. Hughes Labour member Brent Thomas is organising a petition to

**Term 2: Week 2** Students sent email to Wires, wilderness and local environment group Australia inviting guest speakers. Received email from politician Brent Thomas saying he was interested in working with the class.

Term 2: Week 3 SYDNEY WATER guest speaker

Term 2: Week 4 WIRES guest speaker