Year 5 Lesson activities

The impact of bushfires or floods on environments and communities, and how people can respond (ACHGK030).
Lessons:

Curriculum links:

Activity:

Lesson
One:

Geography

The
impact of bushfires
or floods on
environments and
communities, and
how people can
respond
(ACHGK030)

Natural disasters brainstorm:

The class will be split into three groups and be given a
piece of butcher paper with a given natural disaster
(Floods, fires, hurricane/cyclones). Within the groups
students will brainstorm/list anything they know and
keywords in relation to natural disasters and then
groups will rotate. Each sheet will be put on the
classroom wall and throughout the ten weeks students
can add to them when they gain further content
knowledge.

Geography
The
impact of
bushfires or
floods on
environments
and
communities,
and how people
can respond
(ACHGK030)
English
Use

Video comprehension:
As a class the students will be watching the video Fire
Safety in Your Home. They will be watching Scenario
One: Dial for Help, Three: Smoke Alarms, Six:
Candles, Lighters and Matches and Nine: Key
Messages, after each scenario students will be given
comprehension questions (evaluating whether they
understood the main points of the video)
Key Questions:
Who do we call for help?
Where should smoke alarms be
located in your house?
Where candles should not be placed

Lesson
Two:

Skills
&
Curriculum
Priorities:

Cross- Resources

Evaluat

ing
Comm
unicating and
Reflecting

Analysi

Evaluat

ng
ing
Comm
unicating and
Reflecting

Butche
r paper
Colour
ed textas

Fire
Safety in Your
Home video

Compr
ehension handout

comprehension
strategies to
analyse
information,
integrating and
linking ideas
from a variety of
print and digital
sources
(ACELY1703)

around the home?

What are two key messages?

Lesson
Three:

Geography

The
impact of bushfires
or floods on
environments and
communities, and
how people can
respond
(ACHGK030)
Questioning and
Researching

Develop
and refine a range
of questions
required to plan an
inquiry

Real life events:

The lesson will begin with the class going through a
timeline of natural disaster events (what it is, where
its located and when it happened). Students will
further be given the chance to choose a natural
disaster and then research it individually on the iPads.
With the information they find they will need to
prepare a two-minute talk to present to the class.
Guided Research Questions:
What is your natural disaster?
When and where did it happen?
What caused the event?
Who did it effect?
How did the community respond?
Interesting facts

Lesson
Four:

Geography

The
impact of bushfires
or floods on

Response Organisations Match-Up Activity:

To start the lesson the teacher will be facilitating and
questioning the students on the roles of the four
emergency response organisations (Firefighters, Fire

Questi
oning
and
researching
Analysi
ng
Evaluat
ing
Comm
unicating and
reflecting

Analysi

ng
Comm
unicating and

Timelin
e of events
iPads
Guided
research
handout

Twenty
natural
disaster
scenarios

environments and
communities, and
how people can
respond
(ACHGK030)

Lesson
Five:

Geography

The
impact of bushfires
or floods on
environments and
communities, and
how people can
respond
(ACHGK030)

Service, State Emergency Services (SES) and Marine

Rescue Service).Using this information, students will
be put into four groups each representing an
organisation. Around the classroom there will be
twenty scenarios where one or more response
organisations will be needed. The students need to
identify if their organisation is required in that
particular scenario.

Reflecting
Evaluat
ing

Picture
s
of
each
organisations
uniform
and
name

Excursion:
Class will be visiting the DFES Education and
Heritage Centre where they will participate in the
following activities.
The class will be split up into two groups.

Questi
oning
and
Researching
Comm
unicating and
Reflecting

Centre
provides
resources
Pencil
cases

One group will be taken into a

classroom and will be taught about "Fire Home
Safety" and will be given the opportunity to
roam around four interactive learning areas
(fire, earthquake, cyclone, flood)
The other group will have the
opportunity to try on some of the fire fighters
uniforms and play on the truck.
Reflection handout: Students will complete a reflection
handout based on the excursion (Resource 1).
See proposal to principal for more details*

Lesson
Six:

Geography

The
impact of bushfires

Escape plan - Home fire safety:

The lesson will begin with students watching a video
on escape plans from the DVD Fire Safety in Your

Analys

ing

Comm

Fire
Safety in Your
Home video

or floods on
environments and
communities, and
how people can
respond
(ACHGK030)
Lesson
Seven:

Geography

The
impact of bushfires
or floods on
environments and
communities, and
how people can
respond
(ACHGK030)
Economics and
Business

The
difference
between needs
and wants, and
how they may
differ between
individuals
(ACHEK001)

Home. Students will be given a birdseye view of a

floor plan of a house, they are required to label each
room and using the information from the excursion
and the video they will devise an appropriate plan to
escape a fire in this home. Students will have the
opportunity to present their escape plan to the class.
Needs and wants activity:
Within this lesson the class will be given three
different scenarios based on a type of natural
disasters (Floods, fires, hurricane/cyclones). Each
student needs to individually respond to all three with
a list of things they would bring/save if they had the
chance to do so. Once all students have completed
this they will need to cut their list down to three needs
they would bring with them if they had a short amount
of time to escape the disaster and explain their
reasonings. The lesson would conclude with the class
sitting in a circle to discuss their responses and
reasonings.

unicating and
Reflecting

Analysi

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Scenar

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ing

Home
floor plan

Evaluat

Paper
and pens

Lesson
Eight:

Geography

The
impact of bushfires
or floods on
environments and
communities, and
how people can
respond
(ACHGK030)
Visual Arts

Develop
ment of artistic
skills through
experimentation
with: shape
(familiar shapes;
simple 2D
shapes), colour
(primary colours,
secondary
colours), line
(curved, straight,
wavy, zigzag),
texture (familiar
objects) to create
artworks
(ACAVAM107)

Design Your Own Home:

To begin this lesson the teacher will remind students
of the model of the safe and hazardous homes
against natural disasters from the excursion. There
will be a class discussion on the elements of the
house and around the house, what materials were
used to create it and what sustainable materials the
students will need to make their safe home. From this
students will design their own safe home however
they choose. This activity encourages creativity and
sustainability for the home and students will be given
the opportunity to decorate it the way they like. Each
student's home will be displayed within the
classroom.

Sustain
ability
Questi
oning
and
Researching
Analysi
ng
Evaluat
ing

Blank
paper/coloure
d paper
Drawin
g utensils
Magazi
nes/Newspap
er for collages

Lesson
Nine:

Geography

The
impact of bushfires
or floods on
environments and

Thank Goodness Youre Here Role Play:

Using the rules of the TV show Thank God Youre
Here, three students will leave the classroom whilst
the rest of the class will be given a natural disaster
scene that they have to act out. The students that

Comm
unicating and
Reflecting
Evaluat
ing

Props
and materials
for students to
use
Scenar

Lesson
Ten:

communities, and
how people can
respond
(ACHGK030)
Drama

Improvis
ation skills
(creating climax
and dnouement)
to enhance drama
(ACADRM036)

were sent out of the class will enter the room and
assess the situation and respond accordingly and will
need to act as one of the four emergency response
organisations (Firefighters, Fire Service, State
Emergency Services (SES) and Marine Rescue
Service). There will be props and materials that
students are allowed to use to help assist them in the
scene. After the three students have responded they
need to explain to the class what they thought the
situation was and who they were when responding,
the class will then let them know if they are right or
wrong. This will be repeated and three different
students will go outside.

Geography

The
impact of bushfires
or floods on
environments and
communities, and
how people can
respond
(ACHGK030)

General Overview Kahoot Quiz:

The students will be required to log onto an iPad and
participate in an online whole class Kahoot quiz,
which concentrates on all the information learnt
throughout the term. To conclude this lesson there will
be a class discussion on interesting content that
students found.

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class will be
acting out

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