Learning objects Kitchen gardens – sustainability action process (Years 3–6)

TLF ID M020972

This resource guides students through an extended school-based or local investigation focussed on kitchen gardens using the five-step sustainability action process. The resource supports the investigation of a real-world issue or problem. Students develop and implement a chosen sustainability action and then evaluate and reflect on their success and their learning.





Educational details

Educational value
  • This resource uses the five-step sustainability action process to engage students in an authentic hands on investigation within their school context. The investigation process addresses the Australian cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability.
Year level

3; 4; 5; 6

Topics Graphic arts Land custodianship Technologies Safety Balancing (Motor coordination) Active citizenship Creating texts Engineering Growth (Animals) Decision making Beliefs Food products Agriculture Plant cultivation Farming systems Gardening Primary industry Tools Storms Environmental management Social relations Environmental influences Environmental sustainability Sustainable development Recreation Right angles Habitats Food chains Animal reproduction Artefacts Word meanings Living things Technical drawing Dance Design Maps (Geographic location) Scientists Attitudes Friendship Decomposition (Living things) Ecosystems Food technology Plant reproduction Data analysis Human movement Properties of matter Data representation Breeding cycles Materials Forest fires Risk management Planning Movement sequences Nutrition Data collection Human settlements Countries Graphs (Data representation) Computer graphics Imagination Reasoning Problem solving Community development Communication skills Report writing Experiments Consumers (Food chains) Food preparation Sharing (Cooperation) Conversations Discussions (Texts) Fibres (Materials) Evidence Judgement Design briefs Instrumentation (Technology) Procedures Play (Recreation) Droughts Environmental stewardship Work health and safety Empathy Human impact Self-evaluation Evaluation Independent variables Scientific control Facial expressions Text types Floods Vegetables Mechanical energy Market gardens Plant growth Respect Predictions (Science) Information retrieval Information literacy Instructions Vocabularies Social competence SI units Non-locomotor movement Oral presentations Patterns Similarity (Classification) Scaffolding (Teaching methods) Chronological order Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Eye contact Historical sources Explanations (Scientific inquiry) Research questions Food miles Sense of place Wellbeing Action projects Locomotor skills Modelling Outdoor recreation Fundamental movement skills Health promotion Opportunity costs Traditional knowledge
Learning area
  • Geography
  • Health and physical education
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Design and technologies
  • Technologies
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • The Arts
  • Dance
  • Visual Arts

Other details

Contributors
  • Author
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: author
  • Contributor
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: author
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: Data contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Publisher
  • Name: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Organization: State of NSW, Department of Education
  • Description: Publisher
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Generic
Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © State of New South Wales, Department of Education.