A Storythread Experience for Grade Five
Children working together can solve environmental problems and make a difference
Chapter One
Enrol the students in a relevant real-world blanket role connected to their local environment and establish the key skills, knowledge and values needed to take on this role. Begin getting to know your local place through research, attentiveness, linking in with existing projects or issues and speaking with local experts. Record and reflect on the students’ discoveries & progress throughout Chapter One.
Introduce the PEEC storybook The Bush Kids of Pullen Pullen Creek in connection with the students’ role. This story is about a group of children who took action to save a threatened creek habitat more than one hundred years ago. Read and think deeply about the characters in the story, their actions and their values through literacy, philosophy and drama and then accept the invitation to attend the excursion at PEEC and continue the adventures of the Bush Kids.
Chapter Two
At PEEC, the students visit Pullen Pullen Creek and then work together to step back in time and into the story to help the Bush Kids solve another environmental problem.
Chapter Three
Back at school, the children recap the excursion day and then reflect on and continue the story. By also reflecting on their experiences so far, the students consider and articulate what they have learnt about themselves and their connection to place, and identify the skills that they have developed. What now?
Chapter Four
The children work together to develop and implement an achievable, student-led project that will link them with the community and make life better in their place.