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Sustainable Futures: Addressing sustainability at the ASMS. Andrew Stone and Terry O’Reilly. The ASMS. A public school that caters for years 10 – 12. Purpose designed open learning environment 360 students and 35 teaching staff. Platforms of Innovation at the ASMS. INNOVATION IN - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Sustainable Futures: Addressing sustainability at the ASMS.
Andrew Stone and Terry O’Reilly
The ASMS
• A public school that caters for years 10 – 12.• Purpose designed open learning
environment • 360 students and 35 teaching staff.
Platforms of Innovation at the ASMS
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
LEARNING PROGRAMS
STUDENTLEARNING
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
INNOVATION IN TEACHING
AND LEARNING
Why interdisciplinary curriculum?
• Real world problems do not come in disciplinary shaped boxes. (OECD, PISA).– Climate Change, – Water security,
• New sciences of neuroscience, nanotechnology cross ‘traditional’ disciplines.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum
• “Rigorous disciplinary understanding requires that students come to view the disciplines as the knowledge and thinking tools that our societies construct and revise to make sense of the world, explain phenomena, solve problems, create products and ask novel questions in informed ways.”
(Boix-Mansilla and Jackson,2011)
ASMS Central Studies Sequence SEMESTER 1
REASONING AND RELATIONSHIPS
THE BODY IN QUESTION
A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD
SEMESTER 2
REASONING AND RELATIONSHIPS
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
SUSTAINABLE FUTURES
SPECIAL INQUIRY PROJECT
SEMESTER 3
ORDER AND CHAOS
VARIETY OF LIFE
TOWARDS NANOTECHNOLOGY
SEMESTER 4
ORDER AND CHAOS
BIOTECHNOLOGY
EARTH & COSMOS
SPECIAL INQUIRY PROJECT
AC Cross-curriculum priorities
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
• Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
• Sustainability
Sustainability OI
AC General Capabilities
SF Wordle
Essential Questions
• How are Earth systems interdependent and interrelated?
• How do human actions impact on global systems?
• How can we achieve a sustainable future?• How are scientific questions investigated?• How have human induced changes
challenged sustainability?
The Ethnosphere
The Ethnosphere
• "This century will not be remembered for its wars or for its technological innovations. It’s going to be remembered as the era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of cultural diversity on the planet.“
Wade Davis
The Ethnosphere
“All cultures are always changing. They are always dancing with new ideas and possibilities. We must stress the problem is not change. Nor is the problem technology per se. The Iroquois warriors did not stop being Iroquois when they gave up the bow and arrow for the rifle, anymore than the American farmer stopped being an American when he gave up the horse and buggy for the automobile. It is neither change nor technology that threatens the integrity of the ethnosphere, it is power of cultural domination.” Wade Davis
Evidence of Learning
• Titration of Brukunga Water sample• Sustainable Home Design• Water Issues Community Forum• Sustainability design Investigation• The Oral Tradition• Earth Summit
Sustainability OI
The oral traditionGary LarsonThe Far Side
AC General Capabilities
How can we achieve a
sustainable future?
Biosphere
Earth Summit
Hydrosphere
The oral tradition
Immersion
Poetry and picture books
Year 10 Australian Curriculum
Maths
Science
English
Geography
History
Unit 1/2 Australian Curriculum
Maths
Chemistry
English
Biology
Earth and Env Science
Geography
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