Western Australia

Society and Environment curriculum framework

Student outcomes and links to relevant activities

Pest Tales links directly to the following curriculum levels and is designed for primary students, specifically grades 5 and 6.

Middle childhood (Level 2 and Level 3)	Society and Environment
Outcomes	Content organiser	The focus for learning is on:	Students should be taught:	Lesson plan
Place and Space Care of places	People care for places and the wider environment	sustainability as care of the wider environment linking sustainability to the well-being of people in the future	ways that individuals, unpaid volunteers and paid works from groups and government agencies care for particular landscapes and the wider environment and enhance sustainability current decisions about the care of particular landscapes and the wider environment affect people’s future well-being sustainable use of particular landscapes and the wider environment involves people cooperating even if they have different views	The pest project Food for thought Unwelcome visitor Pests in the school yard Something fishy Magpie madness
Natural and Social Systems Natural systems	Elements and interrelationships in natural systems	the interrelationships and interdependence between the elements of natural systems	natural cycles are formed by the linking of elements (eg plants and animals are linked by food chains and food pyramids) and may vary between places the elements in a natural system affect each other (eg weather patterns affect kangaroo numbers) human activity impacts on the interrelationships in a natural system (eg the impact of farming on soil erosion) changing, adding or removing one element in a natural system impacts on the whole community (eg introducing an animal such as the rabbit in Australia affects the vegetation, soil and other animals)	Feral or friend? Pest power The pest project Food for thought Unwelcome visitor Pests in the school yard Something fishy Magpie madness Trap a toad

Middle childhood
(Level 2 and Level 3)

Society and Environment

Outcomes

Content organiser

The focus for learning is on:

Students should be taught:

Lesson plan

Place and Space

Care of places

People care for places and the wider environment

sustainability as care of the wider environment
linking sustainability to the well-being of people in the future

ways that individuals, unpaid volunteers and paid works from groups and government agencies care for particular landscapes and the wider environment and enhance sustainability
current decisions about the care of particular landscapes and the wider environment affect people’s future well-being
sustainable use of particular landscapes and the wider environment involves people cooperating even if they have different views

The pest project

Food for thought

Unwelcome visitor

Pests in the school yard

Something fishy

Magpie madness

Natural and Social Systems

Natural systems

Elements and interrelationships in natural systems

the interrelationships and interdependence between the elements of natural systems

natural cycles are formed by the linking of elements (eg plants and animals are linked by food chains and food pyramids) and may vary between places
the elements in a natural system affect each other (eg weather patterns affect kangaroo numbers)
human activity impacts on the interrelationships in a natural system (eg the impact of farming on soil erosion)
changing, adding or removing one element in a natural system impacts on the whole community (eg introducing an animal such as the rabbit in Australia affects the vegetation, soil and other animals)

Feral or friend?

Pest power