Intended+Learning

Your learners will need to have the following skills in order to complete the quest: * Learners can successfully navigate the computer and internet. * Learners are capable at blogging. * Learners can research using keywords on the internet. * Learners are able to highlight important facts in a text. * Learners are aware of some basic needs of animals. * Learners can navigate their way around simple commands using Microsoft PowerPoint. * Learners are aware of some animals and the habitats they live in. * Learners know that some animals are extinct. * Learners know that zoos contain animals. **Essential Learnings:** __ICTs__  Creating with ICTs - Express and represent ideas, information and thinking. Communicating with ICTs - Collaborate and communicate ideas, understandings, information and responces. Ethics, issues and ICTs - Develop and apply codes of practice that promote safety, security, responsibility and respect. __Science__ Organiser: Science as a human endeavour. Knowledge and Understanding: Science can help to make natural, social and built environments sustainable and may influence personal human activities. Organiser: Life and Living. Knowledge and Understanding: Living things have relationships with other living things and their environment. Ways of Working: Collect and organise data, information and evidence.
 * Prior Knowledge from Students **

__SOSE__ Organiser: Place and Space. Knowledge and Understanding: Interactions between people and places effect the physical features of the land, biodiversity, water and atmosphere. Ways of Working: - Collect and organise information and evidence. - Communicate descriptions, decisions and conclusions, using text types selected to match audience and purpose. - Apply strategies to influence decisions or behaviours and to contribute to groups. __English__ Organiser: Speaking and Listening. Knowledge and Understanding: In presentations, speakers make meaning clear through the selection and sequencing of ideas and information and the use of visual aids as support. Organiser: Writing and Designing. Knowledge and Understanding: Words and phrases, symbols, images and audio affect meaning and interpretation. Ways of Working: Identify the relationship between audience, purpose and text type.

**__Skills and Knowledge:__**  · Differing factors can influence a species population. · The purpose of zoos and the role they play in preventing extinction.  · Different species have different needs in order to survive. **Skills:**  · Researching using web, paper and people. · Basic note taking. · Design of a slideshow presentation.  · Collaborative learning. **__Element of Sustainability__:**  · Ecological and economic sustainability emphasises the needs to protect environments to sustain a quality of life in the present, and for future generations to come. Throughout this inquiry, learners will be able to identify these environments and use their knowledge and understanding to assist in sustaining the protected species of the world.
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The above information was sourced from the following reference: Queensland Studies Authority. (2007). // Essential Learnings //. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Queensland Government.