sustainable futures: addressing sustainability at the asms. andrew stone and terry o’reilly

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

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

Sustainable Home Design

• Sustainability OI 3-9

The oral traditionGary LarsonThe Far Side

Earth Summit

• Sustainability Organising Ideas 4-8

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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