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3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10 Drama Earth's resources Ecosystems F-2 Futuring Geography Human Impact Science Species Introduction/Removal

Warm-Up: Overfishing

Help your students understand how wild animals and plants are affected by private and commercial fishing, hunting and harvesting with this easy warm-up based on Octopus.

Author: Dr Danielle Hradsky

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Danielle is a drama/arts educator and researcher, gardener, and bushwalker. She is passionate about the power of the arts to create change in education, particularly in the areas of (re)conciliation, de/colonisation, and sustainability. Danielle lives and works on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations.

Year Level

Primary F-6
Secondary 7-10

Learning Areas

Drama
Science
Geography

Sustainability areas

Earth’s resources
Ecosystems
Futuring
Human impact
Species introduction/removal

Warm-up description

These warm-ups take classic Drama games and give them a sustainability twist. Each warm-up will take a minimum of 15 minutes, but could be stretched into an entire lesson.

Overfishing (Octopus) helps students understand impacts of private and commercial fishing, hunting and/or harvesting of wild animals and plants. You will engage with the sustainability concepts of systems, design, and futures.

Timeframe

15 minutes (minimum)

Resources

  • A large open space (indoors or outdoors)
  • Optional: Fishing rods/nets (or other hunting/harvesting tools) – soft balls, long pieces of cloth, etc.