Author: Dr Danielle Hradsky
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
Ecosystems
Futuring
Habitats
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.
Wildlife Corridors (Floor is Lava) helps students understand how animal habitats are affected by urbanisation, agriculture, and introduced species. You will engage with the sustainability concepts of systems, design and futures.
Timeframe
15 minutes (minimum)
Resources
- A large open space (indoors or outdoors)
- 2 or more ‘habitats’ (large blocks, areas taped out or identified with markers, etc.)
- Multiple ‘wildlife fragments’ (objects of varying sizes that students can safely stand on such as blocks, pieces of cloth, large sheets of paper, etc. spread out through the space)
- 3-4 wearable identifiers for ‘predators’