This document outlines the lesson plan for a unit on sedimentation and its impacts on coastal ecosystems. The lesson includes student activities like reviewing a council website, watching a short film on sedimentation in Australia, and researching erosion and sedimentation processes and local case studies in small groups. Students will develop an online workstation like a wiki or website to present their findings and must include a set of group rules for safe and responsible online behavior. The lesson aims to teach students about human impacts on the environment like sedimentation and help them understand related environmental issues.

1. WEEK ONE LESSON ONE
PROBLEM ANALYSIS

2. "WHAT IS SEDIMENTATION AND HOW DOES
IT AFFECT COASTAL MARINE ECOSYSTEMS?"
Queensland curriculum (senior science) - Earth science (2000)
Core areas of study
• Forms of human impact on the environment
• Landscape rehabilitation
• Environmental monitoring

3. STUDENT ACTIVITIES
• Council project - view the council website and the online request
for community consultation to identify key areas for rehabilitation
• Five minute group discussions and brainstorming session
- Why is planting trees important?
- What are the environmental issues the council are trying to
manage?
• Short movie - Sedimentation in Australia and related
environmental issues.

4. MOVIE AND DIGITAL INFORMATION
Soil - there is plenty of it isn't there? Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv5VNV31xtg
Erosion (Google Images, 2015)

5. STUDENT ACTIVITIES CONT..
• In groups of 3-4 undertake online research to investigate:
- Erosion and sedimentation processes
- Impacts on local coastal marine ecosystems, and
- Case study from NSW Northern Rivers Catchment Management
Authority 2008 and Burnett Catchment Care Association website.
• Present a proposed central workstation – choose from a weebly, Wiki
space or approved website.
• Develop a set of rules for online safety legally and ethically behavior for
the group to be presented and assessed on the group page.

6. ICT RESOURCES
• Local council website
• Flick – use of digital images of erosion, sedimentation and
environmental processes
• Movie showing processes involved in clearing, erosion and
sedimentation of rivers
• Environmental learning games developing proposals
• Case study and digital research
• Student created weeblys or wiki page

7. ASSESSMENTS
• Develop a set of group rules that align with the class rules and
responsibilities for safely, legally and ethical behavior online, this
to be present at the start of their site.
• This will be review and used as part of the assessment standards.

8. DOL – DIMENSIONS OF LEARNING
• DOL 1 – Attitudes and perceptions (setting class room
climate)
• DOL 2 - Acquire and integrate knowledge (construct
meaning and organize this knowledge)

9. TEACHER NOTES
• Aid the students to identify key terms such as erosion and sedimentation.
• This list of resources will be constructed to consider that the learner learn better
through interactive ICT programs and that various groups defined within this
class will need visual and kinetic learning aids to develop their knowledge.
• The case study will be provided so the students have a clear understanding of
the style and terminology that scientist and councils use when they discuss
projects and proposals. This will aid their ongoing development of their
persuasive writing skills as outlined the profiling section of this assignment.

10. TEACHER NOTES CONT..
• Students will focus on understanding online safely legally and ethically
behaviour and will have to develop a set of rules for their group that align with
the class and school rules and responsibilities. This is to be present at the start
of their group site. This will be facilitated to ensure that all students have
developed an awareness of their roles and responsibilities within using ICTs.
• These student created roles and responsibilities will be present at the start of
their central group wiki page or school approved website and will be used for
assessment standards to show declarative understanding and procedural
knowledge.