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Episode 5. Betty the Baby Blue Bottle. (Global Warming)

 

Synopsis

The main message here is that ‘it’s not easy being blue’. Here we talk about global warming and the oceans warming. The Earth is brown and green, but The Ocean is blue and so is the Sky. Betty is a female and blue, and find discrimination from her colour, but finds solace in the extra characters in the environment Andy, Ollie and Ellie. Betty was thrown from a party boat and ended up on the beach, but if the currents were wrong, she could have ended up on the great Barrier Reef or even the Great Pacific Garbage Patch!

 

 

Sustainability Framework guide: Repertoires of Practice, World Viewing (DEWHA, 2010)

  • Tuning in to and sharing own and others’ perceptions of and feelings toward living things and natural environments through:

  • Practising moments of solitude in, and becoming familiar with, a variety of natural and built environments

  • Appropriately interacting with and caring for domesticated and native/wild animals.

  • Cultivating or otherwise caring for native and non-native plants

  • Describing, representing and talking about these experiences.

  • Contemplating and recounting the stories and interpretations of other people about living things and environments.

 

The Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences helps students develop the ability to question, think critically, solve problems, communicate effectively, make decisions and adapt to change. Students respond to the challenges of sustainability requiring an understanding of the key historical, geographical, political, economic and societal factors involved, and how these different factors interrelate. The learning area provides content that supports the development of students’ world views, particularly in relation to judgements about past social and economic systems, and access to and use of Earth’s resources. It gives students opportunities to integrate their study of biophysical processes with investigations of the attitudinal, demographic, social, economic and political influences on human use and management of the environment. The curriculum prepares students to be informed consumers, to act in enterprising and innovative ways and to perceive business opportunities in changing local, regional and global economic environments. Students explore contemporary issues of sustainability and develop action plans and possible solutions to local, national and global issues which have social, economic and environmental perspectives. (ACARA, 2022)

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