Year 8 Big Ideas: What Price for Paradise?

The Year 8 students have begun Summer Term by investigating the question 'What Price for Paradise?' This topic involves the various ways that humans are negatively impacting the earth in pursuit of money. With this in mind, the students have completed a series of rotations focusing on areas of environmental damage - from mining in the Grand Canyon, to pollution on the Great Barrier Reef, to hunting big game animals in Africa.

The students have been using iTunesU to strengthen their capacity for independent learning and their ICT skills.

Next week, the Year 8's will be asked to evaluate what they have learned by producing a podcast countdown of the environmental issues they have studied. They will need to evaluate the extent of human damage in each case and make judgements about the short and long term impacts that these issues may have.

This term is a challenging one as the students are required to 'step up' their critical thinking and discover how Big Ideas works for them as a Year 8 student. We are sure that this will be a stimulating and engaging year for the Year 8's in Big Ideas.

Miss Emilie Reynolds

Year 8 Innovator