Creatively Explore: Human activity cause changes to Earth’s surface

   Earth and Space Sciences

Creative ideas to explore the Science Understanding : 

Human activity cause changes to Earth’s surface

• Build a theme park out of waste

• Design suburbs for people and wildlife

• Create an edible city

• Build a water efficient city

Year 4 Australian Curriculum Science

What do you notice?
What do you know? What don’t you know? What questions do you have?

What do you wonder?
What do you think? What features will you keep the same? What features would you need to change?

What do you think if?
What ideas would you like to try? What do you think might happen if you….?

How can you explore what your city, theme park or suburb might look like?
What materials might you use? What steps will you need to plan for to build your city, theme park, or suburb? How can you test out your ideas? Will you use computer software or pen and paper to draw out your plan? Would you build a model? What other things might you need to consider?

Feedback
How would you get feedback from other people before you test out your ideas? What kind of people would you need to ask? What might their job be? Why would you ask them?
From your investigations how would you use the information to make decisions on how to proceed next?
How might you improve? How can you build on old ideas? Are there things you did not consider