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The Island: Building Literacy Skills Through Imagination
Turn the ultimate survival scenario into a powerful learning experience. This series of curriculum-aligned units and lesson plans immerses students in castaway themes to build their literacy, collaborative, and persuasive skills.
Literacy meets survival
Navigate the Island of Knowledge
These interdisciplinary units empower students to take an active role in their education. Rather than just reading about survival, students will master real-world climatic zones and design creative shelters. With a focus on resourcefulness, persuasive communication, and suspending disbelief, each lesson equips them with the skills to survive, thrive, and craft their own educational narrative.
Two units of work designed to engage your students ☀️
The Island: Adventures and Survival Skills6
Aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9
The Island: Adventures and Survival Skills
Engage students in a thrilling survival adventure, developing critical thinking and historical understanding.
The Island: Making Island Life More Comfortable lesson plan
Explore island sustainability! Students research resources, needs, and wants to make island life comfortable.
The Island: Finding Shelter Lesson Plan
Explore island sustainability! Students research resources, ecosystems, and human impact to find shelter.
The Island: Mapping the Island Lesson Plan
Map an island! Year 5 Geography lesson on cartographic conventions, spatial technologies, and data representation.
The Island: The Crash Lesson Plan
Explore resources, needs, and wants with this Year 5 HASS lesson. Engage students in economic decision-making.
The Island: Climatic Zones of the World Lesson Plan
Explore global climatic zones & environmental management. Ready-to-teach lesson for Year 5 HASS.
The Island: Survival and Storytelling4
Aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9
The Island: Survival and Storytelling
Engage students with a captivating narrative to develop storytelling, reading comprehension, and text analysis skills.
The Island: Making News Lesson Plan
Year 6 English lesson: Plan, create, and deliver multimodal presentations on sustainability and ecosystems.
The Island: Research Extension Task Lesson Plan
Year 6 English lesson: Research, plan, and deliver presentations on island sustainability and ecosystems.
The Island: Text Study Lesson Plan
Explore 'The Island' with this Year 6 English lesson plan. Develop literacy skills and analyze literary texts.
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