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Drones in Forestry – Years 5-6

Lesson Overview:

Welcome to Drones in Forestry – a fun, highly engaging, technology rich cross-curricular HASS (Geography/History) and Technologies unit that allows students to explore how Australia’s sustainable forests are sustainably managed using a variety of high-tech digital systems including drone and remote sensing technologies. It also allows students to code and fly their own drone flight path to provide a solution to a real-world industry scenario.

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Through the unit, students will:

• learn the different ways that digital systems assist Australian foresters,
• design and implement their own drone mission to solve a forestry problem, and
• design and create a game-like app to reinforce understanding of drone mapping and STEM concepts.

The Teaching and Learning resources consist of Australian Curriculum mapped lesson sequences with supporting resources and assessment rubrics. The unit has been designed in discrete modules to cater for equipment access, time constraints and curriculum requirements.

 The Years 5-6 Drones in Forestry resource consists of:

• Lesson sequence with hyperlinks to supporting resources
• Australian Curriculum mapping document
• Assessment rubrics mapped to the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards
• Student response booklets:
  • Early Forestry response booklet,
  • Digital Systems in Forestry response booklet, and
  • Sarah Maddison Case Study response booklet
• Student activity sheet – Guess the word sets A and B
• StoryMaps- interactive visual web-based guides with engaging embedded videos, including ForestVR 360o videos, and maps.
  • Digital Systems for Sustainable Forestry
  • Case Study of Sarah Maddison
• Accompanying supporting documents such as:
  • How to use the ForestLearning ForestVR app synchronisation tool,
  • Drone pre-flight safety checklist,
  • Sample solution for Drone mission with control structures, variables, and a timer.
• Classroom Poster – Drones in Forestry

These resources

• enable teachers to complete the curriculum-aligned activities in their classroom
• cater to varied student ability, learning styles, and resource availability.
• are provided free for teachers to access and download
• are novel and relate to real-world industry scenarios
• are nationally applicable
• have been developed in partnership with She Maps, ForestLearning and with support from peak forestry industry organisations.

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