Uno's Garden

Uno's Garden

1. The Arts

   • Dance
     • Students use improvisation to create a dance to express how it would feel to live in Uno's Garden and experience the negative effects of human development on wildlife
   • Visual Arts
     • Students design and create their own made up creature using clay
     • Students create "Uno's Garden" costumes and a set out of recycled materials
     • Students design and create their own garden in a diorama
     • Students will bring in old magazines from home. They will find images of items that aren't environmentally friendly e.g. plastic water bottles, straws, cars and make a collage. Use old magazines to make a collage of items that are not good for the environment.
   • Drama
     • Students will conduct a role-play about one way the school community can be more sustainable. They will present this role-play to the class
     • In small groups students recreate the story of Uno's Garden. Students are to practice and rehearse their mini play to enhance their performance. This will be presented to the rest of the year 4s

2. Science

   • Investigate how animals in different habitats/eco-sstems have different features to help them survive
     • Students will make a report about an endangered animal. They will include the following things: The name of the animal. Where the animal is found. The diet of the animal. Why the animal has become endangered. What we can do to stop this animal becoming extinct.
     • Create a chart/poster of the distinct animal features found in different environments
     • Students use the app Book Creator to make a book about a particular eco-system and the animals that live there and how they have special adaptations to help them survive
   • Research the various ways the earths surface has changed over time due to human activity

3. HASS

   • The importance of environments to animals and people, and different views on how they can be protected (ACHASSK088)
   • Sustainability
     • In a small group, students are to brainstorm ways they they can be sustainable in: The school community, their families and the wider community
     • Students create a poster that encourgages the community to adopt sustainable ways of living
     • Students will need to research and give an oral presentation on one of these topics: Extinction, Overpopulation, Team work or Sustainability

4. Maths

   • Create collum graphs that represent the amount of animals and plants present in Uno's Garden
   • Time tables activities relating to the creatures and plants in Uno's Garden
   • Students will investigate the pattern of the decrease of plants in the first half of Uno's Garden. What is the pattern?
   • Students will use the select plants that they would want in their own garden using the Bunnings website. They need to calculate how much it would cost to build their garden.

5. English

   • Discuss how authors and illustrators make stories exciting, moving and absorbing and hold readers’ interest by using various techniques, for example character development and plot tension (ACELT1605)
   • Students will put themselves in Uno's shoes and pretend to have just found the forest that Uno discovered. They will write a letter to one of their classmates that describes what they can see in the forest and how they feel about finding the forest.
     • Using a green-screen and an iPad, the students imagine that they are in Uno's Garden. They will create an advertisement to promote tourists to come visit the garden and explain why it is unique.
   • Students are to make an acrostic poem about sustainability on one of the following words: Snortlepig Puddlebuts Tumbletops Gondolopes
   • Students will rewrite the ending of the story imagining that Uno never started his garden. They will have to use their imaginations to think about what would happen to the plants, the animals, the buildings and Uno and his friends and family.