ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)



Questions for discussion

Paradise Papers

1. As a class, discuss the Paradise Papers story. Record the main points of your discussion.

2. If a pair of Nike shoes cost $120, about how much goes to the shop that sold them?

3. About how much goes to Nike in the Netherlands?

4. Why does the money go overseas and not stay in Australia?

5. In Australia, companies have to pay about ________ cents in tax for every dollar of profit they earn.

6. In the Netherlands, companies may not have to pay any ___________.

7. How much did Nike pay to the Australian Tax Office for every pair of shoes they sold here?

8. What are the Paradise Papers?

9. What questions do you have about the Paradise Papers story?

10. Do you think companies should be allowed to send profits overseas to pay less tax?

Vote in the BTN Online Poll

Ozone Improvement

1. Briefly summarise the Ozone Improvement story.

2. What is ozone?

3. How high up in the atmosphere is the ozone layer?

4. What does ozone absorb?

5. Ozone acts as the planet’s __________________.

6. What damage can ultra violet radiation cause?

7. Name the substance that caused the hole in the ozone layer?

8. CFCs were banned in the 1980s. True or false?

9. What has happened to the hole in the ozone layer in the last ten years?

10. Name three things you learnt watching the BTN story.

Check out the Ozone Improvement resource on the Teachers page

History of Toilets

1. In pairs, discuss the main points raised in the History of Toilets story.

2. What are three other names for toilet?

3. Why are toilets important?

4. When did toilets first make an appearance?

5. Name a fact about the history of toilets.

6. When were toilets as we know them today invented?

a. 1700s

b. 1800s

c. 1900s

7. About how many people around the world don’t have access to a simple, hygienic toilet?

8. Why is it important for everyone to have access to a toilet?

9. Explain why Japan is a world leader in toilet technology.

10. What did you learn watching the BTN story?

Do the quiz on the BTN website

Indigenous Seasons

1. Briefly summarise the Indigenous Seasons story.

2. What are the students in the BTN story learning about?

3. Finish the following sentence: Instead of using dates to mark the change of a season, they follow the cycle of…

4. In the Kaurna seasonal calendar, what is the name of the hot season?

a. Warltati

b. Parnati

c. Wirltuti

5. Winter is known as Kudlila which means…

6. Around the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory, there are ________ seasonal changes.

7. In Western Australia, the Yawuru people have six different seasons. Name one of them.

8. What did the students learn in the Kaurna seasons workshop?

9. How are indigenous seasons similar or different to Australia’s European climate description?

10. What was surprising about the Indigenous Seasons story?

Check out the Indigenous Seasons resource on the Teachers page

Reviving Gaelic

1. What did the BTN Reviving Gaelic story explain?

2. What are the kids in the BTN story doing to keep their language alive?

3. What is the first official language of the Republic of Ireland?

4. Why did Irish Gaelic start to die out?

5. Why are lots of people are worried about the future of Irish Gaelic?

6. The kids live in one of the last places in Ireland were Irish is still spoken as a ___________ language.

7. Explain the program that the kids are involved in.

8. Describe the popularity of the music videos on YouTube.

9. What do the music videos encourage people to do?

10. Do you think it’s important to keep languages alive? Give reasons for your answer.

Write a message about the story and post it in the comments section on the story page.

Teacher Resource

Ozone Layer

[pic]

1. Briefly summarise the Ozone Improvement story.

2. What is ozone?

3. How high up in the atmosphere is the ozone layer?

4. What does ozone absorb?

5. Ozone acts as the planet’s __________________.

6. What damage can ultra violet radiation cause?

7. Name the substance that caused the hole in the ozone layer?

8. CFCs were banned in the 1980s. True or false?

9. What has happened to the hole in the ozone layer in the last ten years?

10. Name three things you learnt watching the BTN story.

[pic]

After watching the BTN Ozone Improvement story, respond to the following questions:

[pic]

Discuss the BTN Ozone Improvement story as a class. What questions were raised in the discussion (what are the gaps in their knowledge)? The following KWLH organiser provides students with a framework to explore their knowledge on this topic and consider what they would like to know and learn. Students will develop their own question/s for inquiry.

|What do I know? |What do I want to know? |What have I learnt? |How will I find out? |

| | | | |

| | | | |

[pic]

Students will investigate in more depth some questions they have about the ozone layer.

|Define: What do I want to know? |

|Key questions to research |

|Students can choose one or more of the following questions or come up with their own: |

|What is ozone and why is it important? |

|What are the consequences of ozone depletion? How do humans contribute to the problem? |

|Where is the hole in the ozone layer? What is the current status of the hole? |

|What is the Montreal Protocol and what has it achieved? |

|How is ozone measured? |

|How might the world look without the ozone layer to protect it? |

|Locate: Where do I find the information? |

|What resources will help answer my questions? (Internet, people, resource centre, organisations, print). Discuss with students what a |

|reliable source is. |

|Select: What information is important for the investigation? |

|Students may need support to sort through and select relevant information. |

|Organise: How do I make sense of the information? |

|Students can organise their research by creating main headings from their questions. Write each heading on a separate piece of paper. |

|Record the information found for each question. |

|Present: How do we let others know about this information? |

|Students decide on the best way to present the information. Possibilities could include: |

|A `Did You Know’ Fact sheet |

|Create an infographic using Canva |

|Prezi presentation |

|Oral presentation |

|Make a website using Wix |

|Create an interactive poster using Glogster |

|Evaluate: What have we learnt? |

|Students reflect on what they have learnt about the ozone layer and respond to the following. |

|What I learned... |

|What I found surprising... |

[pic]

The Ozone Layer animation explains what ozone is and how the ozone layer became depleted. Students can use the information in the animation to help them with their research.

Watch the BTN Ozone Layer story then respond to the following questions:

1. What did scientists predict would happen by 2065?

2. Describe the impact it would have on people’s lives.

3. What is ozone?

4. What does ozone absorb?

5. What are the consequences of ozone depletion?

6. Name the substance that was causing the hole in the ozone layer.

7. What happened as a result of the Montreal Protocol?

Create a Quiz

Use Kahoot! to test students’ knowledge about the ozone layer. Quizzes can be created to recap learning or test personal knowledge. There is also the option to connect with classrooms around the world and play kahoot in real time.

[pic]

BTN Ozone Layer



NASA – Basics on Ozone



EPA Victoria – Ozone Layer animation



Teacher Resource

Indigenous Seasons

[pic]

1. Briefly summarise the Indigenous Seasons story.

2. What are the students in the BTN story learning about?

3. Finish the following sentence: Instead of using dates to mark the change of a season, they follow the cycle of…

4. In the Kaurna seasonal calendar, what is the name of the hot season?

a. Warltati

b. Parnati

c. Wirltuti

5. Winter is known as Kudlila which means…

6. Around the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory, there are ________ seasonal changes.

7. In Western Australia, the Yawuru people have six different seasons. Name one of them.

8. What did the students learn in the Kaurna seasons workshop?

9. How are indigenous seasons similar or different to Australia’s European climate description?

10. What was surprising about the Indigenous Seasons story?

[pic]

Personal response

After watching the BTN Indigenous Seasons story, students will respond to the following questions:

[pic]

Students will then write a personal response to the Indigenous Seasons story and leave a comment on the BTN Indigenous Seasons story page.

Class discussion

Watch the BTN Indigenous Seasons story and discuss as a class. What questions were raised in the discussion (what are the gaps in their knowledge)? The following questions may help guide the discussion:

• What three things are indigenous seasonal calendars based on?

• How are indigenous seasons similar or different to Australia’s European climate description?

• Australia’s climate is diverse. In your own words explain what this means.

The following KWLH organiser provides students with a framework to explore their knowledge on this topic and consider what they would like to know and learn.

|What do I know? |What do I want to know? |What have I learnt? |How will I find out? |

| | | | |

[pic]

Compare and contrast

Working in pairs, students will investigate how indigenous seasons are similar or different to Australia’s European climate description. They can display their information using a Venn diagram with two circles. Record similarities in the overlapping areas.

[pic]

As a class, invite a member of a local Indigenous community to your class to talk about the seasons in your area.

• Before you invite a member of a local Indigenous community to your class students will explore the Indigenous Weather Knowledge website to learn more about their area.

• Consider holding the information session in your school garden to help connect with the plants and animals local to your area.

• Students will create a personalised seasonal cycle for their area, which includes information they have learnt throughout this activity.

[pic]

Indigenous weather knowledge

Students will visit the Indigenous Weather Knowledge website and select the Indigenous community closest to their school. Students will explore the indigenous seasonal knowledge relevant to their area using this template to record their findings.

[pic]

[pic]

Burau of Meteorology – Indigenous Weather Knowledge



CSIRO – About the Indigenous seasons calendars



ABC Splash – Indigenous seasons across northern Australia



Stephanie Alexander Garden Foundation – Indigenous Seasons



BTN: Episode 32 Transcript 14/11/17

Hi, Nathan here. Welcome to BTN!

Coming up today:

• We'll reveal some good news on the environment.

• Pay tribute to the humble dunny.

• And, they're the songs you recognise with words you don't. We meet the Irish group ripping up YouTube to help keep their language alive.

Paradise Papers

Reporter: Jack Evans

INTRO: All that and more soon but first today. Millions of leaked documents called 'the Paradise Papers’ were recently released by news outlets around the world. Among other things they shed light on some of the tactics that people and companies use to pay much less tax. Nike was one of the companies contained in the release. So, let's take a look at where your money actually goes if you buy a pair.

Picking a new shoe can be pretty tough. You need to find the perfect fit, style, colour, cushioning, flexibility, laces, logo, heel counter, heel crash pad, midsole, outsole, sock liner, toe spring, toe box, tongue. You get the point! But all those fancy features can sometimes add up.

SALES CONSULTANT: How are they?

CUSTOMER: I love them. Hold on, is that how much they cost?

Sales Consultant: Yep. Shall I put them in a bag or will you be wearing them out?

CUSTOMER: Better (put them in a) bag, I don't want to get them dirty.

But have you ever wondered where all that money actually goes? Ok, let’s say a pair of Nikes cost you $120. $20 goes straight to the store where you bought it, to cover their costs and a bit of profit. That leaves $100. That's the money Nike makes from selling you that pair of shoes. But where that $100 goes is pretty surprising. About $80 goes straight to a Nike Company in the Netherlands. Why? Well it means Nike doesn't have to pay as much tax as it would have to if it was based in Australia. You see here, companies have to pay roughly 30 cents in tax for every dollar of profit they earn. However, in the Netherlands if they play their cards right. They may not have to pay a cent of tax.

Back to our example shoe, that transfer to the Netherlands means that out of the $120 purchase price only $20 stays in Australia. However, $18 of it covers publicity and marketing. Which leaves only $2 as profit that the government can then tax. So last year for every pair of shoes that Nike sold here they only paid 89 cents in tax to the Australian tax office. Nike says what they're doing is completely legal. But other people say it's not fair that they don't have to pay the full tax rate that other local businesses have to.

The reason we know all of this is because of the release of something called the Paradise Papers. That's the name given to 13.4 million documents that were leaked to the public without permission. Thousands of journalists from around the world have been working together to sort through all those documents and investigate them further. And Nike is far from the only company contained in them. Some journalists have found examples of powerful people using overseas lawyers to move around their money to different countries or people who have connections to countries they shouldn't have. While others have exposed the tax secrets of big companies, and over the next few days it's expected that a lot more will be uncovered in the Paradise Papers.

Poll

And for our poll today. Do you think companies should be allowed to send profits overseas to pay less tax?

Let us know in our online poll.

Ozone Improvement

Reporter: Sean Bahr-Kelly

INTRO: Next up today. Some good news! NASA has revealed that the hole in the ozone layer is the smallest it's been in three decades. That's a pretty big deal, because in the 90s, things were looking really bad. Here's the story.

DR SCIENCE: Hello and welcome to science. I'm Dr Science and today we are going to be learning about science stuff. Any questions?

KID: What's the ozone layer?

DR SCIENCE: That’s a good question, that’s um I know what that is, that’s the uh, that’s, I know what that is, I’m a scientist.

It turns out Dr Science needs some help. Luckily, I know exactly who to go to.

DR SCIENCE: Hey, I'm Sean, Dr Science.

DARREN, METEOROLOGIST: Hi Dr Science! I'm Darren, I'm a meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology

DR SCIENCE: So, what is the ozone layer, scientifically?

DARREN, METEOROLOGIST: It's actually a layer of ozone gas high up in the atmosphere, so we're talking about 20 to 30 kilometres up and that layer of ozone actually absorbs a lot of the ultra violet radiation coming from the sun. And that's a really good thing because the ultra violet radiation actually causes things like sunburn and skin cancers.

Ozone is a special molecule made up of three oxygen atoms. Up in the atmosphere, those molecules are pretty much acting as the planet's sunscreen, absorbing up to 99 per cent of the sun's ultra violet light. So, if we lost our protection from it, we'd be in trouble!

DR SCIENCE: So, what is the ozone hole?

DARREN, METEOROLOGIST: Well you have to actually go back about 100 years when people created a gas to actually use in things like refrigerators and in spray cans and they created this gas called CFCs or chlorofluorocarbons and what they actually found out through the 1970s was that those CFCs or chlorofluorocarbons actually stay up in the atmosphere a long time, they go up into the stratosphere and the chlorine breaks off and actually destroys thousands and thousands of ozone molecules.

In 1985, a report was released that showed that the ozone layer had gotten thinner at each of the poles and it was getting worse. The culprit, you guessed it, CFCs!

NEWSREADER: Ozone depletion in the atmosphere is getting worse.

People were worried we soon wouldn't be protected from the sun's radiation. It was happening right above us and quicker than anyone could imagine.

So, the world acted. Eventually, CFCs were banned around the globe and companies found other ways to make deodorant that didn't hurt the ozone layer or make anyone any smellier.

Now, it looks like that effort is making a big difference. The hole in the ozone layer is the smallest it’s been since 1988.

DARREN, METEOROLOGIST: In the last ten years or so it's starting to get smaller and smaller and that means we're starting to see recovery in the levels of ozone in the stratosphere and we're expecting that ozone hole will disappear completely in the next 30 to 40 years. It's fantastic news that everyone around the world got together and agreed to take action to stop this affecting us.

Which shows us humans really can have a positive impact. And that's science.

DR SCIENCE: There you go that's the ozone layer. I'm Dr Science and this has been SCIENCE stuff!

This Week in News

Our politicians now have until the 1st of December to prove that they're not dual citizens!

In the past few months politicians from all sides have lost spots in parliament because they were citizens of another country as well as Australia.

That's against the rules set out in the constitution.

So now, the Prime Minister is giving all Aussie politicians until the end of the month to provide proof of their citizenship status to parliament to end the confusion once and for all.

It's got pretty messy, though with some members of the Coalition losing their seats the government's now at risk of losing its majority in the House of Reps.

There have been some intense scenes at the Manus Island Detention Centre in PNG. The centre was closed two weeks ago but hundreds of asylum seekers and refugees have been living there without food, water or medical supplies.

They were meant to be moved to another location but many refused to go saying they didn't feel safe about having to live somewhere else.

The PNG government says the men won't be allowed to stay.

A new app is helping identify frog species and numbers across Australia. It's called Frog ID.

It's asking people, just like you, to use the app to spot and record any frogs hiding in your neighbourhood.

It’s a huge effort to get everyone out there, kids, young and old and see where our frogs’ species are and how they are doing.

Experts say some of Australia's 240 species of frog are in trouble.

Info collected using the app will help scientists understand where frogs live and how their environments are changing.

You might even help discover a new species!

Some of the best young spellers in New South Wales have battled it out at the Premier Spelling Bee.

9-year-old Lena Zhu took out the junior title. The winning word - irrevocable. Nice one.

Lena Zhu Winner: I was very surprised when I won.

Lena says she reads heaps of books to help learn new words.

And a tiny photobomber has been found in a painting by Vincent van Gogh!

Experts discovered this small grasshopper stuck in the paint of van Gogh's Olive Trees from way back in 1889.

It's not as weird as it sounds though. Van Gogh liked to paint outside and bugs sometimes got caught up in the process!

EXPERT: I think it's not uncommon to find plant material, bugs, sand stuck in the paint of works that were created outside.

Kokoda VR

Have you tried Kokoda VR yet?

It's available now for free for major VR headsets, for mobiles or on YT360.

For all the details, extra features and teaching resources just head to .au/KokodaVR

History of Toilets

Reporter: Matthew Holbrook

INTRO: Now. November 19 is a day we all mark as World Toilet Day. The aim is to spread the message that toilets actually save lives by doing a messy but vital job. Here's more.

GIRL: Loo

BOY: Bog

BOY: Dunny

BOY: John

GIRL: Throne

GIRL: Lavatory

ALL: Thunderbox

These are just some of the delightful names used to describe the humble toilet.

REPORTER: But while it's always served a very important function, handling our functions, it's changed a lot over time, and so has our understanding of it.

Here's a mostly chronological explanation of the toilet. Toilets first made an appearance around 3000 BC. But by 315 AD, the ancient Romans had taken things to a disgusting new level.

Toilets were a social event, meeting friends, hanging out, and wiping themselves with a shared sponge on a stick. Let's go forward a little further, where things were gross in different ways.

Medieval castles had garderobes. Essentially tiny rooms to do your business in. Sometimes out over a moat! Hmm. In Europe, people also did their business in chamber pots. Some of them were rather pretty. And afterwards, they chucked their waste out the window, or into the street. Not as pretty.

MATT: By the 1800s, flushing toilets became a big thing. Thanks to some incredible toilet-obsessed inventors like Sir John Harington, Alexander Cumming, and Joseph Bramah.

By then, people had realised human waste isn't just smelly and not very fun to be around, it can make us really sick. And toilets contain and remove that waste, which helps stop those nasty diseases from spreading. While living conditions have improved for many, 2.4 billion people still don't have access to a simple, hygienic toilet.

And it's not just about access, many still don't know about hygiene, and that washing your hands properly can stop diseases from spreading. That's a big part of what World Toilet Day is hoping to change.

REPORTER: So, it means this little guy has still got some work to do, but it hasn't been sitting idle in the meantime. Well, it obviously has, it's a toilet, but you know what I mean.

In recent years, people have got pretty creative with design, and plopping our toilet friends into interesting surroundings. Japan is a bit of a world leader in toilet technology, around three quarters of Japanese homes have electronic toilet seats, that'll do everything from warm the seat, to play you soothing music.

But regardless of its fanciness, we all owe a big thanks to our underappreciated porcelain friends. But let's not see each other more than we have to. Our current relationship is fine.

Ask a Reporter

Have you got a question about World Toilet Day? Ask me live on Friday during Ask A Reporter!

Head to our website for all the details

Indigenous Seasons

Reporter: Jack Evans

INTRO: Next up. We all know the names of the seasons; summer, autumn, winter and spring. But did you know Australia's Indigenous cultures had completely different seasons each designed around local weather conditions? We visited one school this week as they learned all about them.

These guys are learning about the seasons. But not the ones you'd recognise.

Uncle Lewis: You've got to say it 3 times, Warltati.

KIDS: Warltati, Warltati, Warltati.

Uncle Lewis: Good, that's summer.

Uncle Lewis and Aunty Suzanne have paid these guys a visit to teach them all about the Kaurna seasons.

Aunty Suzanne: In the winter months we would move more towards the shelter and warmth. Now if it's stinkin' hot where we gonna go?

Instead of using dates to mark the change of a season they follow the cycle of plants, animals, water and the stars.

Uncle Lewis: We look at the stars we look at the plants, we look at the winds and so we look at all the indicators and that’s how we follow what’s going on.

With the help of the Bureau of Meteorology they've now created this Kaurna seasonal calendar to help other kids learn it too. There's Warltati which is summer when the sun is hot. Parnati, or autumn, when this star is near the moon. Winter is known as Kudlil which means "when the earth is washed". And spring, Wirltuti, that's when the eagle's foot or the southern cross is in this particular spot in the sky.

But while the Kaurna seasons are pretty similar to the ones we know there are hundreds of other Indigenous groups around the country that have very different ones to match their local weather patterns. For example, up north around the Tiwi islands there are 3 distinct seasonal changes. Jamutakari, the wet season, this begins when the Koels start to call and it means rain is on its way. Kumunupunari, the dry season of fire and smoke, when plants start to flower and possums are fat. And Tiyari, the season of hot weather and high humidity, when creeks start to dry up and mangrove worms are easy to find.

Meanwhile over in WA the Yawuru people have 6 different seasons. Mangala, when flies and insects are everywhere. Marrul, when the tides are high and sea animals are small. The flowering bloodwood indicates the start of Wirralburu. Barrgana, when fog covers the land. Birds start nesting during Wilburu and in Laja, the ground is hot and turtles are laying their eggs.

Back in the classroom these guys say that it's been pretty cool learning about Kaurna culture.

KID 1: Today I learnt that when the Kaurna people look up in the sky and they can tell by the stars what the season is.

KID 2: In summer they eat fish and in winter they eat other animals like possums

So, as we hit summer next month keep an eye out for some of the other signs that help show that a new season has sprung.

Did You Know?

Did you know, 'Spring' used to be called 'Springing Time'.

It was called that because it was at this time that plants would spring up from the ground.

Teacher Awards

There is only one week left to get your nominations in for the first annual BTN Teacher awards!

All it takes is a short video to put your favourite teacher in the running.

Just go to our website to upload your entry.

Sport

The Socceroos took on Honduras over the weekend in a fight to qualify for next year's World Cup but it wasn't quite the result they were hoping for!

Both sides were left goalless but the team reckons they still played well and are confident they'll be able to take the win during the return leg in Sydney this week.

Ange Postecoglou: We'll go hard. We'll put the pedal down and go as hard as we can for ninety, a hundred and twenty minutes. They're going to have to keep up with us.

Australia's just one win away from taking out the Women's Ashes! The four-day test against England finished in a draw but the Aussie team is already leading the series by two points.

Ellyse Perry was named player of the match after smashing an amazing double century then finishing on two hundred and thirteen not out. The highest ever score by an Aussie woman!

The teams will face off again on Friday night in the first of three Twenty 20 matches to round out the series.

The Aussies have won their first International Rules match against Ireland by ten points!

The sport's basically a mix of Aussie rules and Gaelic football and the players use a round ball to score, either by kicking through this soccer-style goal, or above it.

The Aussies managed to score two six-pointers in the back of the net. This one from Freo star Nat Fyfe.

And this brilliant tap from West Coast's Luke Shuey.

They're going to be hard to beat now the Aussies.

They'll play again in the last match of the series on Saturday night.

And finally, a wrap of some of the cool world records that have just been broken!

British inventor Richard Browning wowed crowds with his home-made jetpack and broke the record for the fastest ever flight in a body-controlled jet engine power suit.

He reached speeds of more than fifty kilometres per hour! Not quite up to iron man's standard yet, but it's still early days.

Meanwhile, this dizzying backflip session paid off for the Anastasini brothers. They managed thirty-two in thirty seconds beating the previous record by seven flips.

And hula hooping's difficult enough as it is but Yuya Yamada from Japan took it to a whole new level when he managed to get the biggest hula hoop ever spinning around his torso.

It has a circumference of more than five metres!

Reviving Gaelic

Reporter: Charlotte Batty

INTRO: Finally today. We're taking you to Ireland where some kids are using some famous songs to keep their traditional language, Irish Gaelic alive. Take a look.

They're tunes you've probably heard once or twice. But never quite like this.

STUDENTS: Hi BTN! We're TG Lurgan and we love singing our favourite songs in Gaelic.

Yup, singing along to these guys' covers might be a little trickier than usual because they're singing them all in Irish Gaelic!

Irish Gaelic, or just Irish as they call it, is the first official language of The Republic of Ireland. You see, up until the 18th century it was the main language spoken throughout the country. But over time English took over and Irish started to die out.

These days it's not spoken in many areas. And while lots of students still learn it at school they mostly speak English as their first language.

STUDENT: It is going down. Not as many people speak it anymore.

Lots of people are worried that if something isn't done now to save it the language could be lost for good. That's where these guys come in. They're part of a special summer school program in the Galway Gaeltacht one of the last places in Ireland where Irish is still spoken as a first language.

STUDENT: I'm bilingual but I'm more comfortable in the Irish language. Everybody I know speaks Irish so I speak Irish probably 80% of the time.

The program is all about taking famous songs and translating them into Irish. They then make their own music videos and upload them onto YouTube where they've racked up millions of views.

CIAN: Each year we get more and more ambitious and we try to make them better and bigger.

ANDI: It's such a great feeling to see the videos being so popular on YouTube because we work so hard on them during the three weeks, and to see such a good reaction from the public just makes everyone feel so great about it.

These guys reckon making Irish more popular is really important and they're hoping that their videos will encourage those with Irish blood in their veins to start using the language once again!

STIOFÁN: It's a great opportunity for teenagers to socialise with teens from around the country while also engaging with the Irish language.

ANDI: I think these music videos really encourage other young people to speak in Irish. My sister herself struggles with the spoken language and when she sees me and my brothers in these videos, she just takes it upon herself to learn them and asks me what these different words mean and then it just has her kind of know the language herself then.

These guys say they're proud to be doing their part to help this historical language live on.

Closer

And that's it for today. But there's always more to see and do on our website including our BTN Teacher Awards, nomination page and details on how you can download Kokoda VR!

Thanks for joining us and we'll see you next week for more BTN!

-----------------------

Episode 32

14th November 2017

Episode 32

14th November 2017

[pic]

Students will develop a deeper understanding of what the ozone layer is and why it’s important.

[pic]

Science – Year 4

Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions

Science – Years 5 & 6

Scientific knowledge is used to solve problems and inform personal and community decisions

▪

- What did you SEE in this video?

- What do you THINK about what you saw in this video?

- What does this video make your WONDER?

- What did you LEARN from this story?

- How did this story make you FEEL?

Episode 32

14th November 2017

[pic]

Students will investigate indigenous seasonal calendars and how they are similar or different to that of Australia’s European seasonal calendar.

[pic]

Geography – Year 4

The custodial responsibility Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have for Country/Place, and how this influences views about sustainability.

Science – Year 7

Predictable phenomena on Earth, including seasons and eclipses, are caused by the relative positions of the sun, Earth and the moon.

• What did you SEE in this video?

• What do you THINK about what you saw in this video?

• What does this video make your WONDER?

• What did you LEARN from this story?

• What was SURPRISING about this story?

1]

Indigenous seasonal calendars

Australia’s European seasonal calendar

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download