Outback Cinema

Key questions and understandings

• Our future: how do we burn for a sustainable future?
• What is the "two-ways of knowing" toolkit?

Traditional burning practices result in substantial carbon benefits. When the tropical savanna/open forests are not burnt periodically, massive fuel loads can build up and cause hot intensive wild fires devastate the country.

Learners could:

• use cause and effect diagrams to show the relationship between the seasons and traditional burning practices;
• explain the impact of traditional indigenous fire practices identifying the ecological, social/cultural and economic benefits;
• explain the carbon cycle highlighting the role of greenhouse gas;
• evaluate the NT carbon trading scheme using a Plus, Minus, Interesting organiser;
• justify the NT carbon trading scheme using scientific evidence;
• critically reflect on the impact of Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science working together for sustainability.
  
• critically evaluate the scientific evidence supporting the research as featured in Old Ways, New Directions (see extension activity below).