Taminmin Middle School students launch Burning Issues. Photo: Julie Crough

Overarching learning outcomes for Burning Issues focus on:

Scientific literacy

• develop an enhanced understanding of current issues (burning regimes and carbon emissions) that involve implications of research, applications of science for future sustainability
• recognise that the work of contemporary scientists uses both traditional Indigenous knowledge and western scientific evidence that together enable us to make informed decisions

Information Literacy

• recognise need for information, locate and use information effectively

Critical thinking skills and appropriate technologies

• employ critical thinking skills in the evaluation and analysis of the information and its sources
• formulate logical conclusions and present those conclusions in an appropriate and effective way

Literacy

• communicate using a wide range of resources including text, visual, audio, and video sources