1. Where did the ants come from?
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2. What are we going to learn today?
How different people work together to stop the invasive ants from entering the country.
How important each of these roles are.
Seeing from another’s perspective.
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3. Let’s recap In our previous lesson, we
Found out where the top five invasive ant pests come from and how they arrive in the country.
The role of biosecurity and what we can do as a community to help.
Food, especially sweets attract ants.
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4. Stop the ants! Big Question:
How do you think you could stop the invasive ants from getting into the country?
Biosecurity is the name for protecting people and the environment from harmful organisms (like invasive ants)
Some key questions:
Do all countries have invasive ants? If not, pay more attention to goods coming in from countries that do.
What sorts of things do ants travel on? These are the things we should check especially carefully
How do we make travellers aware that they might be carrying invasive ants into the country?
How can we detect ants that have been overlooked?
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5. Activity Time! Role - Play
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6. Roles you will be playing
For today’s lesson, you will be role-playing one of the following roles:
Sailor on a cargo ship
Biosecurity Officer at Airport
Member of a village
A child playing in the park
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7. What you have to do Work together in groups of 4.
Discuss the different roles and what they do.
Share what you have learnt about how each role plays a part in stopping the ants.
Make a list of ways each role does to stop invasive ants getting into the country.
Record the ways in the graphic organiser provided.
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8. Roles Sailor on a cargo ship Biosecurity Officer at Airport
Member of a village
A child playing in the park
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9. Activity 2 Role-Play Class Discussion
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10. Role-Play Class Discussion
Your teacher will assign your group one or more role to share with the class.
You have 5 minutes to share what your role.
You can ask questions and add on to the role your friends were given.
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11. Sailor on a cargo ship
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12. Biosecurity Officer at Airport
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13. Member of a village
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14. A child playing in the park
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15. What we have learnt today
Explored in detail the different roles that stop the invasive ants from entering the country.
The importance of each role and how they all work together to stop invasive ants.
How to put ourselves in another person’s shoes and see from another’s perspective.
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16. See you next time!
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