Students begin wrestling with real complexity — environmental trade-offs, land restoration, and how communities decide what to do with the resources beneath their feet. Multiple stakeholder perspectives introduced for the first time.
Year 6 asks students to weigh things up. Across three units, they trace their everyday lives back to the ground they came from — then confront the harder questions: can we take something from the earth and restore what's left, and who does it all belong to? It matters because a program that only celebrated the industry would deserve students' distrust; learning to hold benefit and consequence in the same hand is what makes their eventual choices, whichever way they go, genuinely informed.
Every unit arrives classroom-ready — full lesson sequences, slides, student workbooks and assessment rubrics, aligned to the revised Western Australian Curriculum, mandated from 2026.
"What natural resources do we use every single day without realising it?"
Students audit an ordinary day and trace everyday objects back to mined and extracted origins — the phone, the bike, the wiring in the walls. The industry stops being remote; it becomes breakfast-table close.
"Can we extract something from the earth and still leave the land healthy?"
The rehabilitation question, honestly posed: what does responsible extraction involve, what does restoration actually look like, and how do we judge whether it worked? Students weigh real consumer and land-use decisions against their environmental consequences.
"How do communities, companies and Country share WA's resources?"
Communities, companies and Country all hold claims on the same ground. Students encounter each perspective — including Aboriginal custodianship, developed with Aboriginal education advisors — and practise holding more than one truth at once.
One page of guidance per unit. Everything else is done.
Lesson sequences, decks, workbooks and rubrics included.
Aligned to the revised WA Curriculum every school teaches from 2026.
Worker videos, site content and industry panels arranged through the program.